Category: archives
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Committee willmeet Tuesdays
Ends Wednesday night meetings after court backlog cleared By:Alec Moore Township Committee members will be rearranging their calendars in 2002 as the committee moves its regularly scheduled biweekly meetings from Wednesdays back to Tuesdays, according to Mayor Joseph Tricarico. Mayor Tricarico said the Township Committee’s meetings, which were traditionally held on Tuesday nights up until…
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Quality-of-life issues, topicfor Jan. 10 planners’ session
Township Planning Board member Kathy Bird outlines areas for discussion At the annual reorganization meeting of the Hopewell Township Planning Board, two topics related to resident quality of life will be discussed. The meeting will be held Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Hopewell Township Municipal Building, at the corner of Pennington-Washington Crossing Road…
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Merchants: SB Square on upswing
Owners say that 2002 will be a banner year for the shopping center. By: Brian Shappell The owners of the South Brunswick Square Mall and its tenants point to 2001 as a year of great improvement and hope to have a break-out year in 2002. With the hurdle of bringing in a stable anchor store…
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State may nix litter program
South Brunswick may loose the Clean Communities Program. By: Nick D’Amore A litter-free town may be harder to achieve if the state discontinues its Clean Communities Program. Township Recycling Coordinator Nancy Paquette said the grant helps fund the town’s Earth Day cleanup and party, T-shirts and the solicitation of volunteers. But Rachel Hamilton, spokeswoman for…
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Stephen Susko
MANVILLE Stephen Susko died Dec. 28 at home. He was 79. Born in Trenton, he had been a Manville resident of Manville for the past 50 years. He was a member of the Holy Ghost Carpatho Russian Orthodox Church in Manville. Mr. Susko worked as a Carpenter for the Carpenter’s Union, Somerville Local 455…
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Watch and learn
HHS students view surgery on interactive TV event By:Krzysztof Scibiorski Hillsborough High School students witnessed an open-heart surgery on Wednesday without ever leaving the school. Sophomores in teacher John Wastak’s college prep chemistry class were able to see the medical procedure thanks to the video teleconferencing capabilities at the school’s new study room. Before…
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‘The Business of Strangers’
Writer/director Patrick Stettner turns Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men on its head with this thriller. [R] By: Kam Williams A few years back, Neil LaBute made a powerful directorial debut with In the Company of Men, a fascinating, if frightening, indictment of the manipulative corporate mind-set. LaBute’s mean-spirited melodrama centered around a pair of…
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Upcoming events
For the week of January 3. By: Monday, Jan. 7 The Cpl. Philip A. Reynolds detachment will hold its regular monthly meeting, 8 p.m. at the Elks Club on East Main Street, Freehold. All members are urged to attend. Former marines are also invited to visit and become members. For information call Commandant Walt Perski,…
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Trip to Israel offers glimpse of conflict
"The idea was to show support from the American Jewish community to our brothers and sisters in Israel." -Rachel Shaneson By: Brian Shappell Nothing was going to stop a convoy of Jewish North Americans that included Monmouth Junction resident Rachel Shaneson on its way to Israel earlier this month not even more than a…
