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  • HoVal knows it needed to be better

    Princeton golfers shoot par in Bulldogs’ loss. By: Tim Falls    Shaky and inconsistent play won’t win a match against the Princeton High School golf team.    Hopewell Valley Central High School senior Ben Bershad wanted to be at his best, but instead, said he played inconsistent as the Bulldogs’ golf team hosted Princeton at Hopewell Valley…

  • Target eyes fall opening

    The store will be the first phase of a four-building shopping center on a 79.76-acre site just north of Route 522. By: Joseph Harvie    The township could have a Target department store by late fall if construction on a Route 1 shopping center goes as planned.    The 128,059-square-foot Target is the first phase of a…

  • Fiddling with the birds at the pole farm

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By John Tredrea    Our cat hates the fiddle. The minute he sees me pick it up, he hops down from the sofa and heads for the door and won’t stop meowing, very loudly, until I let him out. "I was up all night and need to sleep, which I guess I’ll have to…

  • High turnout rejects school budget

    Proposed $15.3 million spending plan goes down by a vote of 477 to 411. By: Donna Lukiw    Manville voters turned down the school budget Tuesday, defeating the proposed $15.3 million by a vote of 477-411.    The balloting included one of the biggest voter turnouts for a school election in recent memory, with 912 — just…

  • Local teams set for B.C. tennis play

    By: Sean Moylan    Anyone who has followed the Florence Township Memorial High School tennis team the past two years can tell you all about the superior talent and ability of players like Jon Hand, Joe Molimock, Stuart Lopez, Andrew Munger and Eric Centofanti.    But in last Wednesday’s 5-0 win at Willingboro, Florence Coach Ovi Dragos…

  • Fire and Brimstone

    Boheme Opera’s ‘Susannah’ takes a modern-day look at beauty, innocence and fundamentalism. By: Susan Van Dongen    Only in opera could a simple bath stir up such feelings of hatred, leading to rape, murder and disgrace.    That’s how the fictional Susannah Polk, the central figure and namesake of Carlisle Floyd’s opera, gets in trouble. A naive…

  • Bunny surprise

    Terhune Orchards held its annual Bunny Chase on Saturday and Sunday. Jordan Lilly, 5, of Lawrence seemed surprised to find a real rabbit at Terhune Orchards’ annual Bunny Chase on Saturday.

  • League to ‘demystify’ county government

    Session slated for May 4    So what does a freeholder do? Who are the freeholders and where do they meet? And how do their votes directly affect local property taxes?    "Demystifying County Government" — providing the answers to these and other questions residents might have — is the topic of an informal meeting being sponsored…

  • Boundaries of Harmony

    The Westminster Bell Choir will perform light classical music, folk songs and original compositions. By: Susan Van Dongen    Handbell choirs have come a long way since the 17th century, when the instruments were used by church musicians to practice change ringing of the chimes in the bell tower. Since change ringing involved at least one…