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  • EDITORIAL: School time, and the livin’ gets easier

    Vacation’s over for the kids, but it’s just starting for the parents    Its time to put away the swimsuits, head to the nearest store for school supplies and try to remember how to set the alarm clock.    Sorry kids, summer vacation is over. But, it may just be starting for your parents.    For students, heading…

  • The Last Picture Show

    In Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, memories can be stirred up — or formed anew — at Shankweiler’s Drive-In. By: Jim Boyle    It’s difficult — but not impossible — to feel nostalgic for fads that were popular before you were born. As someone in my mid 20s, the only real movie theater memories I have involve loud,…

  • CANDIDATE’S CORNER: Working to stabilize taxes

    Dave Fried is a Republican running for Washington Township Committee. He currently is on the committee and serves as mayor. By: Dave Fried    I was surprised to read a candidate’s column in this newspaper in which I was actually criticized for doing what I can to ensure the Washington Township schools continue to provide the…

  • Why did school boardask the 2001 football question?

    GUEST OPINION By Sally Turner and Bill Hills    We would like to explain why the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education asked for extra funds to start a football program in the first place.    In April 2001, the voters of Hopewell Valley were asked a "second question" as part of the yearly budget to approve…

  • Dancers tell feds they were coerced

    U.S. attorney’s office charges trio with trafficking, forced labor By:Alec Moore    Federal investigators may provide some of the ammunition local officials can use to close Frank’s Chicken House, the infamous Washington Avenue strip club that many residents and officials have seen as a bane in the community.    According to an indictment issued by the office…

  • Ethel Cimato

       HILLSBOROUGH — Ethel V. Cimato, 92, died Saturday, Aug. 17, in Foothill Acres Nursing Home, Hillsborough.    Born in Brooklyn, she lived in Scotch Plains before moving to Hillsborough in 1984.    Mrs. Cimato was telephone operator for 25 years with the former AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill.    Her husband, Frank Cimato Sr., died in 2000;…

  • Committee moves to improve commission

    Trying to improve attendance of environmental panel. By: Scott Morgan    UPPER FREEHOLD — A member of the Township Environmental Commission recently asked the Township Committee to help solve an attendance problem that she says has kept it from meeting since January.    Last week, the Township Committee obliged.    Commission member Sue Kozel appeared before the Township…

  • Township supports effortsto manage Valley area traffic

    ‘We’re saturated with traffic,’ said Township Engineer Paul Pogorzelski. This viewpoint is shared by everyone participating in HVTMC By John Tredrea    The Hopewell Township Committee has voted unanimously to support efforts of the Hopewell Valley Traffic Management Coalition (HVTMC) and to authorize the mayor to designate representatives to the coalition.     "We’re saturated with traffic,"…

  • Don’t believe it if someone tells you marijuana is harmless

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse    A comment made during a recent afternoon chat show on a prominent New Jersey radio station is a glaring example of how the media occasionally — out of ignorance or otherwise — can mislead people.    The topic was substance abuse. The talker asked his co-host the question (paraphrased, of course):…