Day: March 8, 2001

  • Family Day, Spring Fling, March 11

       The Hopewell Borough Recreation Committee will present the first Family Day/Spring Fling on March 11 at 3 p.m. at the Hopewell Railroad Station.    Events will include an outdoor martial arts demonstration, juggler, balloon animals, face painting, music, refreshments and more!    The committee also will be honoring a number of community members who have provided volunteer…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 8

    For football at CHS To the editor:     I want to explain why I think it is important to start a high school football program in Hopewell Valley. In addition to the fact that it is fun, increases community spirit, provides additional activities for teens and may provide more scholarship opportunities, it’s also about equity…

  • District has big plans for reading program

    Lawrence schools to use $60,000 grant to expand Reading Recovery program    Aiming to ensure that elementary school students can read before they leave the third grade, township school officials plan to expand the district’s Reading Recovery program during the next school year. By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Township Education Foundation recently awarded the district $60,000…

  • Mixed emotions for Vikings who don’t move on

    WRESTLING: The underclassmen for SBHS can gain a glimpse at the future while the seniors see the end of their high school careers. By: Ken Weingartner    FLEMINGTON — Although the regional tournaments represent the conclusion of the season for those wrestlers who fail to advance, it can produce different feelings for different people.    For underclassmen,…

  • Steps forward

    The Amercian Repertory Ballet will debut ‘Dancing Through the Ceiling’ at McCarter Theatre in Princeton March 15. The show includes three world premieres by women choreographers. By: Susan Van Dongen Elaine Kudo is a ballet mistress for the American Repertory Ballet.    PRINCETON — High heels and construction boots have made cracks in the so-called "glass…

  • Embracing the poetry of the samurai

    The samurai of Japan were more than warriors, they were also poets, as third-graders at the Dayton School learned. By: Amanda Bok    He rang the gong and everything stopped.    The small library at the Dayton School ceased being a library, the third-graders sitting on the floor stopped being students and teachers stopped having to admonish…

  • Special presentation highlights plans for Roebling museum

           ROEBLING — A century ago, workers filed through the main gates of the Roebling Steel Mill from their homes in a brand new village that was created especially for factory workers and their families. By:Vanessa S. Holt    The steel mill is no more, but in a few years the public may be able to…

  • Upper Freehold announces school budget

    Taxes could increase 5 percent in Allentown and 3.5 percent in Upper Freehold. By: Frank C. D’Amico    UPPER FREEHOLD – Voters will decide April 17 whether to approve a $17.6 million budget for the Upper Freehold Regional School District, a spending plan that would result in a 5 percent school tax increase in Allentown and…

  • Don’t make it hard for needy to find help

    The borough should continue to administer its own welfare program for single people    Furthermore, only cursory evidence that eliminating administration of the program would save money and help Manville citizens have been shown so far.    Local administration of the program is up for a second vote and fifth discussion by the Borough Council on Monday,…