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  • Town eyes signs to detour trucks

    Many trucks get lost and end up on local roads. By: Nick D’Amore    The Township Committee may use signs as a way of decreasing prohibited truck traffic on local roads.    Committeeman Greg Overstreet said some trucks over 4 tons end up on South Main Street and other local roads because they get lost while on…

  • Hopewell boys look for more scoring

    Boys Basketball By: Steve Feitl    Tony Mormile can feel things starting to come around for his team, but whether things can get turned around before the Bulldogs’ holiday tournament that starts Friday is the big question facing his boys basketball team.    In their most recent contest, the Bulldogs fell at Steinert, 61-55.    Mormile was pleased…

  • City may buy Acme for parking, offices

    The city will propose an increase in parking meter fees to pay the $1,113,150 cost of puchasing the property on South Union Street. By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — A well-known TV commercial telling people to dial certain numbers for long-distance phone service touts the power of a buck, but Lambertville is touting the power of…

  • Join the crowd in watershed study

    EDITORIAL: Washington should join Plumsted, Upper Freehold, Allentown, Millstone and Hamilton in the project. By:    Washington Township should join the crowd.    The township was supposed to be a member of a municipal coalition seeking to preserve stream water quality in the Crosswicks Creek watershed area. Plumsted, Upper Freehold, Allentown, Millstone and Hamilton also are involved…

  • Debate continues over Solebury earned income tax

    It is still undetermined how much money the tax will generate, if those tax funds will be adequate and just where some of that money should go. By: Carl Reader    SOLEBURY — Although the township Board of Supervisors passed its $2.77 million budget for 2002 at its Dec. 18 meeting, the major part of the…

  • 8 apply for zoning, planning posts

    There are three open slots on the Planning Board and three on the Zoning Board of Adjustment By: Lea Kahn    Eight township residents, including five incumbents, are seeking appointment to six vacant seats — three on the Planning Board and three on the Zoning Board of Adjustment.    At the Planning Board — there are two…

  • Boys hoop squad equals last year’s win total

    Hard work paying off for Redbirds as they prepare for holiday tournament action. By: Kyle Moylan    Before they unwrapped any CDs, jeans or X boxes on Christmas morning, the members of the Allentown High School boys’ basketball team were able to give a great gift to each other.    By winning both of its games this…

  • ‘Ali’

    Will Smith finds his stride as ‘The Greatest.’   [R] By: Kam Williams Will Smith beefed up for his heavyweight champion and cultural icon Muhammad Ali    I have to admit, I was somewhat skeptical when I heard Will Smith signed on to play Muhammad Ali.    First, I feared the Fresh Prince’s irrepressible clown act would overwhelm Ali’s…

  • Administrator notsolving problems

    To the editor    Our Democratic Township Committee has reached the end of their second year of leadership.    A massive, expensive program for parks and recreational needs marked their first year in office.    Thousands of our young athletes enjoy these facilities now. And as these young people become parents and grandparents, they will remember their childhood…