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  • Fix Fackler bridge

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    How can it take so long for a decision to be made about the Fackler Road Bridge? It is well over a year now that the bridge has been closed (and traffic re-routed to Proviceline Road). One wonders whether a pocket veto isn’t being exercised by someone simply…

  • POLICE BEAT 9/28

    From the Sept. 28 edition of the Register-News By: FLORENCE    On Sept. 17, Stephen L. Murray Jr., 18, of Edgewater Park reported to police he was the victim of an armed robbery.    In his initial report, he told police he worked for Domino’s and, after making a delivery to a building in Maplewood Homes, on…

  • Vandervort gets first win at Freehold

    By: Ken Weingartner    Leah Vandervort earned her first career harness racing win Sept. 21 when she guided White Horizon to victory in the day’s second race at Freehold Raceway.    The 20-year-old resident of North Hanover started driving late last year.    "It was exciting," Ms. Vandervort said. "It was nice just to get it out of…

  • Candidates call for expanded bus service

    NJ Transit does not now serve most of Manville By:Eric Schwarz    The 11 buses a day serving a limited area of Manville should be expanded, the Republican candidates for council said this week.    The NJ Transit bus service from Hillsborough to Bedminster has been running for four years.    Candidates A.J. Rathbun and Martin Wierzba proposed…

  • Mary I. O’Hare, 82

    By:    MANCHESTER – Mary I. O’Hare, 82, died Aug. 29 at Holiday Care Center, Toms River.    Born in Bayonne, she lived in New Milford before moving to Whiting in 1979.    She was a homemaker.    Mrs. O’Hare was a member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church, Whiting, former member of Ascension Church, New Milford,…

  • Students debate reward program

    Heated discussion during opening session of Junior Statesman Club at high school By: Amanda Bok    The Renaissance Program, which rewards high school students for good grades, is not a fair marker for student intelligence, some students contend. Others believe the incentives are a good motivational tool.    The opening session of the high school Junior Statesman…

  • Parking now curbed on Dublin Road

    Law now in effect By:John Tredrea    Parking is now prohibited on both sides of the full length of 1.4-mile Dublin Road from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday.    The parking restriction was enacted via an ordinance unanimously adopted by the Hopewell Township Committee Sept. 21.    It was at the request of a Dublin Road…

  • Enlightened ruling in Gulick case

    EDITORIAL    Vindication for the township’s Zoning Board of Adjustment came last week in the form of a court decision.    U.S. District Court Judge Garrett E. Brown upheld the zoning board’s decision to allow an assisted-living facility to be built only if eight units were trimmed from the proposal.    In a day and age in which…

  • Landfill tours set to end questions

    Tours will begin in October By:Vanessa S. Holt        FLORENCE – Tours of the Tullytown, Pa., landfill have been scheduled in October in response to continuing questions from township residents who do not feel the landfill followed through on its agreement to control odors and install landscaping.    Local residents and township officials met Sept. 6…