Category: archives
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Rhythms of the Night: a dream come true
John Pettoni’s new restaurant offers live music By:Roger Alvarado Bloomingdale Drive resident John Pettoni had a vision. He would transform a long-abandoned and dilapidated building ravaged by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 into a beautifully designed pub, restaurant and banquet hall and top it off by filling it with the Rhythms of the Night. What was…
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March 4, 6:06 p.m.: The jobs go away
A column from the Progressive Populist. By: Hank Kalet Here’s my column from the Progressive Populist on the outsourcing problem.
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Teen goes to work for township
High school senior helping in administrative offices By:Roger Alvarado Over the next four months one senior at Hillsborough High School will get to leave school a little early each day so he can start a new job learning the ins and outs of municipal government. Township Administrator and Acting Clerk Kevin P. Davis has…
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Local candidates file in school board races
Candidates file for local School board elections, which will take place on April 20. By: Eve Collins and Scott Morgan The stage is set for this year’s local school board races, as candidates for the area’s multitude of seats filed Monday. School board elections will take place on April 20. BORDENTOWN REGIONAL There are three…
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Father of HoVal basketball captain dies after collapsing during tourney game
Decision not to replay first-round playoff game was made out of respect for the family of team Captain Jeff Molinelli, whose father, John, suffered a fatal heart attack as he was photographing the Bulldogs from the sidelines. By John Tredrea The NJSIAA Group III Central boys basketball tournament game suspended Tuesday night after a team…
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Letters to the Editor, March 4, 2003
Traffic task force needed To the editor and Hopewell Township Mayor Vanessa Sandom: Created in 1996, the Mayors’ Task Force on Traffic and Trucking has remained a powerful and successful institution through the tenure of six Hopewell Township mayors. The task force has been responsible for a 47 percent reduction of truck traffic on…
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Lady Dawgs prepare for tournament
Girls basketball By: Jim Green The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls basketball team already had 13 wins and the Colonial Valley Conference Patriot Division title wrapped up. The Lady Bulldogs’ biggest win of the year, though, might have been No. 14. Hopewell was coming off back-to-back losses in the Mercer County Tournament when it…
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POLICE BLOTTER
The manager of the Claremont Towers apartment building on Eves Drive reported that seven large floor mats were stolen from 574 Auten Road and 776 Eves Drive between 5 p.m. Feb. 18 and 8:30 a.m. Feb. 19. Three floor mats from the lobby area of 574 Auten Road measuring 20 feet by 3 feet were…
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NBC wrestlers dominate District 25 Tournament
By: Sean Moylan The most pleasant and everlasting image of Saturday’s District 25 wrestling Tournament at Steinert was the sight of Northern Burlington’s 160-pounder Ryan Buchanan and Trenton Central’s Tyronne White embracing only seconds after the Greyhounds’ powerful grappler had pinned White to win the championship. Over the past couple of years, the two grapplers…
