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  • Homework loadis too heavy

    To the editor    As of late, I have been getting frustrated and rather annoyed with the amount of homework assigned on the weekends. It seems to me that the teachers in our school just keep giving more and more homework and every evening’s quantity increases as the school year progresses. What we, the students at…

  • Public invited to speakat second Master Plan public hearing March 14

    GUEST COLUMN By: Kathleen Bird    Hopewell Township residents are encouraged to come out tonight and comment about the township’s draft, new land-use Master Plan, which seeks to preserve the Valley’s rural character and quality of life.    The second of three public hearings is scheduled for tonight, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Timberlane Middle…

  • Township says no road work planned for traffic spots

    Residents concerned about traffic near propsosed church site By: Lea Kahn    Two decades ago, making a left turn from Foxcroft Drive onto Princeton Pike was as easy as looking left, looking right and pulling out.    Today, making that turn still requires looking left and looking right — but it takes more than a few minutes…

  • FORUM: School Report Card

    How useful do you find the state School Report Cards? How useful do you find the state School Report Cards?

  • Township moves to restrictleft turns onto Dublin Road

    The Hopewell Township Committee voted unanimously March 7 in favor of two measures seeking to ban motorists from making left turns onto Dublin Road at specified times of day By: John Tredrea    The full Hopewell Township Committee voted unanimously March 7 in favor of two measures seeking to ban motorists from making left turns onto…

  • County bill also on rise

    Taxes will increase 5 percent By: Melissa Morgan    South Brunswick taxpayers can expect a 5 percent increase in their county property tax bills this year.    Though the Middlesex County equalized tax rate is expected to drop 1 cent overall for the county, most municipalities will pay more in 2002 because of differences in actual assessments.…

  • Letters to teh editor, March 14, 2002

    Trash supporters lauded To the editor:     Thanks to all those who came to the borough council meeting in support of our current trash collection system.    It was heart-warming to see and hear the support for our employees and the job they do for us.    May we all continue to work with council in a…

  • Stockton considers relief for couple’s water bill

    By: Carl Reader    STOCKTON — The Borough Council is considering a plea for relief from a New Hampshire couple who received a $3,184.93 water bill after a leaking pipe outside a home they own in Stockton unleashed enough water to float a boat.    Steven Morland, the attorney for Bruce and Margaret Toter, told the council…

  • Louis H. Linowitz

       Louis H. Linowitz, 81, died Sunday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.    Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong area resident and attended city public schools. He was a paper boy for an area daily at age 7.    He graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and…