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  • Committee fails mid-term evaluation

    To the editor:    Remember those dreaded mid-year exams? The results generally serve as a shocking wake-up call to students.    Let’s grade the Township Committee against the political rhetoric of Mayor Tricarico’s "Spring 2000 Message."    Open space: This is moving slower than a glacier.    The committee claims to have key acreage in mind to justify the…

  • Princeton Temperature Record – July 9-31, 2000

    By: Tom Lederer The Princeton Temperature Record is based on readings from a Nimbus Ultra digital thermometer with an accuracy of 0.2 degrees F. Readings, taken in Princeton Township near the Princeton Shopping Center, are rounded to the nearest degree. DATE HIGH LOW July 31, 2000 89 70 July 30, 2000 87 69 July 29,…

  • Council wants Manville stop on West Trenton rail line

    Line projected to have station stop in Hillsborough By: Eric Schwarz    The Borough Council now wants to reinstitute a passenger rail station along a line closed since 1982.    The council and mayor voted 4-3 Monday to have NJ Transit consider the former Weston Rail Station for a potential station stop on the proposed reactivation of…

  • EDITORIAL: The death sentence

    Executions are neither rational nor civilized By:The Packet Group    In the 18 years since New Jersey reinstated the death penalty, the fact that nobody has been executed by the state has been the source of great comfort to the opponents of the death penalty (not to mention those upon whom such sentences have been imposed)…

  • They will build ugly ego houses

    LETTER TO EDITOR By: William Schmidt    Our Hopewell Township neighbors and political leaders are proposing to upzone to four and six acre lots in the name of open space and keeping the township "rural."    I doubt that the owners of those lots will be growing food for the starving in sub-Sahara Africa or for the…

  • Post 26 still hoping to gain Legion playoff berth

    By:Sean Moylan        Coming into this year’s American Legion season, Bordentown Post 26’s Chris Larcome was still recuperating from a broken hand and Bordentown manager Tom Dolan had no idea what Larcome could give him. What Larcome has given Post 26 is one fantastic performance after another. And none were greater than his 5-0, three-hit,…

  • WEEKEND PICKS

    Blood drive; Foreign film festival; Music in the park Summer blood drive    New Jersey Blood Services will conduct a blood drive today, Friday, noon-5:30 p.m. in the Immaculate Conception School Cafeteria, Manalapan Road, Spotswood,    Blood is always needed to be available in case of emergencies. Traditionally, the advent of summer brings about more accidents and…

  • Firehouse no longer prime site for tower

    County freeholders identified alternate site along Route 130 By:Jeff Mikalaitis        BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – The Burlington County Board of Freeholders no longer is considering the Mission Fire Company, on Groveville Road, as a primary site for a proposed public safety radio communications tower.    In a letter to John D. Kinsley Jr., chairman of the Board…

  • SBAA 10’s win a pair of titles

    South Brunswick tops Edison, 9-7, for Piscataway Tournament crown By: Ken Weingartner    Winning any tournament is an accomplishment. Triumphing in a pair of tourneys with extremely large fields is even better.    And that’s how the South Brunswick Athletic Association 10-year-old all-stars have started the summer. The squad has won two 18-team events, the East Amwell…