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  • For the week of March 7

    Rose Ference Lewallen, Thomas Chiusano, Mario DiPierro, Irene D. Emiliani, Monica Klimaszewski, John E. Poksay, Sally Gottschalk, Frances M. Gilliland. By: Rose Ference Lewallen    HAMILTON — Rose Udijohn Ference Lewallen, 80, died Monday, March 4, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She had been…

  • Cuts needed despiteaid restoration

    $600,000 must be cut to avoid property tax increase this year By:Alec Moore    After a meeting with Mayor Angelo Corradino and Bound Brook officials in Bound Brook Friday, Gov. James E. McGreevey decided to release the $1.3 million in state aid that was promised to the borough last year.    "He had a change of heart…

  • Friendship

    To the editor    The Oxford American Dictionary defines "friend" as "a person with whom one is in terms of affection and respect." Nowhere in this definition does it indicate people will be on these terms forever. Yet somehow people are being misled into thinking once they forge a bond with another human being, that friendship…

  • Local actors finish up ‘Peter Pan’

    By: Nick D’Amore    Several district students just wrapped up three weeks of performing "Peter Pan" with the New Jersey Repertory Theater of North Brunswick.    Among the students performing in the group’s winter show were six from Crossroads School, who participate in the theater group outside of school.    "You get to meet other people," said Chelsea…

  • Township GOP seeks candidates

    April 1 deadline set    Hopewell Township Republican Chairman William H. Cane has announced that the Hopewell Township Republican County Committee is looking for candidates to run for Hopewell Township Committee.    "A new generation is ready to help lead our community," said Mr. Cane. "A new chairman will soon be taking his or her message to…

  • Linda Konover Meirs, 1884-1972, Part Two

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: A look at the Allentown-Upper Freehold of the past. By:    With the kind permission of Ruth Holmes Honadle, Upper Freehold Historian and co-author with her son, George, of "Twixt Crosswicks Creek and Burlington Path," the fascinating history of her great aunt Linda is presented here. This heartwarming story of an extraordinarily well-decorated War…

  • Qualities for schools chief listed

    Public and community leaders offers thoughts on what it will take to lead Manville schools By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    More than 20 residents attended a public meeting Tuesday night to add their input on the qualities the school district should look for in its next superintendent.    And based on the comments, it appears Manville residents are looking…

  • Williams ousted in dramatic decision

    Wrestling By: Mike Molaro    It’s been said that the further an athlete advances, the deeper the cut of defeat.    If that’s the case, then Hopewell Valley Central High School’s Mike Williams was cut to the core during last Friday evening’s NJSIAA Region 5 Wrestling Tournament quarterfinals at Hunterdon Central High.    The Bulldog junior, who finished…

  • Letters to the editor, March 7, 2002

    Doomed from the outset To the editor:     I thoroughly enjoyed reading David Blackwell’s comments concerning the name of the newest school in Hopewell Valley. His observations were rational, well-reasoned, historically and geographically accurate and doomed from the outset.    Naming the school after John Hart would be, in another place and time, a perfect way…