Category: archives
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Start the day with Janet Evanovich
BOOK NOTES by Dr. Joan Ruddiman This is true confessions time. I’ve never listened to a book on tape and I’ve never read a Janet Evanovich novel. Until now. Spring break allows for some indulgences along with playing catch-up and the desperate attempts to get ahead. On the to-do list was to go to the…
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Congratulations to Little League
To the editor By: I’d just like to congratulate Hillsborough Little League for 50 years of baseball fun for Hillsborough boys and girls. I spent the entire decade of the 1990s managing or coaching my two sons in the Hillsborough Little League. I am so thankful I had this opportunity as it not only contributed…
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Pennington takes home ‘The Rock’
Defeats Hopewell 12-7 in lacrosse battle By: Mike Molaro An insurance company had a popular slogan years ago that urged people to "own a piece of the rock." The Pennington School boys lacrosse squad didn’t have to buy a policy to obtain their chunk of granite. The Red Raiders went out and captured "The Rock"…
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Van Doren sells lumber business to former Hopewell official
Bob Van Doren began working at the business as a boy, back in the 1920s. By John Tredrea What has been known as Van Doren’s lumberyard for as long as most Hopewell Borough area residents can remember has been sold. The Model Avenue site really wasn’t a lumberyard when his father, Jacob, bought it in…
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New law takes aim at ‘pay-to-play’
Mansfield Township Committee introduces a redesigned ordinance aimed at preventing "pay-to-play" practices. By: William Wichert MANSFIELD A redesigned ordinance aimed at preventing the "pay-to-play" practice of awarding no-bid township contracts to political contributors is back on the table. Five months since the original "anti-pay-to-play" ordinance caused a rift between members of the Township Committee,…
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Voters nix school tab
Voters turn down budget by a margin of five votes. By: Melissa Hayes As the numbers came in, district administrators, school board members and their families held on to the hope that the news would get better. That wasn’t the case, however. South Brunswick voters, by a 1,475-1,470 margin on Tuesday, turned down the school…
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Local kids join Election Day voters
Township students cast their votes at a polling station at the Washington Township Fire Department as part of Project Democracy. By: Lauren Burgoon WASHINGTON Civic responsibility starts early in Washington. Mixed in among adults voting on the school budget and selecting school board members Tuesday were hundreds of township students voting on their own…
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Supernatural Sound
Kip Rosser will demonstrate the magic of the theremin during a marathon performance at the David Sarnoff Library. By: Kara Fitzpatrick PHOTO: KARA FITZPATRICK Kip Rosser practices the theremin daily, and plays classical music, jazz and pop on the electrical instrument. With the theremin positioned in front of him, he moves his arms around it…
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Having fun for a good cause
St. Baldrick’s celebration Iain McWhirter (left) gets his head shaved by Diana Cooper from Beverly Hills Hair Salon. With him is brother Andrew, who also took part in the St. Baldrick’s event to help raise money for cancer research Saturday at Timberlane Middle School. The event raised over $10,000.
