Category: archives
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Letters to the editor
For the April 14 issue. Take time to vote in school budget election To the editor: It is important that everyone remember to vote on Tuesday, April 19 in the annual school budget election. The Bordentown Regional School District Board of Education and administration worked very hard on the budget. In spite of the fact…
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Poetic license
A conversation between two writers on the art of verse. By: Hank Kalet I’ve been writing poetry since I was 18, since that first moment when the muse hit me. It was the spring of 1981 and I was finishing my freshman year at Pennsylvania State University, failing my classes and bumming around. And while…
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EDITORIAL: School tab warrants a ‘yes’ vote
Support the budget and approve both questions – the education of South Brunswick’s students is at stake. No one likes tax bills to increase, but sometimes there is little you can do. That’s the situation the Board of Education finds itself in this year. Faced with growing enrollment, flat state aid and a declining ratable…
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Police seeking reinforcements
Police Department asks Township Council to hire 10 more officers and to change the selection process for hiring. By: Joseph Harvie About 55 members of the South Brunswick Police Department asked the Township Council on Tuesday to hire 10 more officers over the next two years and change the hiring selection process. PBA Local 166…
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Buildings and Light
Michener Art Museum colleagues Bruce Katsiff and Brian Peterson get an exhibit of their own at the Riverrun Gallery. By: Susan Van Dongen "Rock Forms" Series 24 by Brian Peterson. For photographers Bruce Katsiff and Brian Peterson, having an exhibit of their own work is kind of like getting to be the bride after years…
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Laxmen pitch rare shutout
RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl The Hillsborough High boys’ lacrosse team took out the frustrations of a pair of one-goal losses by rolling over Mount Olive last Thursday. The Raiders posted a 12-0 shutout for their first victory. Hillsborough (1-3), which lost by a 10-7 margin vs. Ridge Saturday, has outscored the opposition by…
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Students move from the classroom to the boardroom
Northern Burlington high school students participate in "Apprentice"-style project with School Business Administrator Richard Kaz. By: William Wichert Hands intertwined and resting on their laps, the teenage workers raised their bowed heads and looked across the boardroom table as the boss delivered the final blow. Somebody was getting fired. For television fans, this may sound…
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Sorg sparks victory over state champ
Hopewell Valley softball By: Jim Green When a team has a stretch of games like the one the Hopewell Valley Central High School softball team had this week, it usually is thrilled to win two of three. The Lady Bulldogs sandwiched big wins over Montgomery and West Windsor-Plainsboro South around a loss to Hillsborough. But…
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Hopewell Valley June primaries will be contest-free
There will be a race in November for two open Hopewell Township Committee seats. By Ruth Luse There will be no primary election battles in Hopewell Valley on June 7. And in Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough, unless things change, there will be no contests for open seats in the November general election, either. …
