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  • Girls soccer team better than record

    By: Neil Hay    For 70 minutes the Allentown girls’ soccer team stayed with Hopewell Valley, giving as well as taking. For 70 minutes the Redbirds battled the CVC Valley Division leaders.    The Bulldogs scored twice in the game’s final 10 minutes for a 2-0 win.    Certainly Allentown Coach Mike Bianchini could not ask more of…

  • Melvin C. Balunis, 54

       Melvin C. Balunis, 54, died Monday, Sept. 17, at his home in Kendall Park.    He was born in Somerville and had lived in Somerset before moving to Kendall Park in 1986.    He was employed as a postal worker with the United States Post Office’s Joyce Kilmer Division for 28 years. He was a proud veteran…

  • Plumsted receives additional grant money

    TOWN TALK by Ronald Dancer: News from Plumsted Township. By:    The Township Committee applied for and received notification of a $60,000 grant award from the Community Development Block Grant Program to construct an additional rest room facility near the Picnic Pavilion at our Recreation Park. Deputy Mayor Joe Przywara is our representative for this grant…

  • Our countrywill recover

    To the editor    I wrote a poem this morning for the people we all lost. Some friends said I should send it to you. Pond of Tears We heard another touching story today About the families of the World Trade Center attack. After we finished talking I noticed I drank Another glass of water as…

  • Spirit Week under way at AHS

    BUZZ IN THE HALLS by Pam Koharchik: A look at events at Allentown High School. By: It’s hard to believe, but another Spirit Week has hit the school. This year’s homecoming game is a bit early, Sept. 29, but that hasn’t changed the intensity of the competition for most spirited class. As of the writing…

  • Township adopts bond, equipment ordinances

    By: John Tredrea    Public works equipment and improvements to municipal buildings and grounds are covered by a $1.244 million bond ordinance unanimously approved in an adoption vote cast by the Hopewell Township Committee Sept. 20.    The ordinance was introduced by a unanimous committee vote Sept. 6. Under the ordinance, the committee can appropriate $1,310,000, this…

  • William George McGuffin, 69

       William George McGuffin, 69, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Oklahoma City, he was a resident of Kendall Park for the past 41 years.    A retired electrical engineer, he worked for RCA in Princeton for 32 years. He had been a sergeant in the Marines.    William loved to sail…

  • Reflections on standing by at Ground Zero on Sept. 16

    I have been to hell and it is the World Trade Center, Ground Zero By: Janet Crum    I have been to hell and it is the World Trade Center, Ground Zero.    The alarm clock sounded at 3:15 a.m., after a restless short night of sleep. Time to finish preparations for the special assignment — Union/Titusville…

  • No success in township’s search for flags

       Plans for the rescheduled Memorial Day events in Hillsborough have taken on new meaning, and instead of an Octoberfest originally planned, the township will observe a Day of Pride and Patriotism on Oct. 6.    The day will begin with a parade, starting at 10 a.m., that will make its way from Auten Road and Triangle…