Category: archives
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Harren: School construction on track
Washington Township middle and high school contruction is on schedule according to Superintendent Paul Harren. By: Cynthia Koons WASHINGTON Pond Road Middle School will open up with three new wings at the end of next month and the foundation for Robbinsville High School will be in place before the new school year begins. Summer…
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Taking on a challenge
Neighborhood organizes to help foster children By:John Patten When everything goes according to a plan, one might say it’s a "win-win" situation, but for a group of 14 Rohill residents, a recent project was definitely a "win-win-WIN." In this case, WIN stands for Women in the Neighborhood, a moniker selected by the close-knit group that…
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Students create book of Upper Freehold
The notebook will be used to help identify scenic roads in the hope that the state will designate areas of the township as a scenic corridor. By: Sarah Winkelman </ UPPER FREEHOLD Like many areas of the state, the landscape of Upper Freehold has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. In an effort to…
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Maureen Barney
HILLSBOROUGH Maureen M. Barney died Friday, July 25, in Intergrated Health Services at Somerset Valley in Bridgewater. She was 82. Born in London, England, she was formerly of New Providence and Budd Lake before moving to Hillsborough two years ago. Mrs. Barney was a homemaker. She was a veteran of the British Army during…
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Clever barn swallows will knock your socks off
SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By Heather Lovett The barn swallows have been knocking our socks off recently, and I don’t mean dazzling us with their aerial displays, although swallows are certainly first-class fliers. No, I mean literally knocking our socks off but first, some background. Every year when they return from wintering in the tropics,…
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A night out with the Boss
RUDE AWAKENING By: Rudy Brandl What do a bunch of sportswriters do on a Saturday night in the summer time? How about go to a Bruce Springsteen concert? All last week, as heavy rain fell on Central Jersey wiping out all the summer league softball action, I wondered how I could work a Bruce concert…
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Quilted Plot
Plays-in-the-Park remembers ‘Ragtime.’ By: Stuart Duncan Ragtime, as you may know, was adapted for the stage after having first appeared as an acclaimed E.L. Doctorow novel in 1975, and a not-so-admired movie in 1981. The work is a reverie of life in and around New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1906, crammed with characters real and imagined,…
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July 31, 5:40 p.m.: Marriage is a private matter
Gay marriage is not the government’s business. By: Hank Kalet President George W. Bush, a slew of conservative politicians across the globe and the Pope are making it clear that they think civilization will be endangered if gays are allowed to marry. My response to them is this: Get over it. I’ll be honest, I…
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Stormy Horizons
New Hope, Pa., painter Rye Tippett finds big sky country within our midst. By: Amy Brummer New Hope, Pa., painter Rye Tippett learned to capture gorgeous hues by studying the techniques of Renaissance and pre-Raphaelite artists. Mr. Tippett rarely titles his work. When the crisp blue of a winter sky gives way to a moody…
