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  • New Lawrence-Hopewell Trail link to open at ETS

    Explore the new LHT link with bike rides and a guided nature walk at ETS on Saturday.    A ceremony and fun events will mark the opening of the new 1.2-mile portion of the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail Saturday at Educational Testing Service, off Rosedale Road.    The Lawrence-Hopewell Trail is a proposed 20-mile-long loop that would connect Lawrence…

  • Valley CHS principal appointment expected Monday

    School officials are still interviewing three finalists of the 60 applicants to replace Joseph Mangiaracina, district spokeswoman JoAnn Meyer said By John Tredrea    A new principal for Hopewell Valley Central High School is expected to be recommended to the school board by Superintendent Judith Ferguson on Monday night.    As of Wednesday, the superintendent had not…

  • Budget vote renews transload debate

    Township Committee agrees to use money from depot developer to pay a school drug abuse counselor and buy a street sweeper. By: Charlie Olsen    An amendment to the municipal budget to spend some of the money paid by the developer of the Veterans Affairs depot spurred renewed debate on the lack of site plans for…

  • Staff legislation targets grave theft, funeral protests

    Bill heads to state Senate By: Cara Latham    After making it past the state Assembly June 8, two bills pertaining to military gravesites and funerals that were sponsored by local assemblymen will head to the state Senate, where the assemblymen said they expect it to be approved.    Assemblyman Jack Conners, D-7 th, whose district includes…

  • Hopewell Township officials adopt $18M budget

    The spending plan, up 7.75 percent from last year, will bring a municipal tax rate of 24 cents per $100 of assessed property value By John Tredrea    An $18,066,000 Hopewell Township budget for 2006 was adopted by unanimous vote of the full Township Committee Monday night.    The spending plan, up 7.75 percent from last year,…

  • School district offers summer sessions

    For some students, summer school is a chance to explore new interests or to prepare for the next school year, according to Assistant Superintendent Crystal Lovell. For other students, it’s a way to make up for classes in which they did not do well, she said. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    While most Lawrence public school…

  • Editorial

    People power can produce great results    Call it the power of the people.    Residents of the Davidsons Mill and Deans Rhode Hall roads area — who have banded together under the banner of the Eastern Villages Association — have forced the township to take notice. The residents first fought off a warehouse complex proposed for…

  • Anne Marie Anderson

       Anne Marie Sutton Anderson, 44, of Kendall Park, died Saturday, June 10, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New Brunswick, she lived there before moving to Kendall Park 15 years ago. She was a dental assistant in the New Brunswick area for 20 years. She was a communicant of St. Peter’s R.C.…

  • Class project pyramid takes over MHS hallway

    Students constructed a 5-foot-high pyramid as an example of a structure known as a Sierpinski triangle. By: Donna Lukiw    It took 1,024 envelopes for students in Manville High School’s geometry honors class to finish their project, but they didn’t need any stamps.    The students constructed a 5-foot pyramid, assembled from groupings of smaller pyramids (tetrahedrons…