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  • Gaudioso Radvany’s summer is spent playing field hockey

    Lawrence resident fine-tunes game at five camps By: Bob Nuse    Most high school students prefer to spend their summer at the beach or at the pool, or maybe just lying around doing nothing.    For Lawrenceville resident Jaclyn Gaudioso Radvany, the summer was spent playing field hockey. The freshman at Stuart Country Day School capped off…

  • This Week

    Thursday    Grief seminar: ALIGHT, (Along In Grief, Healing Together) of Samaritan Hospice, will offer a seminar at 2 p.m. at the Lawrence Library Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System. The seminar aims to help participants understand the grieving process. An overview of various support groups, reading material, and other resources will be provided.…

  • District ‘warned’ over test results

    Plumsted elementary school placed on State’s "Early Warning" list for not meeting testing requirements. By: Marisa Maldonado    PLUMSTED — Inadequate test performance by two groups of students placed the Dr. Gerald H. Woehr Elementary School on the state’s "Early Warning" list for not meeting state testing requirements for the 2004-05 school year.    The list is…

  • Getting ready

    Newest students meet teachers. By: Melissa Hayes    Future kindergarten students lined up outside Constable School recently. They had their backpacks and lunch boxes and were eagerly awaiting their first glimpse into the next year.    They waved goodbye to their parents as their soon-to-be teachers led them inside, some stopping in their tracks until they got…

  • Marchers hope to shed light on injustices in Burma

    Protesters march into South Brunswick on a month-long trek to raise awareness about political strife in Burma. By: Lauren Burgoon    While people went about their daily lives Tuesday, a small group of strangers walked quietly into South Brunswick along Route 130, largely unnoticed except for some passersby who looked curiously at their signs and moved…

  • Committee adopts $23.5 million budget

    Amdended spending plan will raise municipal taxes by 12.6 percent. By: Melissa Edmond    An amended municipal budget that will raise taxes by 12.6 percent was adopted by the Township Committee Tuesday night.    The committee voted 4-1 to pass the $23.5 million spending plan. Committeeman Anthony Ferrera cast the dissenting vote.    The committee introduced the 2005…

  • Town to appeal petition ruling to state’s top court

    "We want a Supreme Court decision," committeeman says. By: Melissa Edmond    The Township Committee will appeal to the state Supreme Court a judge’s decision that allows a question to change Hillsborough’s form of government to be placed on the Nov. 8 ballot.    After meeting in executive session during Tuesday night’s meeting, the committee voted 3-2…

  • Offering hope

    Township man pitches in, many miles from home. By: Donna Lukiw    It’s not very common to board a plane with half a suitcase filled with vitamins, medicine and a sewing machine, but when Brian Fischer of Riverside Drive was preparing to help build a village in Ecuador, his personal items were not a priority.    During…

  • LCA boys’ soccer has a title among its goals

    By: Sean Moylan    The biggest problem facing the Life Center Academy boys’ varsity soccer team coming into this season was finding a replacement for superstar goalie Mike Kurlander, who graduated last spring.    And yet, if senior Ulysses Wallace plays as well in games as he has in practices, goalie may be a strength for LCA…