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  • Rental unit proposals not favored by some

    Ordinances regulating rental units in one- and two-family houses met with mixed reviews from both tenants and landlords. By: Lea Kahn    A packet of ordinances that would regulate rental units in one- and two-family houses introduced by Township Council Tuesday night met with mixed reviews from both tenants and landlords.    The council introduced the ordinances…

  • Audrey Miller

       HILLSBOROUGH — Audrey (Burd) Miller died April 22. She was 88.    Mrs. Miller worked as a LPN at Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough for many years before retiring.    Her husband, Clifford M. Miller; her eldest son, Richard C. Miller; and siblings, Cecil and William Burd and Shirley Johnson are deceased.    Surviving are two sons,…

  • James Schwar

       MANVILLE — James Lewis "Mr. Duck" Schwar died April 25 at home. He was 80.    Born in Somerville, he was raised in Plainfield and had lived in Metuchen before moving to Manville 47 years ago.    Mr. Schwar retired as a supervisor with Mack Trucks in Bridgewater after 41 years of employment.    He served in the…

  • Firefighters’ union files complaint against township

    By: Cara Latham    WASHINGTON — The Fire Department’s local union has filed a complaint against the township for what it claims was the improper termination of two employees and the transfer of another to a lower paying job.    The International Association of Fire Fighters Local 3786 filed the unfair labor practice charge with the state…

  • Senior Menus-May 3, 2007

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $4.60. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, May 3 — Cream of spinach soup,…

  • Time Changes the Truth

    Director Kemati Porter brings Yusef Komunyakaa’s play about healing old wounds to Passage Theatre. By: Anthony Stoeckert    On the surface, Yusef Komunyakaa’s The Deacons seems simple. Two black men in their 60s who served in the civil rights group the Deacons for Defense reunite after more than 30 years. Once as close as brothers, the…

  • ‘Manufacturing Dissent’

    The filmmakers’ attempts to cover the jeans-clad Michael Moore seem more like a trip to see the Wizard of Oz. By: Bob Brown    If there’s one thing gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore did for documentaries, it was make them popular. He did it with irreverence and humor in his breakthrough film Roger & Me (1989), about…

  • Citizens’ concerns focus of New Hope candidates

    One Republican and four Democrats are vying for the three available seats on the Borough Council. By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — In the May 15 primary, one Republican and four Democrats are running for three seats on the Borough Council.    The lone Republican, Robert Gerenser, served on the council from 1998 to 2001.    Three…

  • ‘Soul to Soul’ to target Afro American issues

    To improve the caliber of African-American health care, the medical profession has to begin to change the way it thinks about delivering health care to minority populations By: Henry Davison Jr., M.D.    We live at a time of exciting developments in the treatment of disease, a time of new breakthroughs in research and significant improvements…