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  • Florence football’s defense does job in latest victory

    By:Sean Moylan    Sean Moylan?Sports Writer?        With both defenses playing so well in the second half, the Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity football team’s slim one-point, fourth-quarter lead (14-13) against Palmyra felt more like a two-touchdown advantage.    Amazingly, with two remarkable defensive touchdowns by the Flashes’ Kirk Buddenbaum and Rich Bergeron in the…

  • Police search for suspect after futile raid

    Cops surround house across from Ben Franklin School    Police continued their search Wednesday for an alleged attacker after cordoning off a portion of Princeton Pike in front of the Benjamin Franklin School Monday afternoon while surrounding a house across the street from the school in search of him.    Burglary, assault and weapons charges were lodged…

  • The moon: Earth’s beautiful, luminous friend and neighbor

       Sometimes I wish man hadn’t landed on the moon.    I say this not because I’m opposed to scientific advancement, but because I have a fanciful heart.    Somehow, the presence of man on the moon is so clinical. Gone is the mystique of what this gorgeous next-door neighbor could be hiding. What incredible fuel for the…

  • Township plans to lower speed limits

    Four roads targeted By:John Tredrea    At the suggestion the Mayors’ Task Force on Trucks and Traffic, the full Hopewell Township Committee voted unanimously Oct. 17 to introduce an ordinance under which speed limits on two township roads would be reduced.    The proposed ordinance, scheduled for a public hearing and adoption vote Nov. 2, would reduce…

  • VFW action was swift, sure and right

    THE MANVILLE NEWS EDITORIAL — Oct. 26, 2000 By:The Manville News    Hats off to the members and leaders of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2290 for their swift and decisive action last Tuesday to keep a racist organization out of the VFW hall.    The Nationalist Movement, a group based in Learned, Miss., had planned to…

  • Taking from the rich, giving to the poor

    By:Christian Kirkpatrick    Molly Benson is a middle-aged woman with more money than sense, and more heart than either, who bangs around her hometown of Princeton, looking for chances to right wrongs in the Third Word.    She is the heroine of "Loving Graham Greene" (Random House, $22.95), Gloria Emerson’s first novel, which was called in a…

  • Joseph E. Hoyle Sr.

       EWING – Joseph E. Hoyle Sr., 81, died Oct. 21 at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., he lived in Ewing several years.    He worked as a longshoreman, retiring after more than 30 years.    He was an Army veteran of World War II and also served with the Merchant Marines.…

  • Genome in a bottle

    Biotechnology offers great promise for new medicine By: Molly Bloom    The recent mapping of the human genome and other developments in biotechnology have great promise for the future of medicine. Yet this opportunity is still very much a promise, not a reality, according to Dr. John Baumann, president of the medical and dental staff at…

  • New Jersey voters on the road to a better quality of life

    By:Michele S. Byers        "So, you’re from New Jersey? What exit?"    If we had a dollar for every time a New Jerseyan was subjected to this charming little quip, the race to preserve our open space would be over. We could simply buy all our remaining open space, with change left over.    In reality, open…