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  • School spending up 9.5 percent in Hopewell Valley budget

    Proposal introduced Monday totals $70.56 million By John Tredrea    School taxes for the owner of the average Hopewell Township property would go up an estimated $963 next year if a proposed $70.56 million school budget is OK’d April 18 by voters, according to Business Administrator John Nemeth.    In Pennington and Hopewell boroughs, the owner of…

  • EDITORIAL: Teens need advice on Web use

    Online services like MySpace are relatively benign. It’s up to parents to educate their children on their use.    MySpace, the online networking site, is attracting a lot of attention these days.    It has been the subject of dozens of breathless reports on national news programs that have focused on the alleged dangers the site poses…

  • Assisted-living plan at Gulick site to go to zoners

    The Township Zoning Board of Adjustment was expected, Wednesday, to review a plan to demolish the 19th-century Gulick House and replace it with a 150-bed assisted living facility. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    After seven months of postponements and delays, a controversial application that calls for demolishing the historic William Gulick House in order to build…

  • Mantz resigns as HHS football coach

    Demanding job took its toll By: Rudy Brandl    Rick Mantz is stepping down as Hillsborough High School’s head football coach.    Mantz spoke with school administrators earlier this week and met with his players Thursday afternoon to make it official. He’s not certain whether he’ll be back in the Hillsborough district next year but handed in…

  • ABIS team completes first wrestling season

    Middle school program builds for future By: Rudy Brandl        Wrestlers will be entering Manville High with more mat experience thanks to the start of a middle school program at Alexander Batcho School.    The ABIS program, under the direction of coach Tim O’Rorke, recently completed its first season with a 1-7 record. That victory, however,…

  • LETTERS

    From the issue of March 16, 2006. Take a knife to state budget To the editor:    It is time to cut and slash New Jersey government.    Every year, I am faced with the dilemma of determining what can I write to have published in the newspaper so that the government officials in New Jersey will…

  • In Manville, the play’s the thing this spring

    High school musical revisits’Little Shop of Horrors.’ By: Donna Lukiw    Dressed in plaid skirts, fish-net stockings and striped socks, Manville High School students in the cast of this year’s musical production, "Little Shop of Horrors," were ready to perform.    Leslie Strauss, an English teacher at MHS and director of the musical, said about 35 students…

  • Mary E. Werner

       Mary Elizabeth Gottiaux Werner, 81, died Wednesday, March 8, at University Medical Center at Princeton after a brief illness.    Born in Monmouth Junction, she was a lifelong township resident. She was a production worker for Bristol Myers-Squibb Co. for 35 years retiring in 1988. She was member of the company’s Retirement Club. She was a…

  • Wrestling is huge in New Jersey

    Fans flock to A.C. for state finals By: Rudy Brandl    ATLANTIC CITY — The popularity of high school wrestling is unbelievable.    Just look at the attendance figures from last weekend’s NJSIAA Championships in Atlantic City. A record 11,772 fans packed Boardwalk Hall for Sunday’s finals. The total weekend attendance for the event was a staggering…