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  • New Egypt track squad looking for depth

    With only 17 members, team will concentrate on quality over quantity. By: Kyle Moylan    Knowing his team will not get the opportunity to win many track meets this season, New Egypt Coach Joseph Jerabek has decided to let his kids have fun and compete in all of them.    "The kids we have are doing well,"…

  • Life-saving lessons

    Students learn how to make 9-1-1 calls By:John Patten    At first glimpse, the scene had all of the hallmarks of a terrible accident — the body of third-grader Veronica Zuccarello twisted oddly on the floor, her panicked brother dialing 9-1-1.    But the "accident" was carefully staged under the guidance of Hillsborough High School senior and…

  • Candidates for new seatdiscuss school fields issue

    Main and Simon introduce themselves By: Ruth Luse    Recently, the Hopewell Valley News asked the two candidates for the one new Hopewell Township seat (one-year term) on the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education the following question:    With the defeat of the March 12 Back Timberlane referendum, the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education remains…

  • Nicholas Berezansky dies at age 80

    With flags flying at half staff, residents say goodbye to one of its most respected community leaders By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    Nicholas P. Berezansky, a 30-year officer of the Manville First Aid and Rescue Squad and a lifelong Manville resident, was 80 years old when he died early Sunday morning at his home. A well-attended funeral was…

  • OBITUARIES, April 6, 2002

    Mildred A. Wismer, Joseph Rogozinski. Mildred A. Wismer Longtime Montgomery resident    MONTGOMERY— Mildred A. "Ray" Wismer died Monday at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 91.    Born in Catasauqua, Pa., Mrs. Wismer was a Trenton area resident before moving to Montgomery in the 1950s.    She worked at General Motors in Ewing during World War…

  • Life-saving effort earns woman Heart Association award

    Maureen Mazzaglia of Hillsborough is not one to turn a blind eye to a stranger in need By:Alec Moore    In early December, during a family vacation in Williamsburg, Va., Ms. Mazzaglia, her sister Deidre Gorman of Staten Island, N.Y., and some of their other relatives had been taking a stroll through the colonial district, taking…

  • Voters will remembermayor’s remarks

    To the editor    At the March 12 Hillsborough Township Committee meeting, two speakers were dismissed with Mayor Tricarico’s retort, "Take it to the ballot box!"    He repeated his same remark in a patronizing tone at the March 26 Township Committee meeting. "Take it to the ballot box!" This didn’t sit well with us as we…

  • Plumsted to have lowest cost per pupil

    TOWN TALK by Ron Dancer: News from the mayor of Plumsted Township. By:    The list of "firsts" for Plumsted Township continues to grow. In addition to being the leader of 33 municipalities in Ocean County for preserving land from more residential development and having the lowest municipal tax rate, our K-12 school district will, for…

  • Auto kills pedestrian

    Woman struck on the way home from the store By: Brian Shappell    A 54-year-old Dayton woman was killed March 28 while trying to cross Route 522 on the way home from a local food store at 6:49 p.m.    Majorie McKinnon-Vernola was walking from the Foodtown on Georges Road in the Liberty Mall Shopping Center to…