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  • NBC distance relay qualifies for East Coast meet

    Team places second in event By:Sean Moylan    Saturday’s George Rowland Relays couldn’t have gone better for the Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity track and field team if it had written the script itself.    "Our one goal going in was to qualify for the East Coast States Relay (in the Distance medley relay),"…

  • Man charged in accident that injured two sisters

    By: Brian Shappell    Police have charged a 22-year-old Milltown resident with several violations that may have caused a March 28 car accident that sent two sisters to the hospital with serious injuries.    Henry Youssef was charged Monday with careless driving, leaving the scene of a serious accident, failure to report an accident, obstructing the passage…

  • Friends, family remember Ellis Hull

    When it came to talking history, few — if anyone — could match the Allentown resident. By: Ken Weingartner    ALLENTOWN — When it came to talking history, few — if anyone — could match Ellis Hull.    Sitting on his front porch, or in his living room — or later in the Tandum Health Care Center…

  • Gilmore, Andreyko ignite track team

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl Ryan Gilmore and Franklin Andreyko are becoming quite a 1-2 punch for the Manville High boys’ track and field team. Both Mustang standouts won two events — one jumping and one on the track — to power the Mustangs to a 90-40 victory. It was Manville’s third straight win after…

  • ‘Enigma’

    British code breakers battle the Nazis and still find time for romance.   [R] By: Bob Brown    How’s this for a film plot? A math genius is hired to break secret enemy codes for the military. He falls madly in love with a beautiful woman, but he’s a klutz in affairs of the heart. After losing his…

  • Township Committee holdsbond proposal hearing tonight

    Topic will be a $946,000 bond ordinance under which replacement vehicles and other equipment for the police and public works department, along with a variety of other gear, can be purchased By: John Tredrea    Scheduled for a public hearing and adoption vote at tonight’s Hopewell Township Committee meeting is $946,000 bond ordinance under which replacement…

  • VFW post and ladies auxiliaryappoint this year’s officers

    Installation dinner set for May 17    VFW Post 2290 and it’s auxiliary recently elected new officers for the upcoming year, and set a special installation dinner and ceremony for May 17.    The VFW officers for the year will include Mellant Palo, Commander; Darryl Henderson, Senior Vice Commander; Jim Wisor, Junior Vice Commander; Andy Henkel, Quartermaster;…

  • Tough road ahead for HoVal baseball

    Baseball By: Mike Molaro    Looking at the Hopewell Valley Central High School baseball squad’s 2-8 record is an excellent opportunity to separate the pessimists from the optimists.    The pessimist would focus on the eight-game losing streak and the extraordinarily high odds against the Bulldogs running the table to qualify for the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group…

  • Lawrence girls advance in MCT

    Softball By: Steve Feitl    It was an up-and-down week for the Lawrence High School softball team.    In regular season games, the Cardinals played a sloppy game on Saturday and lost, but rebounded to play a gritty game on Tuesday and win.    Prior to that, the sixth-seeded Cardinals flexed their muscles in the Mercer County Tournament…