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  • Girls lacrosse team drops last four tilts

    Girls lacrosse By: John E. Powers    The season ended in rain and mist for the Hopewell Valley Central High School girls lacrosse team Friday. It also ended with disappointment and thoughts of what could have been.    The team’s scheduled last game of the season against Montgomery was called off early in the first half because…

  • Veterans unveil memorial

    Completed park to be dedicated in November By: Vanessa S. Holt     BORDENTOWN CITY — The first piece of the Bordentown Veterans Memorial was unveiled Saturday in a groundbreaking and Memorial Day ceremony that was not dampened by the threat of rain.     Construction of a new memorial and a paved park area will begin…

  • Week of May 29

    James A. Murphy    WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP — James A. Murphy, 76, died May 19 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born and raised in Jessup, Pa., he resided in the Hamilton/Trenton area since 1952.    He was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving on the USS Tucson and in the Korean War.    Mr.…

  • Cards fall to Rams

    Baseball By: Jim Green    One day after finally notching its first victory, the Lawrence High School baseball team reverted to the form it displayed throughout its 0-17 start.    The Cardinals picked up only four hits and committed four fielding errors May 20, as they dropped to 1-18 with a 12-0 loss to Hightstown.    "I was…

  • DOT won’t provide I-95 noise barrier

    The department has no plans to fund a half-mile long barrier along the section of highway bordering the Long Acres neighborhood. By: Lea Kahn    The on-again, off-again noise barrier for the Long Acres neighborhood, which borders Interstate Highway 95, is off again, according to state Department of Transportation officials.    The DOT has no plans to…

  • Trout lily season, unlike fishing season, is over all too soon

    SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By Heather Lovett    Trout lily season might be easy to miss if it didn’t happen to coincide with the opening of fishing season in early April. I can always count on the newspaper printing an article or two about dedicated anglers rising before dawn to get first crack at newly-stocked trout streams,…

  • Rayner is overseeing Hopewell business

    Search is on for new certified municipal clerk and chief financial officer. By Ruth Luse    At a special meeting held May 19, Hopewell Borough Council hired Pete Rayner of Skillman as a consultant to take over the job of Hilary Fortenbaugh, who resigned recently as clerk and chief financial officer.    Mr. Rayner will serve in…

  • Final Hillsborough school cuts approved

    New plan keeps additional teachers needed at high school. By:Sally Goldenberg    The Hillsborough Board of Education reinstated five new high school teachers in the 2003-04 budget, which was approved by a 7-1 vote Tuesday night.    When a budget ad hoc committee — comprising board members and district administrators — initially mapped out $1.16 million in…

  • Gathering to remember nation’s fallen soldiers

    VFW holds Memorial Day festivities. By: Rebecca Tokarz    Nearly 40 South Brunswick residents closed their umbrellas and shook the excess raindrops from their jackets as they rushed into the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9111 in Kendall Park on Monday morning to escape the downpour and pay tribute to military men and women.    With the…