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  • Bulldogs’ wrestling roster takes a hit

    Wrestling By: Mike Molaro    It would be an understatement to say the Hopewell Valley Central High School wrestling team was nailed big-time by graduation, injury and transfers this season.    Included in the Bulldogs’ list of losses are four 20-match winners and a great deal of veteran leadership. Still, Bulldogs head coach Bob Crognale and his…

  • Mandatory testing for older driversmay make roads safer for all

    READY FOR MOORE By:Alec Moore    What is it going to take to get incompetent drivers who pose a danger on the roads out from behind the wheel?    Recently, an 82-year-old woman was killed and four others — including a 2-year-old boy — were severely injured after a woman in her 60s plowed her car directly…

  • Lost in Creativity

    D.J. Haslett’s love for creating a variety of art has kicked his life into high gear. He is celebrating his first one-person show at the Lawrence Library’s gallery. By: Susan Van Dongen Above, D.J. Haslett’s photograph, "Katyn Corona," of a Jersey City statue dedicated to the Polish soldiers slaughtered by Stalin’s forces in the Katyn…

  • Local man faces drug, assault and other charges

    Muscente arrested after fleeing police By John Tredrea    A 22-year-old resident of Featherbed Lane in Hopewell Township was charged with possession of opium and marijuana with intent to distribute, aggravated assault on a police officer, driving while intoxicated, attempting to elude police and multiple other offenses Dec. 9.    Hopewell Township police arrested Lawrence Muscente at…

  • Volunteers try to save roof of historic cottage

    Volunteer still needed to spearhead preservation effort By: Concetta Benuzzi Volpe    WEST AMWELL — A rescue effort was launched Sunday as volunteers gathered to cover the roof on the Mantell cottage, hoping to protect the deteriorating 18th-century working-class home from further winter damage.    As the first line of defense, Open Space Advisory Committee Chairman Hal…

  • Mansfield committee votes 3-2 to award clerk 4-year contract

    Contract expires in 2006 By:Eve Collins    MANSFIELD — Township Clerk/Administrator Donna Snyder received a four-year contract at last week’s Township Committee meeting.    In a 3-2 vote, the committee approved the 4-year contract that expires in November of 2006 and had been forgotten for more than two years.    Ms. Snyder was hired in June of 2000…

  • Panel looks to state program to help create athletic fields

    Committe votes to apply to Green Acres program By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — The Township Committee is looking to the state for assistance to create community athletic fields at the prospective site of a new elementary school in the township’s planned village district.    Last week, the Township Committee voted to apply to the state Department…

  • Board may OK limited student cellphone usage

    Public hearing on revised policy Jan. 21 By:Eve Collins    MANSFIELD — Northern Burlington County Regional high school and middle school students may be permitted to carry cellular phones with them while on school grounds, and use them with special permission.    The Board of Education is proposing to revise its policy on cellular phones and pagers.…