Category: archives
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Hopewell Township’s deputy mayor
Sandahl elected Tuesday David Sandahl (center) takes the oath of office as Hopewell Township deputy mayor during Tuesday’s reorganization meeting. Administering the oath of office is township resident Mike Kahme. Holding the Bible for her husband is Diane Sandahl.
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Schools strategize superintendent search
Mansfield and Bordentown search for district leaders By: William Wichert The search is on for new superintendents in two local school districts. Facing two very different deadlines, Board of Education members in the Mansfield Township School District and the Bordentown Regional School District have scheduled recent public meetings to determine their strategy for finding new…
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Vikes win third straight
By: Ken Weingartner Noah Antonoff likes the direction his South Brunswick High ice hockey team is moving. But there still remains a long journey ahead. The Vikings continued to dig themselves out of the 0-4 hole they created earlier this season by picking up their third straight win over the winter break, beating Johnson 5-4.…
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BRHS, Florence boys win basketball tourneys
By: Sean Moylan Bordentown head boys’ varsity basketball coach Mark Drew refuses to get too excited just yet because he knows it’s a long season and his Scotties’ toughest games are still ahead of them. Even so, the Scotties gave their fans a taste of just how good they could be when they defeated Haddon…
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DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Hey, I got some slogans for you right here
DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: New state slogans leave way too much to be desired. By: Hank Kalet I’m not exactly sure why, but acting Gov. Richard Codey seems to think it’s necessary to come up with a new state slogan. I’m not really sure what was wrong with the old one. You remember the old…
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FILM CAPSULES
Short descriptions Balls of Fury Pingpong is played to the extreme in this comedy about Randy Daytona (Don Fogler), a former table tennis phenom, who is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate an underground pingpong tournament led by the murderous Feng (Christopher Walken), who killed Daytona’s father.Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for…
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Open space board disbands
Township advisory committee completes its mission By: William Wichert BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP The township’s Open Space Advisory Committee has done its job, so officials are calling it a day. The more than four-year-old municipal body was disbanded by the Township Committee last week, because officials said the group has achieved its original goal of identifying…
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Obituaries for the week of Dec. 5
Edward D. Scharite, Caterina Pata Varone, Stephen Joseph Stefancin Jr. Edward D. Scharite ALLENTOWN Edward D. Scharite, 54, died Dec. 25 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Yardville, he lived in the Allentown area his entire life. Mr. Scharite was employed as a sheet metal worker for Local 27 in…
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George Padgett was always there as mayor
GUEST COLUMN By David Knights It is impossible to walk on nearly any street in Hopewell Borough and not see the impact that George Padgett made on this community in the time he lived here and served as mayor. Since learning of George’s death in Florida last week, the visible reminders have caused me to…
