Month: July 2011
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SPRINGFIELD: Referendum to go to voters March 13
By Amber Cox, Special Writer SPRINGFIELD — A timeline for the Springfield Township Elementary School referendum — including the actual vote March 13 — has been set along with a steering committee to overlook the project. Elementary Supervisor Jared Fudurich explained the steering committee is made up of Joseph Miller, superintendent and principal; Board of…
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Learners Welcome returns to Stockton Borough School
In September, the Stockton Borough School will bring back the Learners Welcome evening school for adults. Instructors are donating their services and 100 percent of the class cost will go the Stockton Borough School PTO. The Stockton PTO offers “fantastic programs to its elementary students such as Mandarin Chinese, guitar lessons and karate classes. Upcoming…
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BORDENTOWN: Post 26 makes Final Eight
Run secures berth for Legion baseball team By Justin Feil, The Packet Group Slow starts don’t hurt Bordentown Post 26. They started the regular season slowly only to win 13 straight games to win the Mercer County American Legion League. They started the District 4 tournament in Toms River with a loss to Mt. Laurel,…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: SB-MWA Reserve gets 70 new acres
By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor July 15, the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association — in partnership with Mercer County and Hopewell Township — purchased almost 70 acres of forest, wetlands and meadow from Thompson Realty Company and Princeton Research Lands, boosting the organization’s Watershed Reserve to 930 acres. This new land acquisition brings together two previously…
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EDITORIAL: Transit talk goes on and on
You have to give it to the Princeton Borough Council. It is persistent, if not repetitive. The elected body has been fighting the moving of the Dinky station for ages now. And during that time the news has been all bad for the council. Princeton University plans to move the station 460 feet to the…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Walsh aids softball defense
New catcher helps Robbinsville close in on title By Justin Feil, The Packet Group It’s days in the recent heat wave that make Shea Walsh question moving to catcher. ”I get really hot,” said the Robbinsville 10-year-old all-star. “I think this has been the hottest I’ve had so far.” Walsh and her Robbinsville teammates have…
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POLICE BLOTTER: July 28, 2011
Florence Wayne M. Boise, 43, of Browns Mills, and Dalbbagh, 63, of Roebling, were charged with theft and fraudulent use of a credit card on July 20. Police said that between Jan. 1 and May 31, Mr. Boise was driving a tractor-trailer for Papco Trucking. He had a company credit card and went to the…
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COLUMBUS: Northern Burlington 8U softball team wins state
Will represent at regionals By Justin Feil, The Packet Group The Northern Burlington 8-and-under all-star softball team expected to do better this year with more than half of the team returning, but no one expected it to be this good. Northern Burlington knocked off Hamilton, 11-1, in four innings in the if-necessary game to capture…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Pilot’s condition improves
Helicopter passenger, freelance photographer Julia Armstrong-Robertson, in a photo from her Delaware business web´site, remains in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson Univer´sity Hospital in New Brunswick following the crash behind the In´dian Fields Elementary School in Dayton last week.