Category: archives
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Board seeks new member
The Board of Education is looking to temporarily fill a school board seat. By: Melissa Hayes The Board of Education is looking for someone to fill a vacant school board seat until a permanent replacement is selected by the voters in the April 2006 school election. The volunteer would fill a seat left vacant by…
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Cavallo Park to get much-needed facelift
More than $8,000 will be spent on landscaping and other related improvements. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE Cavallo Park is about to get a facelift. The grounds there have become worn and ragged due to age, geese droppings and the April flood. Mayor David Del Vecchio said he’s received a handful of complaints over the…
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‘The Man’
This buddy-cop film is an uneven caper with a few chuckles but a lot of dead air. By: Bob Brown Eugene Levy is a funny nice guy in a droll sort of way. His style fits perfectly in the kind of loose ensembles that Christopher Guest puts together (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), where…
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Lawrence doesn’t give itself a ‘shot’
Lawrence boys soccer By: Jim Green If you don’t shoot, you can’t score. It’s that simple. The Lawrence High School boys soccer team played a fine all-around game Tuesday night, but it’s inability to get off quality shots led to it suffering its second straight loss to open the season, 2-0 to Hamilton at Zimmer…
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Grand opening for Back Timberlane fields set Oct. 1
Fields, called the Athletic Fields at Timberlane (AFT), were paid for with $500,000 raised by the nonprofit Hopewell Valley Recreation Foundation. By John Tredrea The grand opening of two new school district athletic fields at Back Timberlane will take place at 10 a.m. on Oct. 1. The event was announced by Hopewell Valley Regional Board…
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Wham powers Cards to win against Ewing
Lawrence field hockey By: John E. Powers The Lawrence High School field hockey team is already ahead of last year. The Cardinals, who lost their first three games of 2004 and finished the season at 6-9-2, dropped a 4-1 season-opener to Allentown last Friday, but rebounded Tuesday with a 4-1 win at Ewing. Senior forward…
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Municipalities adopt COAH ‘fair share’ laws
Florence and Springfield adopt growth share ordinances to address affordable housing By: Scott Morgan The township councils of Springfield and Florence each adopted growth share ordinances during their Sept. 7 meetings, which allows the municipalities to make a payment toward the cost of an affordable housing unit in lieu of having to build one. According…
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Stanley Dancer passes away at 78
One of the greatest horsemen ever to grace the sport of harness racing, Hall of Fame trainer-driver Stanley Dancer, died at his home in Pompano Beach, Florida, on Thursday after declining health for several years. He was 78. Dancer, whose training base for most of his career was his farm in New Egypt, New Jersey,…
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Teachers staying after for extra lessons, too
After-school classes focus on new technology By:Donna Lukiw Some Manville teachers will be staying after school this year, attending training courses to either learn something new or perfect their specialties. "The purpose of these classes is to continually keep our teachers trained in the latest technologies and methodologies so they can provide the best instruction…
