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  • Life-saving volunteers

    Fire company project finds possible donors. By: Charlie Olsen    The Hillsborough Volunteer Fire Company No. 2 collected tissue samples from 101 potential donors Saturday as part of a drive to register bone marrow donors in memory of 18-year-old Tatiana Alissa "Tata" Ingraham, who died of leukemia last year.    The bays of the fire company –…

  • My Turn

    How green was my valley, in Chesterfield By: Hank Reeves    "How Green Was My Valley" won the Academy Award in 1941. It is the story of a Welsh man who grew up in a coal mining village in Wales. As a boy, the valley was green, but over the years as the coal slag poured…

  • Study could help local officials address consolidation issue

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    Copies of a resolution adopted by the Hopewell Township Committee Aug. 14 are being sent to officials of Hopewell and Pennington boroughs. The resolution asks them to agree to join the township in an application for a state grant to fund a consolidation study.    Consolidation is indeed a timely topic, particularly…

  • Charlotte Kiernan

       NEW EGYPT — Charlotte (Golcheski) Kiernan died Aug. 21 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton. She was 64.    Born and raised in Manville, she was a resident of Washington Crossing, Pa., and Fredon Township before moving to New Egypt 32 years ago.    Mrs. Kiernan was a partner along with her husband Frank Kiernan,…

  • Bordentown 105-pounders plan on winning season

    By: Sean Moylan    Last year the Bordentown Bulldogs 105 -pounders won three games and made tremendous strides in improving as a football team. But this year, they can be so much better.    "I really believe that we can be a better than .500 football team if the returning players play the way I think they…

  • Steps in time

    Marching band rehearsing new moves for competitions. By: Donna Lukiw    Even though school hasn’t started yet, the marching band students have been out on the high school field practicing their marches, instruments and positions on the field as part of band camp for students in grades seven through 12.    Thirty-six students have been participating in…

  • Elinor Bacorn

       MANVILLE — Elinor A. (Kuchinski) Bacorn died Aug. 19 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 90.    Born in Pennsylvania, she had lived in Somerville before moving to Manville in 1950.    Mrs. Bacorn retired from the Raritan Valley Minuteman Diner located in Somerville as a waitress.    She was a communicant of Christ the King…

  • Antionette Puppo

       HILLSBOROUGH — Antionette Puppo died Aug. 18 in Summerville Assisted Living in Hillsborough. She was 82.    Born in Possumtown section of Piscataway, she had been a lifelong resident of Middlesex until moving to Hillsborough three years ago.    Her husband, Anthony Puppo, died in 2001; and her brother, Paul Crivello, is deceased.    Mrs. Puppo worked as…

  • Charles Howell III

       HILLSBOROUGH — Charles H. Howell III, 56, died Aug. 12 at his sister’s home in Hillsborough.    He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and lived in Westfield before moving to New York City in 1979.    Mr. Howell was a financial analyst for Sumitomo Bank Leasing and Finance, Inc. in New York City.    His father, Charles,…