Category: archives
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Candidate helped explain tax bill
To the editor It is hard to get by on just a Social Security check and small pension. Everything seems to be going up. Sometimes it scares me to think about what will happen in the next four years. The other day I sat down with Bob Mack, our deputy mayor of Hillsborough, and told…
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Council OKs deputy chief position
"My duties take me out into the community, and a restructuring would leave no question who is in charge in my absence." -Chief Michael Paquette By: Melissa Morgan The Township Council has approved plans to appoint a deputy police chief. The council voted 4-1 in favor of the plan, which was proposed by Police Chief…
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GMCT opening acts a hit for Vikes
Rout trend maintained against JFK girls By: Carolyn M. Hartko Most of the first round games in this year’s Greater Middlesex Conference Girls’ Soccer Tournament were offensive romps for the higher seeded team, and the game at South Brunswick High School on Tuesday followed the pattern. The 3rd-seeded Vikings rolled to a 6-1 victory over…
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Mystery letter was not tainted with anthrax
The Police Department and township clerk’s office were closed briefly Oct. 18 after a white powder leaked from an envelope. By: Lea Kahn A white powder that made its way into the municipal building last week through a piece of mail was not anthrax, township Health Officer Carol Howell said Monday. The envelope containing the…
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NJ Transit expands rail study
A new route creates more options for the Middlesex-Ocean-Monmouth rail line. By: Melissa Morgan NJ Transit has announced it has expanded the scope of an environmental impact study on rail alternatives in Central Jersey to include a third possible train line. The study will focus on three options, all part of the Middlesex-Ocean-Monmouth rail study:…
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Squibb fire brigade aids in bio-threat war
In addition to providing mutual aid, the BM-S hazmat team collects and distributes information about potential threats. By: Lea Kahn Neighbors help neighbors. This concept seems to be at work in the way Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. makes its emergency response teams available to area towns, including Lawrence, for mutual aid. Most recently, the company’s fire…
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Allis Beaumont Reid
Allis Beaumont Reid, 89, of South Wheelock, Vt., died Tuesday at her daughter’s home in Hopewell Township. Born in Cleveland, she lived in Vermont many years. She was an associate of the Sisters of Mercy in Burlington (Vt.) and the Area Agency on Aging in Vermont. Wife of the late Charles Ker Reid II and…
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MHS offense struggles at Brearley
Shut out for second time this season By: Shawn Tyrrell KENILWORTH Sometimes a team just doesn’t play its best game. Whatever the reason turnovers, mistakes, or dropped passes all those shortcomings in one way or another were contributors in the Manville High football team’s 21-0 loss to David Brearley. On a day…
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Letters to the editor
For the week of October 25. By: Voters should reject private agenda To the editor: Lest the Allentown voters forget, Stephanie Smith is involved in her own "Boundary Line Battle with the Borough." Ms. Smith wants you to believe that she has been deceived by the borough and indeed persecuted by outlandish behavior on the…
