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  • School briefs, Feb. 22, 2001

    Special needs meeting in Hopewell    Hopewell Elementary School parents of children with special needs will have an opportunity to share their questions and concerns, hopes and dreams for their children with staff members at the school on Monday, March 5, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the media center.    Principal Steve Cochrane; kindergarten teacher Joan Smith;…

  • Girls basketball puts together great finish

    AHS looks to make the most of time remaining in season. By: Kyle Moylan    The members of the Allentown High School girls’ basketball team can not go back in time. They have to settle for the next best thing — making the most of the time they have left this season.    Chances are Allentown would…

  • All township taxpayers to foot Trenton sewer debt

    Enabling ordinance got needed votes on Feb. 15 By:John Tredrea    As expected — all four committee members already had publicly declared, in no uncertain terms, how they were going to vote — the Hopewell Township Committee voted 4-0 Feb. 15 to adopt a bond ordinance under which the $2.1 million debt on the dead Trenton…

  • POLICE BEAT 02/22

    From the Feb. 22 edition of the Register-News By: FLORENCE    Police responding to several reports of a vehicle driving erratically on three wheels through Roebling last week arrested a 39-year-old Bordentown City woman on drunken driving and other charges, police said.    About 9:50 p.m. on Feb. 16, police said they found the vehicle, a heavily…

  • ‘The Romeo Club’ loves starting the day at cafe

    That’s ‘Retired Old Men Eating Out,’ in case you were wondering. By: David Weinstein    Call them an eclectic Princeton goulash.    Thursday morning, they were nine strong around a table at The Cafe, a coffee bar at Bargain Books in the Princeton Shopping Center.    Some days they are 13 strong — a full group — though…

  • William Pfitzinger

       William Pfitzinger, 92, died Sunday, Feb. 18, at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton.    Born in Trenton, he lived in Lawrenceville 60 years.    He retired in 1977 after 57 years as assistant chief engineer assistant general superintendent for Trenton Water Works.    He was a member of American Waterworks Association and Mercer Lodge 50 Free…

  • Around Allentown

    AROUND ALLENTOWN by Julie Gartland: A look at events and happenings in the area. By:    The Upper Freehold Regional Elementary/Middle School girls’ varsity basketball team is this year’s Tri-County co-champion (along with Millstone). The Upper Freehold team finished the season with an overall record of 10-4.    The Upper Freehold girls’ junior varsity basketball team finished…

  • Ledger staff members win press awards

       The New Jersey Press Association announced the winners of its 2000 Better Newspaper Contest last Saturday and The Ledger is proud to report awards for its staff.    Former Managing Editor T.J. Furman won first place in the editorial section layout and content category for weekly newspapers with a circulation under 4,500.    He also won third…

  • Agency to control Roebling steel mill

           FLORENCE — A ruling by a Superior Court judge last week effectively gives ownership of the 234-acre Roebling Steel Mill site to the Florence Township Redevelopment Agency. The court-ordered deadline for objections to the site’s condemnation was last Friday. By:Vanessa S. Holt    "I was excited because no one showed up at the hearing," said…