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  • Full bins at Pantry

    Pantry workers thankful for great community response By: Joseph Harvie    The township-run Food Pantry is doing well after giving food and presents to 160 needy families through the annual Holiday Program, LouAnne Wolf, director of the township Division of Social Services, said Tuesday.    Ms. Wolf said she wanted to thank everyone who dropped off food…

  • Russian Elegy

    Alan Kogosowski will perform in the concert series ‘Rachmaninoff the Romantic’ as part of the NJSO’s Winter Festival. By: Susan Van Dongen    The music of Sergei Rachmaninoff has played an emotionally charged role in several films. The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor drove David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) into madness in the movie Shine.…

  • Bordentown wrestlers win Clayton Classic

    By: Sean Moylan    As good as the Bordentown Regional High varsity wrestling team has been over the past couple of seasons, the one big attainable prize which has always eluded the Scotties in the past was winning the team championship of the Clayton Clipper Classic Tournament.    Well, that all changed this past Thursday when the…

  • School growth tops agenda

    By: Stephanie Prokop    CHESTERFIELD — One of the first orders of business for 2007 will be to help the school board find a suitable site for a new elementary school and win voters’ approval, said township officials this week.    The Board of Education and the Township Committee have been together since the summer to try…

  • One last look back

    2006 in review By: Scott Morgan    By and large, school districts operate by the same standards as any town. They struggle with money and taxes, occasionally get bogged in politics and fight an evolving battle to stay ahead of a world that has no intention of slowing down.    But schools are a unique animal. In…

  • Looming issues in 2007 include tax relief, municipal upgrades

    By: Stephanie Prokop    SPRINGFIELD — The Township Council is looking forward to the future and "trying to be very optimistic" about the tasks it hopes to accomplish in 2007, according to Councilman Peter Sobotka.    One major issue that will face the township is property taxes.    "Since the state cannot come up with any tax relief…

  • Tire slashers strike S. 11th Ave. area

    Police say parking in well-lit areas may be best protection. By: Donna Lukiw    A string of tire slashings in the borough in recent weeks has police warning residents to pay attention to where they park vehicles at night.    "We’re conducting a follow-up investigation," Detective Sgt. Ronald Gazaway said of the six incidents reported last week.…

  • Verney optimistic after county loss

    Raiders play well in another tough loss By: John Beisser        On Friday, Dec. 22, the Hillsborough High ice hockey team played some of its most inspired and determined hockey of the season in the first round of the Somerset County Tournament but it was not enough as the sixth-seeded Raiders were edged by third-seeded…

  • Goodell and Pogorzelski will serve Hopewell Township again

    Committee makes 2007 assignments By John Tredrea    Steve Goodell will be Hopewell Township’s attorney again this year. At Tuesday night’s annual reorganization meeting, the Township Committee voted 5-0 to rehire Mr. Goodell, who has held the post of municipal attorney since January 2004 and previously served as attorney for the Zoning Board of Adjustment.    Also…