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  • For the record

    FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster By:    Ya know, lately I can’t see the forest for the trees. I wood if I stopped thinking of life around here as a walk in the proverbial park. But I think it’s understandable considering the environment we hold so deer.    You really must keep things in perspective. You can’t…

  • Cardinal girls team wins third straight

    Girls basketball By: Jim Green One 12-minute quarter was all it took to erase Lawrence High School girls basketball coach Gregg Zenerovitz’s doubts about his team’s commitment to defense.    The Cardinals rebounded from a lackluster defensive effort against Colonial Valley Conference rival Ewing with a sparkling 59-38 win Monday over McCorristin. Lawrence blanked the Iron…

  • Washington rescue squad celebrates first birthday

    Members reflect on their first year of service to the township. By: Cynthia Koons    WASHINGTON — Ask Washington Fire Commissioner Debbie Matson what her life was like exactly one year ago and she’ll tell you about the nail-biting stress.    She was looking for a new vehicle for the township’s firefighters, but it wasn’t a fire…

  • Week of Jan. 9

    By: Theresa R. Weber    SEVERNA PARK, Md. — Theresa R. Weber, 94, of Allentown died Dec. 26 at the Severna Park Center.    Born on the family farm, Mrs. Weber was a lifelong area resident.    She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Andrew J. and Barbara T. Weber of Severna Park, Md; her son, John…

  • South boys winter track team looks strong in distance

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    For most high school track programs, graduating six out of eight varsity distance runners would be a major setback, at least in those events. But for the South Brunswick High School squad, good carry-over from a successful cross country program will continue the Vikings’ depth in the distance races.    "I think…

  • First aid squad gets new defibrillator

    Local first aiders accept donation. By: Rebecca Tokarz The Monmouth Junction First Aid Squad has started the new year off with some new equipment.    Ropak, a Dayton-based plastics manufacturing company, has donated a Heartstream FR2 AED Defibrillator to the rescue squad.    The rescue squad was chosen as the recipient of the defibrillator because it has…

  • Allentown leaders set 2003 agenda

    Main Street Bridge renovation, sidewalk repairs, new Heritage Park entrance among top priorities. By: Cynthia Koons    ALLENTOWN — Their municipal New Year’s resolutions: rebuild the Main Street Bridge while managing borough traffic, fix the town’s sidewalks, open a Main Street entrance to Heritage Park and determine the fate of the former Farmers National Bank building,…

  • Beatrice Hamernick

       MANVILLE – Beatrice (Spencer) Hamernick died Monday, Dec. 30, at home. She was 74.    Born in Plainfield, she was raised in Warren and lived in Middlesex before moving to Manville 50 years ago.    Mrs. Hamernick was a homemaker.    She was a communicant of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Manville.    Her husband, Charles A. Hamernick,…

  • HEF sets ‘Peter and the Wolf’ reprise

       A woodwind quintet from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will perform selections from "Peter and Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev in a special program designed to help young children appreciate classical music composition, at 1 p.m., Jan. 18, at Hillsborough’s Auten Road Intermediate School.    The program is the second presentation of the program offered free to…