Category: archives
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POST FORUM: What directions would you give the Township Council as it reveiws the school budget?
POST FORUM Join the debate. The South Brunswick Post is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues. The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of South Brunswick want their…
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No sugarcoating
Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School teacher brings the dark realities of the Holocaust home to her eighth-grade students. By: William Wichert Nancy Collier, an eighth-grade reading teacher at Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School, doesn’t believe in sugarcoating the Holocaust. During one class a few years ago, when her students were discussing how they…
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Letters for the week of May 5
By: Use charter study to decide form of government To the editor: As I write this letter, I have before me a copy of the Optional Charter Law, or Faulker Act, which contains over 30 options for municipal government. Obviously not all are suited for Lawrence Township. Some are tailored for large cities and other…
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Yard, Palumbo do it all on softball field
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK By: Rudy Brandl Chrissy Yard and Candy Palumbo combine to bring all the necessary ingredients to the softball field for Hillsborough High. That was never more evident than in last week’s big 1-0 victory at Immaculata in a game the Raiders needed to stay unbeaten and alone atop the Delaware East…
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Suicide education program to begin
Allentown High School is implementing a suicide awareness and prevention program in the hope that no more students will be lost due to suicide. By: Lauren Burgoon UPPER FREEHOLD Most teenagers who take their own lives drop hints beforehand, research shows. Some tell friends of their plans outright. But what happens when teenage friends…
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Board of Education elects president and vice president for 2005-06
Board also sets a new school calendar. By:Lea Kahn The township Board of Education elected officers and three new board members took the oath of office at the April 28 reorganization meeting at the Lawrence High School library. Laura Waters, who was elected in 2004 on the Team for Change slate, was elected president. Michael…
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LETTERS: School budget was a sham
To the editor: As the editor, and my fellow South Brunswick residents know, I have been an occasional writer to this forum on various subjects pertaining to our mutual interest, i.e. South Brunswick. In the April 28 edition of the Post, I received a "double hit" of one of the best editorials, and the…
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Library plans temporary relocation
Temporary library to open in the public utilities building in municipal complex. By: Melissa Hayes The South Brunswick Public Library will have to shut its doors and temporarily relocate for a few weeks in June as its expansion project moves into the older portions of the building. The library will open in a limited form…
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New senior center director eager to make a difference
Lillian LaSalle looks forward to getting to know the seniors. By:Lea Kahn Lillian LaSalle has known Helen Holmes, the recently retired Lawrence Senior Center executive director, for many years through Ms. LaSalle’s work in the Mercer County Office on Aging. So when Ms. Holmes suggested to Ms. LaSalle that she should apply to fill that…
