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  • Goodstein pitched better than ever for Mercer

    LHS grad helped Vikings reach Region 19 final By: Jim Green    When Jessica Goodstein graduated from Lawrence High School two years ago, she thought her softball-playing days were over.    Rarely has anyone been so happy to be so wrong.    After a year away from the game, Goodstein once again is pitching — this time at…

  • Death camp survivor taught his son not to hate

    Bordentown City man discusses his late father’s experiences as a Holocaust survivor. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — High on the rear wall of the front room of Michael Bergman’s Farnsworth Avenue photography studio hang a quartet of large-scale portraits. Two of them show individuals; the other two, large families gathered in living rooms.    It’s…

  • Take the time to weigh options for senior center

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    Before those urging Valley officials to support the building of a senior center get too excited about the possibility of it being placed on one of the tracts Beazer Homes hopes to develop in southern Hopewell Township, we suggest a cooling-off period. Since that idea was discussed early last week, another…

  • Regional school budget in line for $250,000 cut

    Northern Burlington County Regional school board and elected officials agree to reduce school budget, which was rejected by voters last month. By: William Wichert    After voters rejected its $30.6 million budget last month, the Northern Burlington County Regional school board and elected officials from the four sending municipalities tentatively agreed Tuesday night to cut $250,000…

  • Prisions are this century’s growth industry

    EDITORIAL By: Plastics.    Everybody remembers that one-word piece of whispered wisdom Mr. McGuire (played by Walter Brooke) delivered to the befuddled Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) in the 1967 hit movie, "The Graduate."    Well, here it is 38 years later, and plastics is no longer the growth industry it once was. But there is…

  • Open space, tax control highlighted at debate

    Washington Township’s mayoral and council candidates debate in the last public forum before the May 10 election. By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — If voters walked into Monday’s mayor and council debates hoping to figure out what sets the candidates apart, they certainly got their wish.    Monday was the last big chance the two men running…

  • ‘Family Matters’ author Rob Evans nurtures parents

    GUEST COLUMN By Sheryl Stone    Over 125 parents and staff enjoyed three different presentations by psychologist Rob Evans on April 25.    His focus on what really matters in our family life and his engaging, humorous style nurtured every parent and educator who heard him during the course of his day-long visit to Princeton Academy and…

  • Pennington budget plan needs 8-cent tax rate hike

    Public hearing, adoption vote scheduled for June 6. By John Tredrea    A $2,864,230 Pennington budget for 2005 that would bring a municipal tax-rate increase of 8 cents per $100 of assessed property value, if adopted, was introduced by a 4-1 Borough Council vote Monday night.    The increase would bring the borough’s rate to 71 cents,…

  • Failed budget item gets second chance

    Board members take request to township By:Donna Lukiw    Although the $261,416 separate spending budget was defeated by voters on April 19, Board of Education members are not giving up on the plan.    Board members met with Township Committee members Tuesday to discuss a way of either getting all or some of the funds that were…