Category: archives

  • Wilfird to lead board

    Kownacki chosen as vice chairman By: Lea Kahn    Planning Board member Tom Wilfrid was chosen to be the Planning Board chairman Monday night at the board’s annual reorganization meeting. He was the board’s vice chairman.    Planning Board member James Kownacki was chosen to be the vice chairman.    Michael Horan and James Kownacki were sworn into…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of January 10. By: Mayor takes much credit for work of others To the editor:    I read with interest the article regarding Committeeman Dave Fried and the retrospective on the year 2001, and I can honestly say that the more I read the more disappointed I continued to get. To me Dave…

  • Remembering the past,building for the future

    GUEST COLUMN By: Shirley Turner    The year 2001 has been difficult for America, for New Jersey, and for the people of the 15th Legislative District that I represent. I, like all of you, have run the gamut of emotions from shock and anger to determination and pride in our country, and I have been moved…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH PLANNING UPDATE

    Public hearings on two applications for minor subdivisions drew about 25 people to the Jan. 2 meeting of the Hopewell Borough Planning Board By: Catherine P. Moscarello    Public hearings on two applications for minor subdivisions drew about 25 people to the Jan. 2 meeting of the Hopewell Borough Planning Board.    Reorganization was the main agenda…

  • Church sponsors free discussionfor recession-proofing families

    Mormon Church’s Relief Society offers free program with Penny Pinchers Newsletter    When unemployment during a recession in the early 1990s affected of Jackie Iglehart, the Iglehart family didn’t let it crimp their life.    Instead, Ms. Iglehart found creative ways to eliminate wasteful spending in her home, so many ways she eventually began publishing "The Penny…

  • Officials ready to get back to work

    Dave Fried selected by Township Committee to serve another year as Washington’s mayor. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — As expected, the Township Committee last week reappointed Committeeman Dave Fried as mayor and Committeeman Doug Tindall as deputy mayor at its annual reorganization meeting.    Committeeman Vince Calcagno was sworn in for his third full term at…

  • A prominent family of Monmouth, Part 2

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: A look at the Allentown-Upper Freehold of the past. By:    (The following originally appeared in the Allentown Messenger dated June 23, 1904.)    At a meeting held by the patriots at the Court House at Freehold, December 10, 1774, to protest against the tyrannical acts of British Government, a committee of nine was elected…

  • Light in the Darkness

    ‘Becket’ and Beyond:  Actors’ NET gets ready for a regal series in Morrisville, Pa. By: Daniel Shearer    The dust has not yet settled from construction of the latest set at Actors’ NET in Morrisville, Pa. — the Gothic arch of Canterbury Cathedral. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski Henry II (George Hartpence) and Bishop Folliot (Joe…

  • OBITUARIES 01/10

    From the Jan. 10 edition of the Register-News By: Carl Rentner    CHESTERFIELD — Carl Rentner, 70, died Jan. 4 at home.    Born in Trenton, he was a longtime Chesterfield resident.    He retired as a mail carrier from the U.S. Postal Service in Trenton after many years.    He was a member of the N.A.L.C. Association and…