Category: archives
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Vikings score track hat trick
South Brunswick girls win GMC meet to sweep all three county titles this year By: Sean Richards There are just no amount of superlatives or room in a newspaper to adequately describe the greatness of the girls on the South Brunswick High School track and field team. Doing what it does best over the weekend,…
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Josephine A. Zevan
HILLSBOROUGH Josephine A. Zevan died May 9 at the Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough. She was 91. She was born in Duryea, Pa. Mrs. Zevan was a homemaker. She was a member of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Manville. Her husband, George Zevan, died in 1982. Surviving is a daughter, Barbara…
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Commission begins council-mayor talks
A council-mayor form of government places legislative functions exclusively in the hands of a township council, while administrative and executive functions are handled by the mayor. By: John Patten The Charter Study Commission moved into the next part of its work of reviewing forms of government allowed by state law May 9, running through a…
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Hopewell ties Trenton for title
Buck erases bad memories of the 1,600. By: Tim Falls Hopewell Valley Central sophomore Clare Buck wanted a better memory of the 1,600-meter race at the Mercer County Championship on Saturday. Buck can look back fondly now on a first-place finish in the event. Hopewell senior Megan Fitzpatrick, freshman Julie Jablonski and junior Marissa Greco…
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
From the issue of May 17, 2007. Time for prevention, not flood response To the editor: Running for a prior council seat, my number one issue besides our ever-escalating property-tax bills was to highlight the need for a "flood prevention plan" and to work to secure the federal funding necessary to keep Manville dry;…
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POLICE BLOTTER
By: Jorge Castro, 26, of Somerville, was charged with possession of controlled substances and driving while intoxicated at about 1 a.m. May 6 after police stopped the vehicle he was driving on Auten Road because the license plate light was out. During a search of the vehicle, police found a bag of marijuana, and four…
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Vikings excel at GMCT
By: David Gurney South Brunswick High School girls golf coach Joe Dougherty’s goal for the team was to get five golfers in the top 10 at the GMC Tournament held at Bunker Hill Golf Course last Thursday. Well, four out of 8 ain’t bad either. The Vikings placed four girls in the top eight, led…
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Home safety tips provided in wake of recent child death
A two-year-old from Lawrence died last week from injuries sustained when a television fell on top of her By: Lea Kahn A 2-and-a-half-year-old girl was killed May 9 when a television set toppled from a bureau and fell on her at her home on Princeton Pike, said Lawrence police Lt. Thomas Ritter. The death is…
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Man charged in two-car crash at Route 31 and Tree Farm Road
Charlton Ford was issued summonses for failure to keep right, careless driving and failure to wear a seat belt By John Tredrea One of the vehicles involved in a two-car crash in Hopewell Township on Friday morning contained radioactive medical syringes. The syringes’ cases were undamaged and no radiation was released, said police, who added…
