Category: archives

  • 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.…

  • County to produce methane energy

    Landfill gases could be harnessed for power By: Scott Morgan     FLORENCE — Beneath the Burlington County landfill’s heaps of waste, the methane oozes. Collected by a web of pipes, the gas is funneled to a group of flares where it is burned away. No pollution, no mess and no profit.     That, however, may…

  • Hopewell is eliminated from states

    Softball By: Mike Molaro    Fifty-degree temperature and showers aren’t exactly the ideal conditions in which to play a state tournament softball game.    But 10th-seeded Hopewell Valley Central High School and second-seeded Montgomery had to face each other last Thursday in the quarterfinals of the New Jersey State Athletic Association’s Central Jersey Group II bracket.    Although…

  • Veterans still deserve our thoughts

    Editorial Who knew we would need a memorial for the Lawrence Township Memorial Day Parade?    Sadly, that’s the case as the township opted Friday to cancel the annual holiday event due to the unrelenting rain forecast for the weekend.    It seemed like the inevitable decision. Township Superintendent of Recreation Steven Groeger explained this week that…

  • Letters to the Editor, May 29, 2003

    Donations don’t require bids To the editor:     I am writing in response to the letter written by Charles C. Townsend Jr., which appeared in the Hopewell Valley News on May 22. I would like to state, even as I write this response on May 23, that my office had not received his letter.    The…

  • May 29, 5:40 p.m.: An exercise in incredulity

    Again, I’ll ask, where are those weapons of mass destruction? By: Hank Kalet    Either the Bush administration thinks the American public is stupid or gullible or the folks in the executive branch are a bit dense themselves.    That’s the only conclusion I can draw from their latest statements on the That’s the newest line from…

  • Last refuge for wildlife at edge of Kendall Park

    Residents push for tract to be preserved. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    Birdcalls and the occasional plop of a frog into a puddle punctuate the quiet in the 101-acre tract considered the last large parcel of open space in Kendall Park.    Nearby residents, who have petitioned the township and the county to preserve the land as open…