Category: archives

  • Project leadingto over-development

    To the editor    I was at my third or fourth Planning Board meeting on Thursday, May 9. My interest was in the Bibeau application for a major sub-division across the street from me.    The courtroom was filled with concerned citizens ready to practice their rights, to make public comment on a subject that scares the…

  • Striking a Southern Chord

    Singer-songwriter Kate Campbell’s latest album, Wandering Strange, delves into gospel music. She will perform at Montgomery Center for the Arts May 19. By: Jillian Kalonick    Gospel albums from mainstream artists often mark a musical shift that does not always click with critics or listeners. Singer-songwriter Kate Campbell did not expect to record one, but for…

  • Allan McVicker

       HILLSBOROUGH — Allan R. McVicker died Sunday, May 12, at home. He was 48.    Born and raised in Monongahela, Pa., he lived in Philadelphia, Denver, and Lebanon, N.J., before moving to Hillsborough five years ago.    Mr. McVicker was a principal technical manager for IBM for three years and AT&T for 18 in Piscataway. Prior to…

  • Blooms for mother on Mother’s Day

    Would you wrap this, please?     Jack Dallessio, 3, of Hopewell Borough, places a container of flowers he bought for his mother on the table to be wrapped during the Hopewell Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary Mother’s Day Flower Sale Saturday at the Hopewell Firehouse. Jack is the son of Hopewell Councilman and Mrs. Tom Dallessio…

  • ‘Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones’

    George Lucas’ sci-fi mega-saga renews its dazzling reign.   [PG] By: Bob Brown    Ah, Star Wars: The Force arrayed against the Dark Side on a galactic stage.    Long ago but not too far away, when George Lucas conceived the original Star Wars, he had in mind a tale partly patterned on mythic quests like those in Joseph…

  • GUEST COLUMN: School district did nothing wrong

    Washington Superintendent Paul Harren rejects claim district misrepresented data By: Paul Harren    I am writing this column to respond to your May 2 article concerning ie communications’ accusations that Washington Township school officials misrepresented financial data in connection with the Dec. 11, 2001, bond referendum. At the outset, I must emphatically state that nothing could…

  • DISPATCHES: Court finally gets it on land-use rules

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Recent decision by U.S. Supreme Court could aid in curbing development.    Development is the great bugaboo in South Brunswick, the one thing guaranteed to raise the hackles of residents.    Ask any resident and he or she will tell you South Brunswick has grown too quickly and they will recite a litany…

  • Margaret Portanova

       MANVILLE — Margaret Shedlosky Portanova died Sunday, May 5, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 60.    Born in New York City, she lived in Manville before moving to Dunellen in 1989.    Mrs. Portanova was employed at Microwave Semiconductor Corp. in Somerset for 15 years.    She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church of…

  • Col. Joseph Kirkbride is given his due

    American flag is officially placed at Revolutionary War veteran’s grave in Bordentown City. By: Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN CITY — Placing flags on the graves of veterans for Memorial Day has been an American Legion tradition since the late 1860s, but the significance of the gesture grows with each generation, said Post 26 Cmdr. Andrew…