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  • Amsterdam makes philately an Olympic event

    Parade kicks off annual drive to reach 1 million stamps By:Laura Toto    Amsterdam School Principal Nancy Richmond carried an Olympic torch and led a parade in front of Amsterdam School while students cheered.    But this wasn’t any normal Olympics event. It was a special event to kick off another year of the school’s campaign to…

  • Halloween images were much more fun in older days

       Horror movies and Halloween seem to have gone hand-in-bloody-hand in popular culture for most of the 20th century.    Try to remember Halloween before movie monsters or psycho killers took over and you’ll probably wind up with a ghost costume made out of a bed sheet.    But to me, Halloween just hasn’t been the same since…

  • Services set for Larry Hunt

    Funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Old Rocks Church J. Larry Hunt    WEST AMWELL – John L. "Larry" Hunt, 62, died Tuesday, Oct. 24, from injuries suffered in an auto accident in East Amwell.    Born in Doylestown, Pa., he was a longtime West Amwell resident.    Mr. Hunt was a self-employed farmer, a…

  • OBITUARIES 10/26

    From the Oct. 26 edition of the Register-News By: Charles R. Betz    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – Charles R. Betz, 72, died Oct. 18 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, he was a longtime resident before moving to Bordentown two years ago.    He retired after 25 years as a detective with the…

  • Summer schedule approved for school work

    Board hopes to minimize impact on students By:Laura Toto    The school board voted 10-0 to limit construction work and repairs at Hillsborough Middle School primarily to the summers of 2001 and 2002, at a special meeting on Tuesday. Board member Lou Possemato was not present.    The project, approved in an Oct. 3 referendum, will convert…

  • Borough would benefit from utility sale

    To the editor:    On Nov. 7, the voters of Manville are going to be faced with many tough decisions, from electing a new president to two Borough Council members, but none of these positions will affect us as directly as the decision to sell or keep the water company which we now own.    The decision…

  • CIL dinner to honor Indik award winner

    Volunteer to be recognized for work By: Matthew Armstrong    Citizens for Independent Living is hosting a night of dinner and dancing Nov. 4 to raise money for its residents and to bestow the Barry Indik Award to a township resident for outstanding community service.    CIL, a South Brunswick-based nonprofit organization, provides housing and services such…

  • Scotties’ football defense dominates the Bears

    By:Sean Moylan        A week after putting on a passing clinic against Burlington Township, the Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity football team put on a defensive clinic in a 12-9 home triumph against a tenacious Delran squad.    The Bears came into Bordentown looking to maul and claw the Scotties into submission. Instead, the Scotties…

  • School board creates new building account

    Fund is requirement for state money    Aiming to comply with the recently passed Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act, the township Board of Education has established a capital reserve account. By: Lea Kahn    The new law, passed in July, provides some state funding for eligible school building projects – provided a school district creates a…