Category: archives
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New high school needed soon
To the editor Hillsborough High School is too small for the growing number of kids and adding on to it is just not going to be enough. Every year with the increasing number of students the township only adds on to the original building. There have been two new additions to the high school in…
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April 24 edition of the Register News
Mary C. Dekis, Theresa A. Daily, Dorothy Witkowski, Dixie Vierling, Margaret H. Havas, Albert Hamlin, Carl Moore, James Vaneekhoven, By: Mary C. Dekis HAMILTON Mary C. Dekis, 79, of Whiting, died Sunday, April 20, at her daughter’s home in Hamilton. She was born in Robbinsville where she lived most of her life before moving…
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Easter egg hunt
Combined Charities has its annual egg hunt at the Lambertville American Legion Saturday, April 19. As the horn sounds, Rebecca Godown, 4, of Lambertville charges to find her share of the Easter eggs during the hunt at the Legion Saturday.
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Theodore Blum
HILLSBOROUGH Theodore Blum, 76, died April 13 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. Mr. Blum was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and grew up in New York City before moving to Hillsborough in 1956. He was a career 4-H agent, serving as Somerset County agent for 29 years. Mr. Blum was also professor emeritus…
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John Rogers
DICKSON, Tenn. John Franklin Rogers, 81, died April 12 in Dickson, Tenn. Mr. Rogers was born in Brookport, Il., and lived most of his life in Hillsborough, where he owned and operated the Hillsborough Chevron. Mr. Rogers served with the U.S. Army in World War ll, and was a member of the VFW. Survivors…
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EDITORIAL: Life in America finally getting back to normal
By: Now that the war in Iraq is winding down (we hope), the weather has turned (we hope), the potholes are getting fixed (we hope), municipalities and school districts are struggling with defeated budgets and President Bush is heading out to Middle America to press his case for tax cuts, life finally appears to be…
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Explain your vote to schools
Editorial By: Mae Rhine You, the voters, have spoken and, in the process, rejected three proposed school budgets those by West Amwell and Stockton elementary schools and the South Hunterdon Regional High School district. Your work is not over, however. Now it’s time to let the district know exactly what you think needs to…
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Lambertville adopts $3 million budget
By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE With little fanfare and no comment from the handful of residents present, the City Council on Monday passed a municipal budget of $3,011,368 that will result in a lower tax rate for homeowners. The owner of a house assessed at the citywide average of $211,515 will pay $8 less in…
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OBITUARIES, April 22, 2003
Theodore Weiss, Barbara R. Lependorf, Richard T. Servis, Tessie G. Weisberg. Theodore Weiss Professor, poet and literary critic Theodore Weiss of Princeton, an award-winning poet, editor, literary critic and emeritus professor at Princeton University, died Tuesday after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86. In addition to serving as a teacher at the…
