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Schools superintendent slates coffees, lunches
Meetings are set for Feb. 27 at 7 p.m., coffee; March 7 at 10 a.m., coffee; March 22 at 7 p.m., coffee; April 11 at 10 a.m., coffee Hopewell Valley schools Superintendent Judy Ferguson invites members of the community to meet with her in a series of informal coffees and brown-bag lunches over the next…
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Letters to the editor
Elected commissioners thank township voters To the editor: We would like to thank all of those who gave us their support during Bordentown Township’s District 2 Fire Election. It humbled us to see so many of our family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers support us in our endeavor to help build a better fire service. We…
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Voters OK fire budget
Matt DeCicco and Ken Wetzel elected to serve as fire commissioners. By: Purvi Desai Voters approved the $1,494,547 Fire District budget Saturday and tapped Matt DeCicco and Ken Wetzel as new fire commissioners. Of the 449 voters casting ballots, including absentees a 2.2 percent turnout 323 said "yes" to the budget. Mr. DeCicco…
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Slow start dooms HHS boys in SCT semifinals
Late run not enough to offset deep hole By: Rudy Brandl MONTGOMERY The Hillsborough High boys fought an uphill battle in Saturday afternoon’s Somerset County Basketball Tournament semifinals. The Raiders never caught up to their division rivals from Immaculata and suffered a 54-41 elimination loss. Second-ranked Immaculata (17-5) bolted to a 12-4 lead…
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Mary Gall
BETHLEHEM, Pa. Mary D. (Botsko) Gall died Feb. 14 at Country Meadows Nursing Home in Bethlehem. She was 87. Born in Manville, she lived in Manville until moving to Bethlehem two years ago. Mrs. Gall was employed by Foodtown of Manville in customer service, Cormedic’s Corp. and Diehl’s in quality control and was employed…
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Viotto good as gold in Group IV meet
Senior throws a season-best to win shot put competition By: Rich Fisher John Viotto didn’t get his 55 feet, but he did get a gold medal. Viotto won the NJSIAA Group IV shot put this past Sunday in Toms River with a career-best indoor throw of 53-feet, 4¾ inches, beating out Washington Township’s Kwabena Keene…
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On Point
Shot to a mother’s heart By: Linda McCarthy Over the years, my oldest has done many things to age me. From the first day of conception I knew he was going to be a challenge. I was sick everyday, and I think I’m in a medical journal somewhere as the only human to have the…
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Combined project nets environmental award
Auten Road Intermediate School expanded its science program with outdoor environmental lessons at Duke Farms. By: Donna Lukiw Over 600 Auten Road Intermediate School fifth-graders have studied trees, plants and wildlife in their science classes, but for the past two years they’ve been also earning this outside their classrooms. After expanding the school’s science program…
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Prisoners of War
Somerset Valley Players visits ‘Stalag 17.’ By: Stuart Duncan It is sad that for many theater-goers, any mention of Stalag 17 brings memories of the TV sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. True, both rest their plots on incidents in World War II prison camps. And both prominently feature an enemy soldier named Schultz. But the similarities end…
