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  • Hopewell Valley Memorial Day observances set Sunday, Monday

    Hopewell and Pennington slate annual parades. By Ruth Luse    On Saturday, May 24, 6:30 p.m., there will be a Memorial Day picnic for Hopewell Business Association members at Jolly Leigh’s house on Princeton Avenue in Hopewell, next to the Citgo station.    Bring a covered dish and lawn chair(s). Fireworks will follow later that evening.    For…

  • SBHS errors lead to early exit from state baseball tourney

    By: James McKeever    Losing a one-run game to get eliminated from the state tournament was tough enough to handle.    But what really disappointed and frustrated the South Brunswick High School baseball team was how it lost to Middletown North on Monday in the opening round of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV playoffs.    Three errors…

  • Assessments to be frozen

    State orders new program be implemented by 2005 By:Alec Moore    Homeowners in town will get a break from the county’s rolling reassessment program, next year, as a new system for calculating property values is put in place.    Beginning next year, the assessed valuations of all properties in town will be temporarily frozen at their current…

  • Viking softball team ousted from GMC tournament

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    SOUTH PLAINFIELD — Two different days, two different tournaments, same outcome.    The 2003 season ended for the South Brunswick High School softball team this week as it was knocked out of both the state and county tournaments. The Lady Vikings lost to Middletown North 3-0 on Tuesday in NJSIAA Central Jersey…

  • Edition of May 22, 2003

    Luke Anam Gallagher Ragoonath    Luke Anam Gallagher Ragoonath, infant son of Suzanne Gallagher and Bobby Ragoonath, died in Capital Health System, Mercer Campus, on May 7.    Private graveside services were held in Pennington Cemetery. Stephen Munson Elliott    Stephen Munson Elliott, 22, of Ewing Township died Saturday from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.    Born in…

  • A good move towardsafer rental housing

    EDITORIAL: Proposed ordinance may help preventfires such as the one that killed Stephen Balint    Two events that occurred on May 12 may help Manville become a safer community in the coming months.    Although not directly related, the move to introduce an ordinance allowing the borough to recoup from landlords money spent supporting evicted tenants and…

  • Township zoners hear plans for Easy Street site

    Applicant proposes new building with about 5,000 square feet of retail and office space. By Marianne Hooker    At its May 7 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment heard a request for a use variance for the site of the former Easy Street restaurant and bar, located on Route 31.    A decision on this…

  • Cardinals return to form in state tournament win

    Softball By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School softball team could not have picked a better time to rediscover its game.    The ninth-seeded Cardinals defeated eighth-seeded North Brunswick 3-2 Tuesday in the first round of the Central Jersey Group III section of the state tournament. Lawrence, which dropped four in a row earlier this month,…

  • Neighborhood watch?

    Residents nab man charged with damaging their cars. By:Alec Moore    A Somerville resident was charged with criminal mischief after he was chased down by the owner of one of the vehicles he allegedly damaged, police say    A 61-year-old man, who allegedly vandalized two cars and fled in his pickup truck, was chased on foot by…