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  • School combines exercise and education

    Roosevelt School families gather for the first family fitness night. By: Donna Lukiw    As Christine and Karina Kozlowski took a break from doing sit-ups and push-ups, they said they were having fun and would definitely come back again to exercise at Roosevelt Elementary School’s family fitness night.    About 65 students and parents were ready to…

  • Fire budgets approved across the board

    Voters in all three township fire districts approved budgets and elected commissioners last Saturday. By: Joseph Harvie    Budgets in all three township fire districts were approved during elections held Saturday.    All incumbents seeking re-election to the board of fire commissioners in their districts also won.    Only the budget for Fire District 1, which covers Kendall…

  • Township set to battle smaller drug zones

    Resolution opposes bill reducing drug-free school zones to 200 feet. By: Melissa Edmond    The Township Committee is officially opposing a plan by state law enforcement officials to reduce the size of drug-free school zones, after a study found the laws to be ineffective and causing overcrowded prisons.    The committee unanimously adopted a resolution Feb. 14…

  • There could be two Y centers in Hopewell Valley’s future

    One would be on Central High School-Timberlane Middle School campus, the other on land in or near Hopewell Borough By John Tredrea    The Hopewell Valley YMCA, which has been trying for years to build a community center in the Valley, may be able to build two.    As currently envisioned, each would have a swimming pool,…

  • Ruth Hosea, former district teacher, was driven to help those she loved

    Ms. Hosea, a courageous spirit, passed away Feb. 11. By: Marisa Maldonado    Ruth Hosea taught for 23 years in the South Brunswick School District — but she also was a lifelong learner.    When the Six Mile Run Reformed Church needed a Web site, she immediately started to build one, even thought she knew nothing about…

  • Some parents oppose proposed school busing changes

    Stony Brook and Toll Gate Grammar routes involved By John Tredrea    About a half-dozen parents turned out for Tuesday night’s school board meeting to protest school busing changes planned for the next school year.    The changes include having children who live on many cul-de-sacs walk to the nearest corner rather than having the school bus…

  • EDITORIAL

    Cut burden by dropping open space tax.    If local taxpayers want to lower their property tax bills, here’s one suggestion we’ll offer: end the open space tax.    While Hillsborough’s current $0.041 tax rate — adding $143 to the property tax bill on a property assessed at the township average — is not an egregious amount,…

  • Residents protest open-space decision

    Residents urged the council to overturn a Feb. 7 decision to preserve as open sapce a vacant Johnson Avenue parcel. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    Dismayed and disheartened by Township Council’s decision to permanently preserve a 3.5-acre parcel of land on Johnson Avenue, nearly two dozen township residents urged the council to reconsider its decision Tuesday.…

  • Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

    Life and comedy intersect and seem to erase one another in this movie-within-a-movie, based on Laurence Sterne’s eccentric novel. By:Bob Brown    Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), a military brat who became a clergyman, was known less for his sermons than for the most eccentric English novel of the 18th century. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,…