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  • ‘Taste’ event marks a decade with tribute

    Sunday’s fundraiser was dedicated to the event’s founder, the late JaNoel Bess, a former president of the Hillsborough Education Foundation. By: John Patten    Sunday’s Taste of Hillsborough was dedicated to former Hillsborough resident JaNoel Bess, who served as president of the Hillsborough Education Foundation from 1999-2001 and hatched the idea 10 years ago as a…

  • Mildred Biondo

       MAGNOLIA — Mildred "Mitty" Biondo died April 7 at VITAS Hospice Inpatient Unit in Stratford. She was 72.    She was raised in Magnolia and was a returning resident for the last eight years, to care for her mother. She had lived previously in Manville for 18 years.    Mrs. Biondo was a board secretary for the…

  • Ballot questions face a tough future

    By: Cara Latham    While it’s up to local municipal officials to determine the fate of most of the area’s defeated school budgets and ballot questions, those same school districts might not be so lucky next year.    This year, as in the past, there is one last hope for a district’s defeated spending measures. The defeated…

  • Marie L. Murphy

       Marie L. Murphy, 74, of Kendall Park, died Thursday, April 26, at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Franklin Township before moving to Kendall Park in 1960.    She and her husband owned Murphy’s Sportsman Den, Kendall Park.    She was a member of the German Shepherd Kennel Club and…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    From the issue of May 3, 2007. Letter writer doesn’t ‘get it’ To the editor:     Mr. Durrant stated in his letter that the "killing of a terrorist leader diffuses seeds of hate into the Muslim population, and within days a new leader has emerged."    He goes on further to say that these seeds of…

  • Midnight blaze consumes barn

    Hopewell Township police believe lightning was the cause By John Tredrea    Shortly after midnight Wednesday, Shawn Greenbaum was awakened by a loud crack.    It happened during a storm marked by many enormous bolts of lightning.    Moments later, police said, Mr. Greenbaum saw a glow outside his house at 174 Pennington-Hopewell Road. It was his garage-sized…

  • Editor’s Journal (05.03.07)

    Spring: In my mind, on the bike, now available By: John Dunphy For years, I’ve had this vision of the perfect spring day.    This vision is loosely based on Deep Cut Gardens, in Middletown Township, where I grew up. When I first discovered the park in 1996, I thought I was discovering a piece of…

  • Manville High teams set for busy May

    County, state action looms on the horizon By: Rudy Brandl    Manville High’s spring athletic teams will hit the home stretch of their seasons in the month of May. Like most other scholastic teams, the Mustangs will be extremely busy during the next few weeks.    Although the MHS baseball and softball teams have been eliminated from…