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  • BOOK NOTES: Captivating young readers

    Details about Newbery and Caldecott award winners. By: Joan Ruddiman    The American Library Association held its annual conference in Atlanta mid-June. Suzanne, now on the Printz Committee (she won’t tell me anything of the discussions!) came back with some great stories, including details of the dinner honoring the Newbery and Caldecott winners.    Linda Sue Park…

  • Township to lease police car

    Plumsted Police Department to continue practice of replacing one vehicle per year. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — It’s that time of year again: Summer sun, fireworks shows, watermelon — and a new police car.    Every year, according to Mayor Ron Dancer, the township leases a new cruiser for the Police Department, which it will then…

  • Township to lease police car

    Plumsted Police Department to continue trend of replacing one vehicle per year. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — It’s that time of year again: Summer sun, fireworks shows, watermelon — and a new police car.    Every year, according to Mayor Ron Dancer, the township leases a new cruiser for the Police Department, which it will then…

  • Washington needs land for Town Center

    Parts of six properties needed for Southside and Southerly Bypass projects. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — The Township Committee last week reintroduced an ordinance that would allow the township to use eminent domain to seize land from six properties on the south side of Route 33.    An ordinance introduced June 13 misidentified the affected properties.…

  • HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: Allentown Post Office

    A look at the Allentown-Upper Freehold of the past. By: John Fabiano    Originally published in the Allentown Messenger dated Nov. 16, 1911.    The post office was next located at the corner of Main and Church streets, in the store of Daniel W. Bills, who was the next appointee. He held the office until 1853, when…

  • Recital marredby taping policy

    To the editor    My three-year-old daughter was a student at a Hillsborough dance school. Several weeks ago, they had their ballet recital. My husband and I were not the only parents that dreamed of taping our daughter’s first dance recital.    Unfortunately, video cameras were banned completely for the simple reason that the school is selling…

  • Those Were the Days

    Return to the heyday of the Industrial Revolution at Allaire Village, where costumed townsfolk tell their story. By: Susan Van Dongen A volunteer fetches water from the Mill Pond at Allaire Village, above.    In 1836, America was celebrating its 60th birthday, Charles Dickens had just completed Oliver Twist, and the vest — or waistcoat —…

  • Court’s decisionignores history

    To the editor    In the Declaration of Independence there are four references to God: "to which the laws of Nature and Nature’s God entitle them"; endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world:; "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence."    The Ninth Circuit Judges…

  • ‘The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys’

    Catholic schoolboys run amok in this film adaptation of Chris Fuhrman’s coming-of-age novel.   [R] By: Bob Brown    William Blake didn’t take crap from anybody. He said what he felt and drew the way he wanted to, with lots of action and nudes and universal conflagration. He wrote There Is No Natural Religion. It figures he would…