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  • Lawrence seeks veteran volunteers

    Planning committee organizes annual township events. By: Lea Kahn    The Memorial Day parade and the Flag Day and Veterans Day ceremonies have gone off seamlessly for many years, thanks to the township’s Veterans Events Planning Committee.    The group also worked to put together the ceremonies that remembered the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror…

  • Colts rally but fall short in playoffs

    Fine campaign ends at 10-1 By: John E. Powers        The end came with the Manville Colts on the move, with quarterback Mike Knitowski looking desperately for one last open receiver as time ran out on the Colts in their Garden State Bowl Tournament game with Union Sunday at Jack Gerber Field.    Union (11-1), the…

  • Lady Mustangs see title hopes blown away

    Heavy winds contribute to loss in CJ 1 final By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High girls’ soccer team took a gamble before last Thursday’s Central Jersey Group 1 championship game even began. Unfortunately, the calculated risk didn’t work out for the Lady Mustangs and visiting New Providence left Ned Panfile Stadium with a 2-0…

  • Farm purchase ends 15 years of litigation in township

    Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders authorized the purchase of sod farm in Springfield Township. By: Scott Morgan    SPRINGFIELD — For almost 15 years, township planners, politicians and environmental watchdogs held their collective breath. Last week, they all exhaled.    Last Wednesday, Nov. 12, the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders authorized the purchase of the…

  • EDITORIAL: Maintain ban on religious displays on town property

    EDITORIAL: Allowing displays would open too large a can of worms.    The Township Council was correct when it decided to prohibit religious displays on public property in 2000.    We think it should stick to its guns now.    Rabbi Levi Asimov of the new Chabad of South Brunswick on Riva Road asked the council last week…

  • LETTERS: A taxpayer responds to board president

    To the editor:    This letter is from a taxpayer’s desk in South Brunswick and is in response to "From the President’s Desk" by Robert Long, which was recently published in this newspaper.    That four-column propaganda piece contained some truly amazing comments. For one thing, he used the column to complain about the recent attempts by…

  • LETTERS: Defending Bush from columnist

    To the editor:    Hank Kalet’s fevered hand wringing over what he sees as President Bush’s beyond-the-pale shortcomings cries out for a response. Mr. Kalet is certainly entitled to his own opinions but he’s not entitled to his own facts with which to back up his opinions.    Mr. Kalet bashes the president for simultaneously being clueless…

  • Municipal Alliance makes plans for Valley’s Night Off

    With the support of local school officials, sports leaders, parents, community and religious leaders, all sports practices, classes, homework and community meetings will be canceled on March 2, 2004.    As the holiday season approaches, the School Sector of the Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance has been busy planning a gift for community – a night when…

  • LEF making education fun, creative and affordable

    The group has funded many innovative programs at both Lambertville Public School and South Hunterdon Regional High School. By: Linda Seida    It’s hard to say who’s getting the biggest charge out of the creative work being done in the name of education — the students having fun with unique learning projects, the teachers devising the…