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  • Hopewell Township seeks joint action on consolidation study

    Copies of resolution asking cooperation from Hopewell and Pennington boroughs are being sent to officials By John Tredrea    The Hopewell Township Committee has asked the mayors and councils of Pennington and Hopewell boroughs to join the township in applying for a state grant to fund an in-depth study of the possible consolidation of the Valley’s…

  • Day camp’s counselors-in-training reach out to local seniors

    CITs show concern for community By: Candice Leigh Helfand    It is not every day that one gets to see the kindness of the human spirit.    On Aug. 9, however, anyone at Mill Road Day Camp could see that the counselors-in-training were working hard to help their community.    The counselors-in-training — CITs for short — held…

  • Friends, family, remember bishop

    Bishop Rupert Johnson, father of former Township Mayor, passed away By: Joseph Harvie    Bishop Rupert Johnson, 88, a caring clergyman, loving father, and friend to the Kendall Park community, died Aug. 3, in the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Bishop Johnson, father of former South Brunswick Mayor Debra Johnson, was the pastor of Rehoboth Pentecostal…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    A 56-year-old Montgomery woman had her purse containing $100 in cash stolen at 4 p.m. Aug. 7 in the Home Goods store in the Hillsborough Promenade.    The woman said she left the purse in the top basket of her cart for 5five minutes while she looked through the linen and bedding aisle. When she…

  • Gorbatuk now an MHS coach for all seasons

    2000 Manville High grad adds football, wrestling to load By: Rudy Brandl    Pat Gorbatuk certainly feels comfortable working with young students and athletes in Manville. It wasn’t that long ago when the 2000 Manville High School graduate was doing the same things he’s helping others accomplish today.    Gorbatuk, who began working as a seventh-grade social…

  • That’s Amore

    Three Men and a Baby Grand take the Rat Pack legend and make it their own. By: Susan Van Dongen    WhenLee Lessack, Brian Lane Green and Johnny Rodgers come out to do their Salute to The Rat Pack, the audience might wonder at first, "Which one is Sammy Davis Jr.?"    "Of course, none of us…

  • Man fires shotgun on Blackhorse Lane

    Local resident scares loitering teens with gunfire By: Joseph Harvie    A 42-year-old South Brunswick man, who police say fired a 12-gauge shotgun into the woods to scare off teenagers standing in front of his Blackhorse Lane home Friday night, has been charged in connection with the incident.    Hans Olsen was charged with possession of a…

  • Report: local crimes still below county average

    By: Molly Petrilla    Though crime in Burlington County decreased overall in 2005, some towns in the northern part of the county experienced increases, and others decreases, in their crime rates, according to the state police Uniform Crime Report (UCR) released last week.    While Bordentown Township, Florence, Mansfield, New Hanover and Springfield all had decreases in…

  • Beginning with basics

    Hopewell Pop Warner Junior Midgets By: Tim Falls    The Hopewell Valley Pop Warner Junior Midget team had a lot to learn.    The first thing head coach Don Olearchik said he had to teach his team to do was get dressed. The Jr. Midgets had to be shown how to get into their pads and from…