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  • Recreation Committee sponsors bicycle tour

    By:Jeff Mikalaitis        MANSFIELD – The Township Recreation Committee is sponsoring a bike tour of the municipality, called "Mansfield Township’s Tri-Hamlet Bike Tour 2000," to be held rain or shine on Oct. 22.    Mayor Kelly Shea said he expects about 100 people to participate in the event, which will take cyclists through the villages of…

  • Mind your business and let me freeze

    MOST THINGS CONSIDERED by Minx McCloud A cool autumn breeze blew and I could almost see my breath as I walked to the grocery store early Sunday morning. I swung my arms energetically, happy to be alive.    For about five minutes.    An elderly woman walked toward me, dressed to the teeth for winter, including a…

  • Library’s roots run deep in public schools

    GUEST COLUMN By:Georgiana Holovach    The library had its beginnings long before the Year 1960. When it began is documented in a study report dated January 1959. It was a very interesting study because it really gave a short history of events and the names of people and situation that helped create the library we know…

  • CAMPAIGN CORNER

    Edition of Oct. 12    During this general election season, this column will include letters and statements from and about candidates for public office. Get your facts straight To the editor:    Michael Wright, Christine Stockton, and Joan Hall – these are people who do not want to know the truth; who won’t find the time to…

  • OFFICE SPACE OBTAINS FAVOR

    Facility at Showplace Farms receives nodIn what leaders hope could be an emerging trend in commercial development for Millstone Township, an office park on Route 33 has been cleared by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. By: Frank C. D’Amico    MILLSTONE – In it what leaders hope could be an emerging trend in commercial development for…

  • Mustangs rocked by Roselle Park

    By: Shawn Tyrrell        The past two weeks have been anything but easy for the Manville High School football team.    Manville has faced two very formidable football teams and the results were mirror images of each other. Two weeks ago, Johnson Regional of Clark defeated MHS 40-7, while this past week Roselle Park rolled over…

  • CIVIL WAR-ERA MUSIC PART OF FUN

    Allentown Harvest Festival set for weekendThe Libby Prison Minstrels, veterans of the Allentown Fall Harvest Festival, will bring their Civil War-era music and humor to the event again this year. By: Mark Moffa    ALLENTOWN – The Libby Prison Minstrels, veterans of the Allentown Fall Harvest Festival, will bring their Civil War-era music and humor to…

  • Committee to have property appraised

    By:Jeff Mikalaitis        NORTH HANOVER – The Township Committee agreed last week to have a 116-acre property appraised so it can acquire the property for use as a park.    The property, which contains two lakes and a 6,000-square-foot house, is owned by the Gale family and located off Cookstown-New Egypt Road.    The township will seek…

  • Edition of Oct. 12

    Beatrice Galloway Bardel    Beatrice Galloway Bardel, 88, died Oct. 3 at Randolph Hospital, Asheboro, N.C.    Born in Montgomery County, she lived in Pennington 30 years before moving to Asheboro in 1968. She was a former member of Pennington Presbyterian Church and Pennington Women’s Club.    Wife of the late William F. Bardel, she is survived by…