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  • Surprise honor for Lawrence serviceman

    Tunnard among vets to be recognized Saturday. By: Lea Kahn    Being honored for doing one’s job is by turns flattering and humbling, said township resident Andrew Tunnard.    A lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves, he was called to active duty earlier this year in anticipation of the war with Iraq. He spent three months…

  • Halloween caps diner’s anniversary

    Bea’s Luncheonette celebrating 25 years on Main Street in Manville. By: Beth Kressel    Twenty-five is a special number for Wendy Meszaros, owner of Bea’s Luncheonette on South Main Street.    In 1978, 25 years ago, her mother opened Bea’s Luncheonette. That’s also the year that her eldest son, Carl Lessing, was born.    And Ms. Meszaros dates…

  • Pee Wees lay claim to CJ title

    By: Rich Fisher    It couldn’t have been planned better.    After the South Brunswick PAL Pop Warner Pee Wee football team lost to Piscataway in early October, the players and coaches discussed matters.    "As a team, we set a goal that we wanted to win our next five games, come back and play Piscataway and win…

  • Hopewell Valley woman, boys charged with burglary, theft

    Charged with forcibly entering a Cortland Avenue home by breaking in a back door Oct. 27 are Kimberly Johnson, 18, of Lafayette Avenue, Titusville, and a 15-year-old Hopewell Township boy and 17-year-old Pennington boy. By John Tredrea    An 18-year-old Titusville woman and two boys — one from Hopewell Township and one from Pennington — have…

  • Letter: Supermarket needed not another CVS

    To the editor:     The Kendall Park Shopping Center (a.k.a. Town Place Shopping Center) needs to get a new supermarket like Acme to move in instead of another CVS or a replacement for the already extra unnecessary CVS.    In the Franklin Town Center/Stop and Shop shopping center there is a CVS. There is a free-standing…

  • Stanley Stanley

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Stanley T. Stanley died Oct. 28 in Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield. He was 88.    He was born and raised in Bayonne and lived in Westfield for more than 50 years before moving to Hillsborough four years ago.    Mr. Stanley owned and operated Acme Express in Newark and Trenton for more…

  • Adherence to sensible historic preservation ethic is part of being a good neighbor

    GUEST OPINION By Richard W. Hunter    I write in response to the Guest Opinion column by Samuel C. Leeper printed in the Oct. 23 issue of the Hopewell Valley News. Mr. Leeper offers a rambling and ill-informed tirade aimed principally at the idea of historic preservation and more specifically at the township’s Historic Preservation Commission,…

  • Field hockey squad preps for states

    Field hockey By: Steve Feitl    Just as one set of title hopes expired this past week, the Lawrence High School field hockey team is preparing to pursue another.    The Cardinals (11-3-2) were dispatched from the Mercer County Tournament last week with a 3-2 loss to eventual-champion Allentown in double overtime of the semifinal contest.    But…

  • Chiefs oust Vikings from GMC volleyball tournament

      By: Rich Fisher    It’s one thing to be focused and psyched up, it’s another to be overly-focused and overly-psyched.    That may have been a problem for the South Brunswick High volleyball team in Wednesday’s Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament semifinals. Facing a Piscataway team they had beaten twice during the regular season, the second-seeded Vikings…