Category: archives
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Serving a winner
Former college volleyball star helps Washington start program for teens. By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON She could have been a softball star. When Christina Rogers was a sophomore high school student in Maryland, she envisioned herself going to college on an athletic scholarship for softball. But a friend convinced her to try out for volleyball.…
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Council may reduce development area
SPRINGFIELD The amount of land zoned for commercial development along Route 206 would be considerably reduced under an ordinance that is expected to be considered by the Township Council next month. By:Vanessa S. Holt The proposal seeks to preserve the township’s rural character with a zoning change that would keep Route 206 more in…
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NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 08/23
From the Aug. 23 edition of the Register-News By: 120 years ago Some time ago we mentioned the strange fact that John Rogers, son of the undertaker, dislocated his jaw while in the act of sneezing. John was then naturally frightened and couldn’t get a physician too soon. Since then, however, he has had several…
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Anna Cherniak
HILLSBOROUGH Anna (Shutack) Cherniak passed away Tuesday, Aug. 21, at home. She was 95. Born in Barnesboro, Pa., she came to Manville in 1917 but lived most of her life in the Finderne Section of Bridgewater before moving to the home of her daughter in 1986. Mrs. Cherniak was a homemaker and a member…
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Raymond Sayre, 72
Raymond Sayre, 72, of Titusville died Monday at the Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Nanticoke, Pa., he was the owner of the Ray Sayre State Farm Insurance Agency in Mercerville with over 34 years of service and had resided in the Harbourton area for the last 12 years. He was a member of the…
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Clarksburg School to see renovations
Township Committee appropriates funds to bring historic structure up to date. By: Scott Morgan MILLSTONE The Clarksburg School is in need of repair, and the Township Committee is taking action to mend the problems. The committee last week introduced an ordinance that authorizes the issuance of $380,000 bonds and notes to help bring the…
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Newell needs to be remembered
BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman: First of two parts. By: Allentown has the distinction of being "that little town on the way to the shore." In the mid-19th century, William Newell found his way from the shore to Allentown, which became his primary home. At the corner where Route 539 turns to the shore, a…
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Man, 42, critical after head-on crash with dump truck
The Titusville man’s minivan, carrying his wife and two children as well, was hit head-on by a loaded dump truck on Route 29, near the Golden Nugget flea market, site of a fiery fatal crash nearly two years before that killed a truck driver. By: Cynthia Williamson WEST AMWELL A 42-year-old Hopewell Township man…
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FEMA grant makes LPS flood-proof
Sen. Robert Torricelli and Rep. Rush Holt tour elementary school to inspect repairs being made after Tropical Storm Floyd dumped 19 inches of rain into the building. By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE The installation of new flood-proof doors and windows is almost complete at Lambertville Public School, where sandbags have had to be issued along…
