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  • Cheer camp a sound success

    The second annual camp was held last week at the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School gym, with about 39 girls attending both sessions. By: Mary Ellen Zangara    Manville High School cheerleaders Kimberly Mathewson, Laura Bocchino and Renee Dronebarger spent a week teaching younger girls how to jump, spin and do arabesques during the summer cheer camp.…

  • New TV show to make city ‘My Kind of Town’

    Two-hundred Bordentown City residents participate in a new TV game show. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — Christine Lento wasn’t worried. At first. She knew she was going to New York and she knew she’d be at least part of a genuine TV show audience.    But then, the doubts settled in. What exactly was she…

  • Bordentown Post 26 topped in playoffs

    By: Sean Moylan    Tom Dolan has had a few tough playoff losses during his great career as manager of the Post 26 American Legion baseball team.    But Dolan took Monday’s 9-4 playoff loss to North Trenton especially hard because it meant he would be saying good-bye to several of his all-time favorite players.    "It was…

  • Planning board sets town center hearing

    New standards will define the basic architectural design principles to guide new construction and redevelopment along Route 206 and Amwell Road where it crosses Route 206. By: Melissa Edmond    Planning Board Chairwoman Marian Fenwick-Freeman said next week’s board meeting to review planning for the town center is another step toward implementation of a plan that’s…

  • New assignment for SBHS grad

    Former student takes reins of English Department. By: Melissa Hayes    The school district appointed a familiar face and district graduate to the position of South Brunswick High School English supervisor, Monday.    "I think it’s going to work out well because I do have a sense of where South Brunswick has been but I also have…

  • Senior Menus-July 21, 2005

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $4.45. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, July 21 — Tomato and pasta salad,…

  • They Say It’s Wonderful

    The Yardley Players head outdoors for ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’ By: Megan Sullivan Andy Mahaney, Cathy Liebars, Bill Pessel and Scott Karlin star in the Yardley Players’ production of Annie Get Your Gun at Washington Crossing State Park’s Open Air Theater July 21-30.    Townspeople, children, cowboys and Indians mill around, gathering their hula hoops, pistols,…

  • New Hope named top arts destination

    The area received the designation from American Style magazine. By: Linda Seida    American Style magazine recently named New Hope and Lahaska the top small-town arts destination in the country for 2005.    Alisha Vincent, public affairs director for the Rosen Group, the magazine’s parent company, presented a certificate commemorating the honor to Mayor Lawrence Keller on…

  • Pet Talk-July 21, 2005

    High-tech mega leaps create cost problems By: Dr. Daniel Eubanks    Over the past 33 years, I have witnessed and participated in a dramatic evolution of veterinary medicine.    Many changes have occurred — mostly good and well-intended changes, but not without some inherent difficulties.    When I first entered practice in 1972, most private veterinary facilities were…