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  • ‘The Covenant’

    Eerie music and mysterious foggy emanations, plus a few spiders, are about as scary as it gets – creepy is as creepy does. By: Bob Brown    The opening credits of this spook-genre film promise an action-packed, thrilling movie, harking back to the Salem witch trials of 17th-centry New England. A very clever montage of antique…

  • Rockwell/Kooltronic groundwater issues are Sept. 21 topic

    Meeting set for 7 p.m. at Hopewell Elementary School By Aleen Crispino    Environmental engineering consulting firm Blasland, Bouck and Lee (BBLES) of Cranbury will host a public information meeting at 7 p.m. on Sept. 21 at Hopewell Elementary School.    The meeting will focus on the firm’s efforts to contain and reduce groundwater contamination at the…

  • LETTERS

    From the issue of Sept. 14, 2006. Thanks for supporting bone marrow screening To the editor:    On Aug. 19th, over 100 individuals stepped forward to become registrants in the National Marrow Donor Program.    Their willingness to volunteer was in partly due to the genesis of the Hillsborough Fire Co. #2 Marrow Registration Drive: Tatiana "Tata"…

  • Letters to the editor

    School board member proud of planning role To the editor:     Ron Dunster’s letter in your paper last week was divisive, politically-motivated and mean-spirited.    Mr. Dunster, during my five years on the board, I am proud of the major strides that were made to address the district’s inadequate educational facilities caused by uncontrolled growth in…

  • LETTER

    From the issue of Sept. 14, 2006. Candidate wrong about flood planning To the editor:    "It’s not a matter of if it will happen again, it’s a matter of when."    Sound familiar Mr. Onderko? I’ve only been quoted that several times in newspapers, most recently when I brought up at a council meeting that the…

  • Fighters will fill New Jersey skies

    Model plane pilots to gather for radio-controlled air show By: Purvi Desai    There will be mini air battles representing the aircraft of World War I and World War II.    Model warplanes — a quarter the size of regular ones, weighing between 20 and 50 pounds, with wingspans of 7 to 12 feet — will be…

  • Kish leaves race

    Republican candidate moving out of state By: Joseph Harvie    Richard Kish, the Republican candidate for mayor, dropped out of the race Sept. 7 because he is moving to Texas.    Mr. Kish said last week that he is moving because of an opportunity at Union Carbide, a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Co., where he has…

  • Dorothy Nodes

       MANVILLE — Dorothy A. (Bakitas) Nodes died Sept. 6 at the Haven Hospice Unit located in John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison. She was 74.    Born in Hazleton, Pa., she resided in Piscataway and Middlesex before settling in Manville 14 years ago.    Mrs. Nodes was a homemaker.    She was a communicant of St. Mary’s…

  • Crossing guards are township topic

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP UPDATE By John Tredrea    On Monday, the Hopewell Township Committee appointed Judith Lenarski a school crossing guard, at $18 per hour, effective Sept. 6.    The committee also accepted the resignation of Joseph Lenarski as school crossing guard, effective Aug. 16.    With the elimination of nonhazardous courtesy busing by the school district this year,…