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  • Phil Petrone helping to organize charity’s event

       Borough Clerk Phil Petrone is helping to plan the March of Dimes North Jersey annual Casino Night event, which raises money to help lifesaving mission of improving the lives of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality.    Mr. Petrone was named to the organization’s Casino Night Committee, which will plan the event scheduled for…

  • Schools boost security

    Cameras will monitor Greenbrook school. By: Nick D’Amore    Surveillance cameras will be installed at Greenbrook School earlier than expected, due in part to evidence loosely linking the surrounding area with an anthrax-laced letter sent to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle last week.    Superintendent Sam Stewart said there had been plans to place cameras in…

  • Democrat’s ad misleading voters

    To the editor    In the past month plus, I’ve become renewed with the patriotism and American spirit that has so wonderfully swept across this great country. It has been such a welcome sight — the American flags everywhere and the nicer attitude embraced by so many. That bubble was burst in a political cable ad…

  • Reader to vote for Republicans

    LEDGER FORUM    I applaud The Ledger’s recent headline stating that the Democrats’ campaign material cannot be supported. The story raises several questions.    Why are the Democratic candidates lying about Rick Miller’s record on open space? Is it because they have no record of their own? Is it that they don’t check and double-check their facts?…

  • Robbers hit 7-Eleven twice in one month

       Robberies have occurred at the Lawrence Road convenience store Oct. 7 and on Tuesday.    Two masked robbers escaped with an undetermined amount of money and four cartons of cigarettes from the 7-Eleven convenience store on Lawrence Road, near Notre Dame High School, Tuesday morning, police said.    The men entered the store around 1 a.m., police…

  • Campaign funding under scrutiny

    Role of Millstone Coalition comes into question by Township Committee candidate. By: Ken Weingartner    MILLSTONE — There is no doubt among those running for Township Committee that the Millstone Coalition is a smoke screen.    The debate between candidates John Pfefferkorn, running as an independent, and Republican Greg Bellotti is for whom.    Mr. Pfefferkorn has been…

  • DISPATCHES: We need to help refugees of new war

    "What is needed is a broader approach to solving the refugee crisis that includes a long-term plan for providing food in the region." By: Hank Kalet    The pictures are grim, but not unexpected.    We’ve seen them before, the masses of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters trudging across the desert, through the mountains or valley,…

  • Washington gets permission to leave LHS

    Education department says district can end relationship and move ahead with high school plan. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — The state Department of Education last week gave Washington’s Board of Education permission to end its sending-receiving relationship with the Lawrence School District.    Chris Mullins, business administrator for the Washington school board, said the state granted…

  • Halloween fun on tap at township

    By:Alec Moore    The Hillsborough Recreation Department is calling all of the township’s young ghouls, ghosts, werewolves and goblins for an afternoon of fright-filled Halloween fun, starting Friday at 4:15 p.m. at the municipal complex at South Branch Road and Beekman Lane.    Festivities will include pumpkin decorating, games, music and treat bags for all the little…