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  • S.A.F.E. gets contract extension

    Program in Washington Township gets deal through 2004; sees enrollment on the rise. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — As Assistant Director Melissa Csillan is busy signing T-shirts, Director Marci Rubin is taking pictures. This day marks the conclusion of eight weeks of hard work.    It’s the last day of the S.A.F.E. summer camp in Washington…

  • Family ties

    Somerset Valley Players’ production features five pairs of relatives By: Regina Tan    When Somerset Valley Theatre director Linda Neri chose the cast of "The Sound of Music," she wasn’t looking to keep it in the family. Instead, she kept it in five families.    The show, which opens Sept. 7, will feature performances by one married…

  • Coming up big

    HORSE PLAY by Ken Weingartner: Washington 10-year-old earns top honors at fair. By:    Jessica Kraemer has spent half her life riding horses.    Given the fact she’s only 10, that probably doesn’t seem like much of an accomplishment. But what she’s done in that decade deserves notice.    Jessica, a Washington resident who lives near the border…

  • Committeeman requests road study

    Wants analysis of residential roads located near Hamilton Marketplace site. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Committeeman Vince Calcagno this month suggested the township perform a traffic analysis of residential roads between Robbinsville-Allentown Road (Route 526) and Route 195 to prepare for the possible impact of the Hamilton Marketplace.    Traffic on Richardson Road, Ivanhoe Drive, Circle…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Aug. 30, 2001

    Now back at square one! To the editor:     My mother and I own 10 acres located at the northwest corner of Route 31 and Marshalls Corner-Woodsville Road, diagonally across the street from Pennytown. For some reason, our property seems to be ground zero in Hopewell Township’s attempt to rezone the township.    We have owned…

  • Food for the Soul

    If New Jersey poet laureate Gerald Stern has his way, public libraries will have many more volumes of poetry, tapping into our state’s wealth of native talent. By: Susan Van Dongen    At a typical public library in a town just outside of Trenton, there are dozens of books about auto repair, crafts, fashion, interior decorating…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of Aug. 30. By: Only ‘selfish, heartless’ could support high school To the editor:    To me and those of my generation, humanity and love of community come from the heart. So many things that at first seem amazingly complex turn out amazingly simple. The purely elemental has a way of ambushing itself…

  • New Egypt to see new parking lot

    Construction on 37-space lot should be completed by November. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — Parking in New Egypt is about to get a little easier thanks to a new lot the township will construct on the former site of the Plumsted Branch of the Ocean County Library on Evergreen Road, Mayor Ron Dancer said.    Construction…

  • Township Committee adopts sign ordinance

    Law reduces the size and height of signs permitted around Millstone. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — The Township Committee adopted an ordinance to reduce the size and height of signs around the township.    Mayor Evan Maltz said the ordinance is something the Township Committee felt was necessary to preserve the beauty of the township.    "We…