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  • Weichert helps RELO gain sales

    Early reports indicate Weichert was top contributor in 2000    James M. Weichert, president, announces that Weichert, Realtors played a significant role in helping RELO, a network of independent real estate brokers, reach over $240 billion in sales volume in 1999, according to a recently completed market share study conducted by the network. Early reports also…

  • SBHS gains respectability

    WRESTLING: Coach Mike Andrusiewicz has brought the Vikings from the GMC cellar to the middle of the pack. By: Redd E. Patrick    When teams set goals before the season, sometimes it’s a division championship they will strive for, perhaps a county championship and if confidence is running high, nothing less than a state title will…

  • Don’t ask him about the weather —ask him about the climate

    Hillsborough resident David Robinson, 45, knew as a child he was fascinated by snowstorms and other weather related events. By: Laura Toto    "I started keeping weather records as part of a fourth-grade science lesson," he said. "I still keep records."    Though he never thought of his fascination turning out to be a career, he followed…

  • Gerenser wants his own third party

    The New Hope councilman says he’s tired of "underhanded politics" and that he will sever his ties with the Republicans to form a new political party. By: Cynthia Williamson    NEW HOPE — Disgusted with what he describes as "underhanded politics," Councilman Robert Gerenser said he’s defecting from his lifelong affiliation with local Republicans and starting…

  • Project Freedom complex advances

    48-unit Hamilton facility to be completed by late October. By: Ken Weingartner    WASHINGTON – Project Freedom Inc. plans to open its second independent living facility by the end of October.    Timothy Doherty, the organization’s executive director, said work on a 48-unit facility being constructed on Kuser Road in Hamilton for low-income people with disabilities should…

  • Local man to lead national car dealership organization

           BORDENTOWN — Automobile dealers around the nation will be looking for guidance from Bob Maguire, who was named chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association last month at its annual convention in Las Vegas. By:David Koch    "I am the spokesperson for the franchise car dealers of America," said Mr. Maguire in his office at…

  • Hopewell Township wants to save 19th-century Jacob’s Creek bridge

    Township officials want to help Mercer make decisions By:John Tredrea    One of the two remaining cast iron bridges on public roadways in Hopewell Township is scheduled to be replaced by Mercer County within the next 18 months or so, but township officials hope upcoming talks with the county will produce a plan to save the…

  • Mercer’s burial places, topic for history group March 15

       "A Pictorial Tour of Old and Noteworthy Graveyards of Mercer County" will be the presentation program for the Hopewell Valley Historical Society’s March meeting.    Edward J. Raser of Lawrenceville present a 50-minute slide tour of many of the burial places of Mercer County. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 15,…

  • Fund-raising fun

    Children of all ages paid a visit to annual nursery school carnival    For grownups, it was a day to prepare for an impending snow storm. For the kids, however, games were to be played and prizes won. Hot dogs were available, with rolls disappearing faster than the dogs. A magician performed at noon.    It was…