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  • New parking plan is an unnecessary

    Letter to the editor:    At its Sept. 4 meeting, the Lawrence Township Council will vote on an ordinance establishing permit parking during certain hours and days on certain municipal streets. This ordinance was introduced with a 3-2 vote in response to the situation created by large numbers of students parking their cars on streets across…

  • NBC field hockey hoping to move back into playoffs

    Team welcomes back five new returning varsity stars By:Sean Moylan    The 2001 Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity field hockey team will feature five returning varsity stars (Dusty Archer, Danny Walder, Jackie Mitchell, Justine Tomasso and Kelly Restuccia) and a junior standout, Stacey Morgan.    Archer, a third-year varsity player, will play an attack…

  • District hires 52 teachers

    The toughest immediate challenge for the district will be to find an industrial arts teacher before classes begin. By: Lea Kahn    When the district’s students walk through the schoolhouse doors next week, they will be greeted by a new middle school principal and 52 new teachers.    Increasing enrollments, an aging teaching staff and resignations have…

  • ‘Summer Catch’

    Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jessica Biel star in this predictable romantic comedy.   [PG-13] By: Kam Williams    Heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr. has built a remarkable career on a string of rather unremarkable films that revolve around his matinee-idol good looks. In She’s All That (1999), Down to You (2000), Boys and Girls (2000) and Head Over Heels…

  • Florence Pop Warner out to tackle another title

    Kids looking to repeat last year’s victory By:Sean Moylan    This fall, the defending championship Florence Flashes 145-pound Pop Warner football team can win by losing.    Weight, that is.    "If Joe Spahn, Abree Jones, Tim Moran and Gerald Walker can make weight, then we’ll have a real nice year," said Steve Muchowski, the head coach of…

  • WHAT’S COOKIN’? 08/30

    From the Aug. 30 edition of the Register-News By:    You never know where you’re going to be when stumbling upon a good recipe.    Take, for instance, the story of Chesterfield Township’s Anne Nagren.    "The first recipe I have (to submit) comes to me through my sister’s mother-in-law, who, while having lunch with a friend in…

  • Use of SBRSA mains could save township areas big bucks

    Engineer Pogorzelski says "great savings" in cost could be realized if Pennington agreed to let the neighborhoods send their sewage to Pennington’s treatment plant via the borough’s existing sewer lines By: John Tredrea    Six Hopewell Township neighborhoods — five of them near Pennington Borough — could be served by yet-to-be-built public sewers much more cheaply…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 08/30

    From the Aug. 30 edition of the Register-News By: 125 years ago    This section of New Jersey is literally alive with potatoe bugs. They have even been seen crawling along the railroad platforms.    The ladies of the Fieldsboro M.E. Church held a peach festival in Good Templar Hall last evening.    Henry Howell, formerly of Bordentown,…

  • Timberlane Middle to open with 895 pupils, new principal

    Mike Fitzpatrick, who spent 12 years leading the junior (middle) school now is the chief administrator at Hopewell. Steve Cochrane, who spent seven years at Hopewell, began duties at the six-eight middle school July 1. By: Ruth Luse    Timberlane Middle School and Hopewell Elementary School have traded principals.    Mike Fitzpatrick, who spent 12 years leading…