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  • Bulldogs move to 6-1 with two wins

    TRACK & FIELD By: Steve Feitl    The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys track and field team sits at 6-1 at this early point of the season — something that pleases head coach Dean Dekok.    "We’re off to a good year," he said after the Bulldogs picked up two more wins at a quad-meet Tuesday.…

  • Library crafts help Scout earn new award

    LIVING IN MANVILLE By:Mary Ellen Zangara    Girl Scouts have a new award to work for in addition to earning the Silver and Gold award and Catina Santoro hopes to be one of the first to earn Scouting’s new Bronze award.    Catina, a third-year Junior Scout in Troop 861, is the first Scout in Manville to…

  • Mulch to do about something

    LEDGER FORUM    Travel down Baker’s Basin Road in the early morning and some days your eyes sting with the stink of a New England paper mill town in the ’60s or ’70s. The source is at Mid-Jersey Mulch Products, 227 Bakers Basin Road.    What began a few years ago as a fairly benign-looking mulch business…

  • Janssen, others commenton township’s proposed Master Plan design

    The board will cast an adoption vote after meeting to consider comments made during the public hearings By: John Tredrea    About 40 residents and representatives of landowners showed up for the Hopewell Township Planning Board’s third and final public hearing on the final draft of the township’s new Master Plan.    Some found fault with the…

  • Gold heads Dems’ listto fill committee term

    But party says they’re reviewing possible candidates By:Alec Moore    The Democratic Party is in the process of putting together its short list of prospective candidates who may finish up the term of former Township Committeewoman Christine Jensen.    Ms. Jensen resigned from the committee April 11 due to an ankle injury she suffered in January. The…

  • Dave Homan Quintet: Live at Art’s Garage again

    When he was 10 years old, he picked up a saxophone for the first time at Hopewell Elementary School By: Janet Purcell    Saxophonist Dave Homan has a longtime connection to Hopewell and he’ll be playing again in town — at Art’s Garage — on Sunday.    True, he grew up in nearby Montgomery Township, but he,…

  • John E. Patricelli

    John E. Patricelli, 74, of Titusville, died Wednesday at home. Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong area resident. Mr. Patricelli owned Heath Lumber Co., Trenton, for 51 years. He was an Army veteran of World War II. Son of the late Vincent and Santina Ferrara Patricelli, he is survived by his wife, Pat Sisti…

  • Voters back school budget

    Residents favor budget by a 2-1 margin By: Nick D’Amore    Voters supported the 2002-2003 school budget Tuesday by a margin of almost 2-to-1.    All but one voting district, District 17, supported the budget. District 17 voters rejected the plan by a vote of 23-21. Those voting in absentee ballots were in a dead heat, 11-11.…

  • Making the last minute dash to file

    Procrastinators rush to post offices with IRS forms in hand By: Melissa Morgan    Despite long lines and a prolonged wait at some local post offices Monday, most procrastinators and postal workers said that the last-minute rush to mail tax returns on deadline day wasn’t as bad as they had expected.    "I thought the line would…