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  • Students send their love overseas

    Student Council members come up with idea By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN CITY — Valentine’s Day will be red, white and blue this year for Clara Barton Elementary School students, who took time out during lunch last week to make "candygram" cards to send to U.S. troops overseas.    Members of the Student Council came up with…

  • Planners take seats

    Board selects Richard Stern to be chairman for another term and Daniel Van Voorhis as vice chairman. By: Scott Morgan    UPPER FREEHOLD — All hands raised simultaneously and all names blended into one incomprehensible mishmash as a group of eight Township Planning Board members were sworn in last week.    Seven of the eight members are…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY

    Use of Accutane must be monitored By: Judy Shepps Battle    On Jan. 5, 2002, Charles Bishop deliberately flew a single-engine Cessna airplane into the 28th floor of the Bank of America skyscraper in downtown Tampa, Fla. Although much was made of the similarity of this incident to the September 11 World Trade Center attack and…

  • Forum: Martin Luther King Jr.

    What is the legacy left to us by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? What is the legacy left to us by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

  • Field trip costsadding up

    To the editor    This letter is addressed to Dr. Gulick and the Hillsborough school board members.    Last month my seventh-grade son brought home a permission slip for a class field trip for me to sign. The cost of the trip was $23. I felt that was a little extravagant for a field trip, but thinking…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 01/17

    From the Jan. 17 edition of the Register-News By: 120 years ago    Mrs. Ann Denny, whose knitting took a premium at the last Mount Holly fair, died last week at the age of 104. She held a reception and reunion of her friends on her birthday this New Year’s. She retained all her faculties to…

  • New elementary school on schedule;waiting for permit on high school expansion

    SCHOOL DISTRICT CONSTRUCTION UPDATE By: John Tredrea    Construction manager David Tillou told the school board Monday night he had "good news and bad news" in his monthly update on how work is progressing on building a new elementary school in Brandon Farms and a major expansion of Central High School.    The good news is that…

  • MOST THINGS CONSIDERED

    A marraige that passes the test of time By: Minx McCloud    Jim and I were married on Jan. 17, 1977, on the coldest day I have ever experienced. Nobody’s car would start, and as our appointment with the justice of the peace drew ever nearer, we found ourselves up to our waists in jumper cables…

  • Spot Check

    Inspect your skin for problem spots before it’s too late.Nationally, there are 47,800 cases and 7,800 deaths each year that can be attributed to melanoma, according to the ACS study. By: Pat Stein "There could be a 100 percent cure rate if all skin cancers were brought to a physician’s attention before they spread," Fitzpatrick…