Category: archives

  • Snow job: Blizzard preparations for naught

    Supermarkets, municipalities sit and wait for the storm that never arrived. By: Mark Moffa    It was to be The Big One. The Blizzard of 2001. Total snow accumulations could top 2 feet.    Area residents blitzed supermarkets, stocking up on everything from bottled water to toilet paper.    Weather forecasters warned of the impending monster. News reports…

  • Local wrongful death suit filed

           MOUNT HOLLY — Two relatives of a Fieldsboro man with sickle-cell anemia who died after a struggle with police in 1999 recently filed a wrongful death suit in Superior Court, alleging that police actions contributed to the death of the 28-year-old. By:Vanessa S. Holt    Fieldsboro residents Cubie Miles, mother of the late Cleathern Miles…

  • Culinary Corner

    Recipes of the week, ideas, measurements, and ideas. Full Stories

  • Shooting highlights need for classroom preparation

    Schools’ lock-down drills designed to help prevent similar occurance here By:Laura Toto        Hillsborough schools have taken steps to help prevent violent incidents such as Monday’s school shooting that killed two students at Santana High School in Santee, Calif.    While saying the chance of a similar incident here is slight, school officials have taken precautionary…

  • District hires test consultant

    The district will pay about $2,000 for a review of the results of the state ESPA test that Lawrence students took in the spring of 2000. By: Lea Kahn    Hoping to uncover elementary school students’ weaknesses, the Lawrence Township Board of Education has hired a consultant to review the results of the state Elementary School…

  • Former mayor arrested again

           MOUNT HOLLY — Former Springfield Township Mayor John Green was arrested March 1 and charged with contempt for the second time in a month after failing to appear in court in connection with an investigation by the state Bureau of Securities. By:Vanessa S. Holt    Mr. Green was placed in handcuffs at about 12:30 p.m.…

  • Council eyes lower tax hike

    The tax rate increase stands at 3 cents. The original proposed budget included an increase of 5 cents. By: Matthew Armstrong    The Township Council plans to keep whittling away at a proposed tax hike, after cutting the increase by nearly half since the budget was first unveiled in January.    The council voted 4-1 to introduce…

  • Embracing the poetry of the samurai

    The samurai of Japan were more than warriors, they were also poets, as third-graders at the Dayton School learned. By: Amanda Bok    He rang the gong and everything stopped.    The small library at the Dayton School ceased being a library, the third-graders sitting on the floor stopped being students and teachers stopped having to admonish…

  • Students celebrate Dr. Suess

    Students from the Upper Elementary School spent an hour reading to kindergartners from the Dayton-Deans School last week as part of Read Across American, an annual celebration of Dr. Suess’ birthday. By: Amanda Bok    Dayton-Deans kindergartner Elizabeth Ajose was enthralled.    She leaned her head on sixth-grader Josh Cohen’s shoulder. She was cheerful but quiet, engrossed…