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  • Find a way to clear away political smoke

    EDITORIAL: Voters need to focus on candidates, not rhetoric. By:    It probably comes as no surprise to followers of politics in Millstone that this year’s race for Township Committee has grown increasingly acrimonious.    The annual return of personal attacks and sniping in October in Millstone is about as predictable as the return of the swallows…

  • School forum focuses on discrimination issues, fear

    "Look through someone else’s eyes and don’t let the shock of what happened get to you." -Shandy Walton By: Nick D’Amore    Parents, students and township officials gathered together Monday night to discuss profiling and discrimination issues stemming from the Sept. 11 tragedy.    The event was coordinated by the Affinity Club, which is a group of…

  • No holds barred here

    Pro wrestler, ‘The Animal,’ is coming to town. By: Steve Feitl    Among the creeps and ghouls roaming the grounds of the Dardani’s Haunted Trail and Bizarre at Woodlot Park on New Road this Friday will be a giant of a man known for his bald head, hairy body and green tongue.    But this "animal" is…

  • No parking rules set

    Millstone adopts ordinance to prohibit parking on Lucas Lane and Grove School Drive. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — At the request of State Police and neighborhood residents, the Township Committee last week voted to adopt an ordinance banning parking on Lucas Lane and Grove School Drive.    Mayor Evan Maltz said the residential development neighboring the…

  • Hopewell Democrats run unopposed for council seats

    By: Ruth Luse    On Nov. 6, Hopewell Borough voters will pick two members of Hopewell Borough Council. The only candidates this year are incumbents, Alice C. Huston and David Mackie, both Democrats. No Republicans filed.    Alice C. Huston grew up in Princeton Township and has lived in Hopewell Borough for 17 years. A lifelong Mercer…

  • Trash pickup decision process will be open one

    GUEST OPINION By: Elizabeth Muoio    After reading the Hopewell Valley News article on the subject of trash removal in Pennington I’d like to provide Pennington residents with some additional information regarding current efforts to explore options for future trash service by the borough.    Solid waste removal in Pennington is currently a service provided to residents…

  • Bears edge Vikings for second at GMC cross country meet as rivalry blossoms

    By: Redd E. Patrick    With the Old Bridge High School boys cross country program taking its act to a national level, South Brunswick has developed quite a rivalry with its fellow Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division member East Brunswick on a local level.    In a class meet to open the season at Monmouth Battlefield State…

  • ‘K-Pax’

    Kevin Spacey stars as a kook from outer space in this light sci-fi comedy.   [PG-13] By: Kam Williams    It is not unusual for mental patients to have delusions of grandeur. However, most don’t entertain delusions quite as grand as Prot, a nondescript, middle-aged eccentric who claims to be from K-Pax, a remote planet in a faraway…

  • Leaf collection to begin in Hopewell Borough

       The Hopewell Borough Public Works Department will not be picking up brush after October 31. At that time the truck will be converted for use in leaf collection.    There is no set schedule for leaf collection. Leaf crews will make one pass through the entire town ending on Broad Street at which time they will…