Category: archives
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Hillsborough 16-u teams remain atop standings
Team No. 2 bats boom in two victories By: Rudy Brandl One of Hillsborough’s two entries in the Senior 16-and-under Softball League will receive a first-round bye in next week’s playoffs. Hillsborough Hustle No. 1 (6-0), which entered the final week of the regular season in first place, had destiny in its own grasp.…
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Retirement bash held for Bob Sopko
Hopewell Valley schools superintendent retires post Aug. 1. A retirement party was held Friday at the Hyatt Regency, Princeton, for retiring schools superintendent, Robert Sopko. Dr. Sopko will leave Hopewell Valley on Aug. 1, at which time he will be replaced by Dominic "Nick" Lorenzetti, who will take the post the same day. Mr. Lorenzetti…
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Moving away cut property taxes
To the editor Congratulations to the Hillsborough Township Committee! According to the July 10 Hillsborough Beacon, they filled several rooms with irate taxpayers. Where, oh, where are you taxpayers at other meetings? Taxes are one area that will draw a crowd. Politicians knowingly will campaign under providing a reduced tax burden to get elected and…
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Post 414 finishes year by winning two of three
Post 414 baseball By: Jim Green After struggling for nearly the entire American Legion baseball season, the Lawrence Post 414 squad finished on a high note with wins in two of its last three games. Lawrence sandwiched wins over Hopewell Post 339 and Mitchell Davis Post 182 around a loss to Trenton Post 93, finishing…
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Officials debate Mozloom successor
Washington Township Committee deliberates on replacement for Rep. Jack Mozloom. By: Cynthia Koons WASHINGTON No matter who is selected to fill the empty seat left by Republican Jack Mozloom on the Washington Township Committee, someone will be dissatisfied. With some members of the Republican Municipal Committee requesting a revote and Township Committeeman Dave Fried…
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Mayor pleads innocent to witness tampering
Mayor Malloy of New Hanover Township charged with instructing a witness to lie to grand jury. By: Eve Collins NEW HANOVER Patrick G. Malloy, mayor of New Hanover Township for the past 37 years, has been charged with witness tampering in connection with the investigation of a federally funded contract awarded to his brother.…
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‘Safe’ zones incomplete, officials say
All of Route 1 in township should be designated. By: Lea Kahn and Rebecca Tokarz Designation of two small sections of Route 1 as "safe corridors" under a new state law have township officials wondering why the remaining seven-mile stretch was excluded. The state made a 10-mile stretch of the highway between Franklin Corner Road…
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Borough boy’s wish granted
Children’s Wish Foundation International presents Fieldsboro boy with an all-terrain vehicle. By: Scott Morgan FIELDSBORO Not too long ago, the radio commercials broke Karen Lubbers’ heart. The commercials featured children, often desperately ill, who had been granted wishes they otherwise had little hope of seeing come true. So Ms. Lubbers gave her money and…
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David Jones
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING Found on the web at famousamericans.net as presented by Virtualology and mistakenly titled Dacid (sic) Jones is "Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography," edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889. Interestingly, the site’s text requests corrections due to overt as well as OCR transfer…
