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  • Council won’t hire police dispatchers

    Officers promoted; Peltack will serve as new captain By:Alec Moore    Borough Council rejected a motion to hire two full-time police dispatchers Monday.    The motion was made by Councilman Mike Polak and backed by fellow Republican council members Susan Asher and Martin Wierzba. Mayor Angelo Corradino and council Democrats Ted Petrock, Senga Allan and Tom Weiss…

  • Parking fees show misplaced priorities

    To the editor    Several parents and students were outraged and surprised to learn that the parking fee for students at Hillsborough High School has doubled this year, to $70, which is quite a lot of money for many people.    Considering that Jersey teens are the last to be able to obtain full driving privileges, and…

  • Construction manager gives Hopewell Valley school projects report

    Central High School is focus. By: John Tredrea    A major expansion project at Hopewell Valley Central High School, under way for months, is progressing satisfactorily, construction manager David Tillou told the school board March 17.    The $10 million project includes a new auditorium. "The ceiling is up in the auditorium now," Mr. Tillou told the…

  • Cartoon belittles Iraq mission

    To the editor    The illustration on the editorial page of your newspaper showing four U.S. servicemen raising an oil derrick is offensive.    The cartoon belittles the accomplishment of the Marines that fought the Japanese in the Pacific to preserve our freedom in the last century.    It also suggests the current task of removing an evil…

  • LIFESTYLE: In the swing of things

    Community Education students put on their dancing shoes and cut a rug. By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Wearing an enormous smile and a white cap angled just so, Karen Dreisbach followed her partner in rocking sideways to the up-tempo music that filled the gym of the Dayton School.    With the suppleness of those who have been…

  • Iraq war in Lawrence residents’ thoughts

    Numerous opinions vocalized at town forum. By: Lea Kahn    Close to 60 people — men and women, young and old — turned out Friday night to speak their piece on the world’s lack of peace, while attending a town forum on the Iraqi conflict held at the Lawrence High School cafeteria.    The meeting, sponsored by…

  • State trooper to be stationed at Allentown High School campus

    Police presence not motivated by terrorism concerns or growing campus violence. By: Cynthia Koons    UPPER FREEHOLD — In a time of an increased law enforcement presence throughout the region, Allentown High School students will see an armed, on-duty state trooper on campus full time beginning next week.    "We had applied for a school resource officer…

  • Republicans pick candidates

    Bob Wagner and Carl Suraci to run in November; Dems to name candidates after April 6 caucus By:Alec Moore    Bob Wagner and Carl Suraci received the nod from local GOP officials to run in this year’s race for the Township Committee seats currently held by Democrats Joe Tricarico and Sonya Anne Martin.    A victory by…

  • Goy From the Moy

    Poet Paul Muldoon celebrates his Irish roots, Jewish marriage, passion for language and life in New Jersey. By: Ilene Dube    A reader of Moy Sand and Gravel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22), Paul Muldoon’s latest collection of poems, might imagine a dinner at the Griggstown home where he lives with his wife, novelist Jean Hanff…