Category: archives
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Bordentown goes to the air for opening football win
By:Sean Moylan One by one the Bordentown Regional High School varsity football team’s running backs went down to either injuries or dehydration. Robert Burns, Chris Miles, Anthony Fasanella and Neil Yersak were all either sidelined or banged up by the completion of Saturday’s home game versus Clayton. Mike White, perhaps the best of all…
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Food bank getting ready for holidays
By: Sara Peters It may be September, but holiday planning is underway at the Department of Recreation/Community Affairs. The department is seeking donations for its Annual Holiday Program providing families in need with both food and gifts for their holiday celebrations. Jane Hollander, assistant welfare director, estimates the program will serve a minimum of 100…
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Area day-care program offer character-building education
Program for children 2-and-a-half to 6 By:Jeff Mikalaitis CHESTERFIELD – The Meadow View Seventh Day Adventist School is offering a new day-care program for children ages 2½ to 6. However, staff member Beth Randall said it is much more than a simple child-care program. "We are interested in offering character-building educational resources for the…
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Historical Society slates 25th celebration
Buffet and program Sept. 23 On Saturday, Sept. 23, members of the Hopewell Valley Historical Society will gather at St. Matthew’s Church, Pennington, to cap their celebration of the society’s founding in 1975 with a buffet dinner and a talk and slide program on Hopewell’s early settlers and their homes. The speakers will be David…
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Edward Schwartz
By:Staff UPPER FREEHOLD – Edward R. Schwartz, 74, of Upper Freehold Twp. died Wednesday in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton Twp. Born in Red Bank, he resided there most of his life, moving to Upper Freehold Twp. 18 years ago. He and his late brother Arnold owned and operated M. Schwartz and Sons Chrysler,…
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Doyle’s farm corn maze returns
Labyrinth is now in its fifth year By:Laura Toto Like to do mazes? Doyle’s Unami Farm has one that’s big enough to get lost in. The farm for five years has been running a corn maze on its property. This year, the maze is a 10-acre "Castle Maze" created with towering corn stalks. Bright and…
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Youth program gets supervisors’ support
By: Les Sdorow The introductory meeting of Bucks Promise for Youth and Communities is set for 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 14, at the New Hope-Solebury Middle School cafeteria on West Bridge Street (Route 179) in New Hope. The meeting is open to all New Hope and Solebury residents. The program is a joint…
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Arty Awards celebrate New Hope’s stars
Raven restaurant captures awards for best in fine dining and best bar By: Cynthia Williamson NEW HOPE – It was an affair to remember when the New Hope Chamber of Commerce presented the fifth annual Arty Awards to a sold-out crowd Tuesday night at the New Hope Eagle Fire Department. Honey Scherlis, a merchant and…
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Girls cross country runs down win
By: Kyle Moylan Running with little – actually make that no – margin of error, the Allentown High School girls’ cross country team was still able to come away with a win in its first meet in the Colonial Valley Conference. Allentown ran against Lawrence and West Windsor South at Veteran’s Park last Friday. Allentown…
