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  • Another column to clip out and add to your collection

    MOST THINGS CONSIDERED By:Minx McCloud    I’ve come to realize that there is a fine line between "collecting" and "obsession."    A fan of mythology, fantasy and ethereal creatures, I began collecting unicorns many years ago, right before a veritable unicorn craze began. I tried to find unicorns in a variety of mediums: crystal, pewter, ceramic, wood,…

  • Two-year-old cancer victim could use community’s help

    By:Janet Purcell    Two-year old Lindsay Fennimore, granddaughter of Hopewell Borough residents Kathy and David Hair, recently was diagnosed with Childhood Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL).    Last October, her family noticed that she bruised easily, a typical symptom that parents first notice and question. "We took her to the doctor who did a blood test and gave…

  • Book Notes

    Remembering the Blizzard of ’88 By: Joan Ruddiman    In March of 1888, the mid-Atlantic and northeast regions were hit not once, but twice in as many days but a raging blizzard. No one, from the fledging weather service to the folks out for a Saturday stroll in the park, saw anything but more spring-like weather…

  • PU men take New York teams by storm

    Tigers sit in first-place tie with Penn, Yale By: Justin Feil    Despite a myriad of roster changes that began this summer and have continued into the first Ivy League weekend, some things haven’t changed for the Princeton University men’s basketball team.    Like beating Cornell and then beating Columbia.    The Tigers dispatched of each of the…

  • Deadly plane crash takes 11 lives in late summer of 2000

       This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting some of the events of 2000 as reported in the Register-News. The following dates reflect the issue of the newspaper in which the story was published. By:Michael Maugeri    This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting some of the events of 2000 as…

  • How to honor Csapo’s memory

       A thank-you goes out to all of those honoring the memory of the late Gail Csapo, a Bordentown City woman killed in a car accident in 1999. By:    A thank-you goes out to all of those honoring the memory of the late Gail Csapo, a Bordentown City woman killed in a car accident in 1999.…

  • Township officials seek public’s input on proposed open space plan

       The Hopewell Township Committee will hold a second public hearing at its meeting tonight at 7 p.m. on a proposed open space plan that is "aimed at helping to protect the Hopewell Valley’s unique rural character," according to Committeewoman Kathy Bird.    Adoption of an open space plan after two public hearings is required in order…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 01/18

    From the Jan. 18 edition of the Register-News 100 years ago    Chester Freeland, a nephew of Mrs. J.R. Read, of this city, was killed last Saturday near his home at Halethorpe, Ind., by an express train on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad. He was watching some workmen, and did not hear the approaching train.    An…

  • Builders’ Brief

    Intimacy and convenience found at Hillsborough Point The Packet Group    Award winning homebuilder Pennington Properties recently broke ground at Hillsborough Point, a new active-adult community in Hillsborough, Somerset County, N.J.    Similar to the builder’s Lawrenceville Point community in Lawrenceville, and its sold-out Pennington Point in Pennington, the new community offers maintenance-free homes in an intimate…