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  • Football season could begin again without state ruling

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    It has been nearly a year since local football foes delivered a petition to the state Department of Education’s Division of Controversies and Disputes.    The petition finally was the focus May 27 of a hearing before Judge Joseph F. Martone of the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), to which it was…

  • Stephen Poandl Sr.

          Stephen A. Poandl Sr., 85, of Beaver Dam, Ky., died Saturday, May 31, at Owensboro Mercy Health System.       He was born in Manhattan, N.Y., and was a former resident of Monmouth Junction. He was a supervisor for Columbian Carbon before retiring. He was a member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Beaver Dam. An Army…

  • Deeper Well

    Ken Lelen’s vintage music harkens back to an era when the pace was slower, and when music could be heard without distraction. By: Susan Van Dongen    The instruments are old, the songs are even older, but the singer is anything but old-fashioned.    Ken Lelen is certainly not a misty-eyed, free-spirited troubadour when it comes to…

  • Plugged leaks save Pennington 20,000 gallons of water a day

    Borough crews, in tandem with a firm specializing in leak detection, found and plugged three leaks in the water system last month. By John Tredrea    Pennington’s ongoing program of plugging leaks in its public water system produced good results last month, borough Councilman David Garber said during Monday night’s council meeting.    Mr. Garber said borough…

  • Editorial: BGIA contract is a waste of tax money

    EDITORIAL: The plan to keep BGIA throws important tax dollars out the window.    The Township Council should have cut its losses Tuesday.    Instead, it has agreed to keep BGIA as its insurance broker at least through the end of the year — a move we find wasteful and unnecessary — paying it $95,000 for 2003…

  • June 5, 6:25 p.m.: Dispatches

    Read this week’s Dispatches. By: Hank Kalet    Read this week’s Dispatches on media consolidation.

  • Letter: BGIA contract is wasteful

    To the editor:     You constantly hear politicians of every stripe pledging to cut government waste, yet our taxes keep rising. In South Brunswick, one area of waste is the pending awarding of a no-bid contract to Business and Government Insurance Agency as a health insurance consultant.    Let’s go back. Prior to 1997, South Brunswick’s…

  • Voters pick hopefuls for fall races

    Seven area municipalities held local primaries; only two were contested By: Eve Collins and Scott Morgan    Voters in local towns Tuesday night chose their local, county and state party representatives for this November’s general election. While most of the primary races featured unopposed local candidates, those in Mansfield and Fieldsboro offered voters choices.    There is…

  • June 5, 6:26 p.m.: On patriotism

    Some thoughts on patriotism. By: Hank Kalet    Some thoughts on patriotism, courtesy of some greater minds than mind. (I offer these after reading the nonsensical definition of patriotism on ProBush.com: "PATRIOT, n. One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority." I’d say that is a better definition of fascism, but who am I,…