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  • Boys seek sectional crown after clinching Delaware

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl With one title already in their back pockets, the Hillsborough High boys will begin their quest for another soccer championship tomorrow afternoon at the Auten Road School field. The Raiders wrapped up their first Delaware Division crown since 1997 with a 1-1 tie at Bridgewater-Raritan and 6-0 win over Phillipsburg…

  • Just days left to make decisions for Tuesday election

    EDITORIAL By: Ruth Luse    The end of this year’s abbreviated "silly season" is upon us.    Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 6, and polls in Hopewell Valley and across the state will be open from 6 a.m. (new time) to 8 p.m. — giving everyone plenty of time to cast ballots.    Because of the nation’s preoccupation…

  • PHS senior appointed to newsletter board

       Elizabeth Marchetta, a senior at Princeton High School, is one of 17 New Jersey high school students appointed to the 2001-2002 editorial board for SEX, ETC., a national newsletter and Web site on health and sexuality written by and for teen-agers, and published by the Network for Family Life Education at Rutgers’ Graduate School of…

  • All Aboard

    An inaugural exhibit at the newly restored Hopewell train station puts the nostalgic artwork of Jerry Cable ‘On Track.’ By: Ilene Dube    For the moment, turn off CNN and NPR. Put away those magnificent color photo spreads in The New York Times of Northern Alliance soldiers in their ethnic garb, holding rifles, against the wheat-colored…

  • Republicans are genuine, honest

    LEDGER FORUM    On Nov. 6, each of us will make important decisions that will affect our town. I am writing to encourage you to support Rick Miller and Mark Holmes who are running for re-election to the Lawrence Township Council.    Over the years, I have come to know Rick and Mark as honest, genuine and…

  • Robbinsville Hardware to phase out retail

    Competition from ‘big box’ outfits Home Depot, Lowe’s force out local store. By: Mark Moffa Robbinsville Hardware to phase out retail sales Hardware ÿ8HARDWAREÿ Mark MoffaStaff Writer WASHINGTON — It looks as if "big box" retail has notched another victory. Small, family-owned businesses nationwide are having difficulty competing with large, chain superstores. Now, after 17…

  • An obvious Halloween Cat

    By: Linda Field    "Black Cat … crosses my path all the time, and I’ve had no bad luck with this black cat," said resident Sean Salcewicz, owner of our choice for the 2001 Halloween Cat.    The cat was almost too easy to find.    A pet of the Salcewicz family for more than three years, Black…

  • Flood of anthrax scares dominate police blotter

       In most cases, Lawrence police have been able to determine that the substances they ecnounter are harmless. By: Lea Kahn    It’s not unusual to see swarms of police and emergency personnel converge on a house or business in town since the anthrax scares began.    For example, last week an employee at the Lawrence Day School…

  • Clergyman moved by WTC memorial

    By: Brian Shappell    The Rev. Francis Hubbard recently had a moving experience, one unlike the average service at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.    The backdrop wasn’t a pulpit, but rather, the remains of the World Trade Center.    At the request of a parishioner widowed from the attack from St. Barnabas, a Franklin Township resident he did…