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  • The least of these

    Locals spend two weeks in Thailand assisting missionaries By:Laura Toto    Over the summer while some people vacationed in places like Florida and London, the Rev. Boyd Hannold of Belle Mead and Bill Evans of Manville went to Thailand.    The two men were part of a 24-member missionary team from Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro that…

  • Field hockey makes transition

    By: Neil Hay    They played 76 minutes of soccer. And each team had one goal to its credit.    But at the 77th minute, with regulation time slipping away, Mike McCanns tallied an unassisted goal to lift the visiting Allentown High School boys’ soccer team past host Hamilton, 2-1.    It was the Redbirds’ first "W" of…

  • Woman’s personal loss spurs volunteer work

    American Cancer Society golf benefit set for Monday By: Kristy Klaus    On a Monday back in 1995 Lynn Witheford started to feel sick.    By Friday of that same week the 35-year-old Ms. Witheford, a mother of three, had lost her life to breast cancer, and Jane Kelly had lost a daughter.    "It was her time,"…

  • Mold cleaned from schools

    School officials: Summer weather created problem By: Lea Kahn    A warm, damp summer plus a closed-up building equals mold, Lawrence Township school district officials learned earlier this month.    Six classrooms in two school buildings were found to have mold growing on the desks and books, school district Business Administrator Nicholas Puleio said.    But the classrooms…

  • McCanns lifts AHS

    By: Neil Hay    They played 76 minutes of soccer. And each team had one goal to its credit.    But at the 77th minute, with regulation time slipping away, Mike McCanns tallied an unassisted goal to lift the visiting Allentown High School boys’ soccer team past host Hamilton, 2-1.    It was the Redbirds’ first "W" of…

  • More changes ahead for Red Raiders

       A "sea change" is a term common in Sydney, Australia, where the U.S. womens soccer team is defending its Olympic title. It refers to a dramatic change in the weather, caused by overpowering storm systems swept in off the Antarctic Ocean. It’s something that they probably pray won’t happen.    The term is less well-known in…

  • Seniors greet freshmen at dance

    By:Sarah Goodban    Hopewell Valley Central High’s Welcome Back Dance is one that seniors look forward to, for tradition allows them to "break-in" the freshman by dancing with as many of them as possible and to dress up in absurd clothing.    Some of the most popular fashions for the senior girls this year included animal print…

  • ShopRite receives planners’ final OK

    Construction may begin before the end of the year By: Lea Kahn    The developers of the proposed ShopRite grocery store at the Brunswick Circle have been given the green light by township planners to forge ahead with their plans.    The Planning Board granted final site plan approval for Brunswick Circle Associates’ plan to build the…

  • Enrico Malinconico, 61

       MANVILLE — Enrico Malinconico died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000, at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center, New Brunswick. He was 61.    Born in Libya, he lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Manville 25 years ago.    Mr. Malinconico was a self-employed pizza maker who owned Tony’s Restaurant in Spotswood for 10 years, retiring in 1999.…