Category: archives

  • LMS students fill delegates’ seats at regional Model U.N. conference

    LMS students joined 300 middle school students from New York City, Connecticut and New Jersey at the session, sponsored by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    Lawrence Middle School students Anna Bosted, Michael Coleman and Sarah Gilbert never imagined they would be sitting in the delegates’ chairs…

  • School Notes

       The kindergarten teachers are practicing Responsive Classroom. Although the kindergarten family is housed in two separate buildings, they make every effort to unite the students by getting together at various times during the month. All the kindergarten children get together on these occasions, at the Indian Fields at Dayton campus, to participate in Responsive Classroom…

  • Two men charged in rash of thefts

    Building materials, equipment stolen (Dec. 15) By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — What police thought was a run-of-the-mill arrest for the theft of wood from a Town Center construction site turned into a major investigation this month that linked the suspects to a cache of stolen items worth over $6,000 recovered at their Trenton residence, police…

  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 15, 2005

    No school immediately To the editor:     As president of the Board of Education, I have received several comments from residents as a result of the front page article in the Dec. 1 edition of Hopewell Valley News, e.g. "Officials see need for new school." While the article was factually correct, and did address the…

  • This Week

    Thursday    Book club: Janet Evanovich’s "Visions of Sugar Plums," is the topic for the Evening Book Discussion group that meets at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System.    This installment of Ms. Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series find the detective struggling to remove an intruder from her apartment and falling…

  • Santa makes rounds in South Brunswick

    Father Christmas to spend Sunday in town. By: Joseph Harvie    Jolly, old St. Nick may have a list that he checks twice, telling him who’s naughty and who’s nice.    But, fortunately for South Brunswick residents, he apparently forgot to check his calendar twice because he is making a special visit to the township on Sunday,…

  • POCKETS OF NEED

    Neighbors helping neighbors: volunteers lend a hand at food pantry. By: Joseph Harvie    Editor’s note: Pockets of Need is an occasional series that focuses attention on issues of hunger and economic need in South Brunswick.    The township-run Food Pantry was busy Tuesday morning.    Five volunteers were shuffling around cans of food in the pantry, as…

  • Rt. 522 money is OK’d

    Township Council unanimously approved an $8.5 million bond ordinance to pay for construction of the roadway, but expects to get the money back. By: Joseph Harvie    Route 522 could be completed by the end of next year now that the township has agreed to borrow more than $8 million to pay for its construction.    The…

  • Pair charged in kidnapping

    They held a 26-year-old township man against his will for two days, police say. By: Joseph Harvie    Township police took a man and a woman into custody late Wednesday afternoon for holding a 26-year-old township man against his will for two days, police said.    Ricky Joe Rakes, 30, was charged with kidnapping and child endangerment.…