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  • Coming up big for pantry

    Last minute food donations help the township’s food pantry provide meals for 129 families. By: Rebecca Tokarz    The township’s food pantry has made it through another holiday season, this time with food to spare, officials said.    A large amount of last-minute food donations from township schools and organizations allowed the pantry to provide holiday meals…

  • District extends contract of interim schools chief

    Interim superintendant set to help with transition of leadership once the new superintendant takes office. By: Rebecca Tokarz    Interim Superintendent Judith A. Ferguson will step down when the new superintendent takes over in March, but she’ll stay with the district until July 1 to help the district’s new leader with the transition, the school board…

  • For the Dec. 25 issue

    Deborah Bocock, Julia Maksimow, Hilda Gifford, Mary Bishop, William F. Earley. Deborah Bocock    BORDENTOWN — Deborah Lynn Sutton Bocock, 51, died Monday, Dec. 15 in Robert Wood Johnson Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she lived most of her life in the Trenton area. She was employed by the Yardville National Bank for over 10…

  • Gathering food for the needy

    South Hunterdon Regional High School’s chapter of Future Farmers of America packaged potatoes to be distributed to food pantries by Farmers Against Hunger. South Future Farmers of America members Rob Brown (left) and Jay Wilson work together to package potatoes Dec. 18.

  • Township gets aid for new ambulance

    Township recieves $50,000 through the Local Domestic Preparedness Equipment grant. By: Rebecca Tokarz    The township will get some help paying for a new set of wheels for one of its first aid squads, officials announced last week.    The township will receive $50,000 through a statewide Local Domestic Preparedness Equipment grant to go toward the purchase…

  • A jaunty jingle for the holidays

    FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster    I wanted to write a cuddly piece this week. I apologize. That is not what popped out of my head when I sat down at the keyboard. Here is my holiday offering in the form of a song.    It’s not that I’m saying, "Bah humbug!" You might not believe this,…

  • Editorial-Dec. 25, 2003

    Take time to remember our troops By: Mae Rhine    Today, Christmas Day, would be a good time to remember our troops deployed all over the world.    One of our own, Mitchell Ege of Lambertville, will be sent to Kuwait for 13 months early next year.    And there are many others serving in Iraq and other…

  • Letters to the Editor

    For the Dec. 25 issue A memorial poem for two classmates    Editor’s Note: The following is a poem written by Paul Ford Green in memory of two Florence Township Memorial High School classmates who passed away two years ago this week.    To the editor:    J&R: Emotions     thou have gone    above is as far    as…

  • Insurance to cover ambulance service

    Washington Township Fire Department will bill medical insurance carriers for cost of ambulance services. By: Sarah Winkelman    WASHINGTON — The township Fire Department will begin billing medical insurance carriers for ambulance service in an effort to recoup some of the cost of transporting people to area hospitals.    The measure was approved by the Board of…