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  • May 29, 5:36 p.m.: The Chicks stand up in Dixie

    Sold-out shows and asupportive public mark tour. By: Hank Kalet    Here’s a review in Rock and Rap Confidential of the Dixie Chicks current tour and commentary on the nonsense that engulged the band after lead singer Natalie Maines spoke her mind about the Bush administration. I’m not a fan of their music, but I’ve become…

  • Softball team gets no-hit in sectional quarterfinals

    Softball By: Jim Green    Lawrence High School softball coach Pete Cino could only watch as Hamilton ace Melissa Hodge mowed his team down for the second time this season.    Hodge, who hurled a no-hitter in a regular-season meeting with the Cardinals on April 28, held Lawrence hitless again last Thursday. Only this time, the Cardinals…

  • Search for new Hopewell Valley schools superintendent is in high gear

    The district has received 37 applications, 24 of them from New Jersey, for the superintendent’s job. By John Tredrea    With Hopewell Valley schools Superintendent Robert Sopko set to retire Aug. 1, the school board is working intensely on an effort to hire someone to replace him before the 2003-2004 school year begins.    Leading the way…

  • Manville levels trails made for bike riders

    Riders say borough broke promise. By:Alec Moore    A Branchburg man who spearheaded efforts to save Manville’s BMX dirt bike trails says he was deceived by Mayor Angelo Corradino, but the mayor says the ramps and obstacles were too unsafe to stay.    Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Collins, who in late 2001 led a group of local youths protesting…

  • Frances Wyzinski

       HILLSBOROUGH — Frances "Mickey" (Bradley) Wyzinski died Thursday, May 24, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 84.    Born in Manville, she was a lifelong resident of the borough until moving to Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough in 1996.    Mrs. Wyzinski was a World War II veteran of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps in the…

  • Women in Medicine Magazine:

       Lessons of the Heart. . . Page 3  For cardiologist Banu Mahalingam, sound advice and compassion go a long way in preventing heart disease. Modern Midwives. . . Page 10  Nurse-midwives of Princeton Midwifery Care aim to nurture and sustain joyous mothers and babies. For the Children. . . Page 14  Smiles go a long way…

  • Edition of May 29, 2003

    Helen G. Mills    Helen G. Mills, 95, died Friday in Dover, Del.    Born in Hopewell Township, Mrs. Mills had been a resident of Delaware.    A 1927 graduate of Rider College, she was a teacher in Frenchtown and Chesapeake City, Md., and worked for Dupont Corp. in Wilmington, Del., retiring in 1972.    Mrs. Mills was a…

  • Bugler plays at county salute to Korean vets

       Manville resident James O’Reilly helped a crowd of about 1,200 pay tribute to Korean War veterans May 20, performing taps at a county the event for the veterans.    Mr. O’Reilly of Dominick Street is the bugler for Manville VFW Post 2290. He has been periodically performing the "Star Spangled Banner" in front of his home…

  • Opposition kills Indian Run plans

    Upper Freehold Planning Board hears second conceptual hearing for proposed Breza Road development. By: Cynthia Koons    UPPER FREEHOLD — The concept plan for the 375-unit residential and commercial Indian Run development dissolved Tuesday night when the Upper Freehold Planning Board sided with the dozens of residents in attendance who expressed their opposition to the project.…