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  • R&R fund-raiser needs and deserves residents’ support

    EDITORIAL By: Ruth Luse    This Sunday afternoon, at the McDougald family’s barn off Old Mill Road in Hopewell Township, a key fund-raising event will take place.    This fund-raiser — which has been held in this and similar forms over many years — helps to support an educational and recreational program that began more years ago…

  • Township officials recommend CHS parking lot changes

       A new parking lot being built at Hopewell Valley Central High School should be made smaller and its water quality safeguards tightened, the Hopewell Township Planning Board said in a unanimous vote June 14 By: John Tredrea    A new parking lot being built at Hopewell Valley Central High School should be made smaller and its…

  • Baseball crowd enjoys Manvillesinger’s anthem performance

    Some baseball fans said he was the best singer they had heard in years. By:Laura Pelner    His mother said she had goose bumps during the performance.    Mickey Vantaggi, an 11-year-old Manville resident, sang the national anthem at the Somerset Patriots minor league baseball game on June 13 to a crowd of about 3,000. He said…

  • Insect safari

    Students at Sharon School learn all about bugs. By:    WASHINGTON — There’s something to say about the unspoken curriculum. Cooperation, concentration and commitment can be infinitely invaluable tools to higher academic learning. Yet all are not necessarily built into the average middle school curriculum.    The students at the Pond Road Middle School explored through athletic…

  • Divine intervention

    The Rev. Jerry DeVan says he felt guided to the Crossroads Youth Center on South Main Street. By: Frank C. D’Amico    ALLENTOWN — The Rev. Jerry DeVan says he felt guided to the Crossroads Youth Center on South Main Street.    The Rev. DeVan recently was selected director for a fledgling youth program at the center.…

  • Injured cyclist still critical

       A Plainsboro bicyclist remained in the intensive care unit at Capital Health Systems at Fuld Wednesday after he was injured when his bicycle collided with a 2001 Ford Explorer on Eggert Crossing Road Monday.    Yao Chao, 26, of Hampshire Drive in Plainsboro was riding his bicycle eastbound on Eggert Crossing Road at 7:22 p.m. Monday…

  • School computers are under-used

    Letter to the editor    The taxpayers have spent a large sum on technology in the Lawrence Township school district, yet was this necessary? The district has an above average student-to-computer ratio compared to the state average (4.1 students for every 1 computer, compared to 4.8-to-1), and a below average student-faculty ratio (14.1 students for every…

  • Township creates new police position

       SPRINGFIELD — Faced with the loss of federal grant money, the Township Council voted last week to create a new full-time police position, bringing the township police force up to eight full-time officers. By:Vanessa S. Holt    A federal COPS (Community Oriented Police Services) grant for Springfield was approved in 1996 for five full-time officers, said…

  • Browdowski to finish career with all-star football game

       In a few years from now, the Bordentown Athletic Hall of Fame will open its doors to John Brodowski.    But for now, Brodowski has one game left in his great high school career – Saturday’s Adam Taliaserro All-Star football game at Rowan College. By:Sean Moylan    Brodowski is arguably the greatest all-around athlete in the history…