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  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, May 17, 2001

    Sewer plan support To the editor:     This letter is to show my full support for the Hopewell Township Committee’s efforts to provide the regional service alternative through ELSA and SBRSA to all involved neighborhoods, recently presented in Van Cleef’s Selected Wastewater Alternatives report.    In particular I support the committee unanimously voting, at the next…

  • Steve Timko is ‘reliable, responsible, respectful’

    GUEST COLUMN By: Ron Grossman    Steve Timko — Hopewell Valley Central High School will miss you and it thanks you for all you have given to it.    Steve, a South Plainfield native, did not come to HoVal right after his graduation from Western Kentucky. He taught first for six years in Louisville and then three…

  • SCHOOL BOARD BRIEFS

    Timko’s resignation accepted; special ed supervisor leaving By: John Tredrea    A group of personnel actions approved by a single unanimous vote of the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Monday night included formal acceptance of the resignation of Steve Timko, the school district’s athletic director and K-12 physical education supervisor. Mr. Timko worked in Hopewell…

  • The gateway to America

    Three third-grade classes at the Constable School participated in an Ellis Island simulation. By: Casha Caponegro    The crowd of weary immigrants, exhausted from their arduous journey, eagerly waited to enter the examining room at Ellis Island. They were weighed down with backpacks and luggage, but nothing could lessen the excitement of finally arriving in the…

  • Pulte single-family homes

    Fieldwood Estates and Fieldwood Manors are two distinct Cherry Valley Road communities    Pulte’s four-bedroom single-family homes have gourmet kitchens with a center island, libraries, family rooms with fireplaces, gracious living rooms, formal dining rooms, master suites with tray, boxed or vaulted ceilings, two- or three-car garages, basements and up to three and one-half baths. Depending…

  • Skyland competition too much for Raiders

    Willard, Robinson, Flores win titles By: Rudy Brandl    For the first time since 1997, Hillsborough High didn’t crown at least one team champion at the Skyland Conference Championships.    The Raider boys saw their three-year Skyland reign end last week, while the HHS girls suffered another disappointing day at the North Hunterdon facility. Somerville captured its…

  • High school students use spring break to go globe-hopping

    Several dozen local students flew to Europe, visiting either Spain, France or Greece. By: Amanda Bok    For some high school students, spring break was a time to hide the alarm clock, put away the books and relax at home with friends and family.    For others, it was a time for adventure.    That is the case…

  • District raises grad standards

       Graduating from Lawrence High School just got a little tougher, under new graduation standards adopted by the Lawrence Township Board of Education at its May 9 meeting. By: Lea Kahn    Beginning with the Lawrence High School Class of 2005 — the district’s current eighth-graders — students must take 25 credits to graduate. The new guideline…

  • ‘Strides’ event helps disease research

    Six local children suffer from cystic fibrosis, Sunday’s ‘Great Strides’ seeks to help fund research By:Laura Toto    Jonathan Standley, a seventh-grader in the middle school, is pretty much like every other kid — he loves model rocketing, basketball, biking, playing piano and flying airplanes.    But Jonathan differs from the rest of his classmates because he…