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  • Keep ‘donated’ itemson your own property

    To the editor    This letter is for whomever left a TV set on the sidewalk in front of our house with a note "Free/ Still Works" attached to it.    We do not appreciate your suspicious junk in front of our house. Anything left by a stranger in front of someone else’s house is considered suspicious.…

  • Woodward Farm propertyconveyed to private owner

       Mercer County Freeholders adopted a resolution Dec. 27 that made possible the transfer of the Woodward Farm, located on Marshall’s Corner-Woodsville Road in Hopewell Township, to a private owner.    The property was purchased through a public auction by Preservation Lands LLC for approximately $1.7 million. Closing on the property is anticipated to come Jan. 28.…

  • Skateboarding’s good wayto get around town and have fun

    GOOD TIMES IN HOPEWELL VALLEY By: John Tredrea    Like countless other youths all over the world, Luke McNees and Zach Martin are skateboard buffs.    They spend a lot of time with their boards, practicing hard-to-do tricks ad infinitum, or just traveling around — by pushing off with one foot and rolling, again and again, and…

  • Resident seeks to stop gas station

    Asks Washington Township Committee to overturn zoning board decision regarding Meadowbrook Road-Route 130 corner. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Resident Mike Bennett has asked the Township Committee to overturn a zoning board decision to grant several variances to BP Amoco, allowing the company to build a gas station at the corner of Meadowbrook Road and…

  • Anne Dickscheid

       HILLSBOROUGH — Anne Dickscheid died Dec. 26 in the Raritan Health and Extended Care Facility in Raritan. She was 87.    Born in Newark, she lived most of her life there before moving to Raritan recently.    Mrs. Dickscheid worked as a clerk with the Royal Globe Insurance Company in East Orange for over 25 years, retiring…

  • Residents mustopen their eyes

    To the editor    For starters, Mr. Krame is no taxpayer. He is a developer from Paramus who filed a builders remedy lawsuit to build a regional shopping center to "address" our low income housing obligations.    With respect to Mr. Krame’s comments regarding two of the finest public servants in New Jersey, suffice it to say…

  • Hopewell Township seeksinput on new Master Plan

    Planning Board member Kathy Bird lists meetings, explains process    The future land use and amount of development in Hopewell Township will be the focus of three upcoming Master Plan hearings scheduled by the township Planning Board.    The hearings are scheduled for Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 23 at 10 a.m., and March 14 at…

  • Vikings’ 5-0 start a tribute to team effort

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Hayward Vereen is making this coaching stuff look easy.    An assistant boys varsity basketball coach at South Brunswick for 10 years, Vereen took over as the head man prior to the 2001-02 season.    So far, so good.    With the 2001 portion of the season complete, South Brunswick is 5-0 overall and…

  • Exposing the Rift

    Playwright Dael Orlandersmith airs the dirty laundry of internal racism in ‘Yellowman’ at McCarter Theatre. By: Susan Van Dongen    Hatred rarely comes in black and white. The distrust and alienation that fuels animosity comes in subtle gradations of every shade on the color bar — from chocolate brown to umber to lily white.    Playwright Dael…