Category: archives
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LMS principal revels in giving students a fresh start
Nancy Pitcher to retire June 30 after 33 years in education. By: Lea Kahn Lawrence Middle School Principal Nancy Pitcher received a letter from a student a few weeks ago, thanking the principal for giving him a "fresh start" and pledging to prove to her that he could handle himself in an academic environment. "The…
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Fighting domestic violence earns honor for local man
Anthony Winchatz’s work was recently honored by the New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women By:Roger Alvarado Hillsborough resident Anthony Winchatz has spent the better part of 18 years at the forefront of the fight against domestic violence. In 1987, law enforcement throughout the state began focusing more on domestic violence and officers started receiving specialized…
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Diego Valdivia
By: HILLSBOROUGH Diego Jesus Valdivia died April 1 at home. He was 15 months old. Surviving are his parents, Luis and Rosa Valdivia; a sister, Gabriella; his maternal grandparents, Luisa and Neptali Ojeda; his paternal grandparents, Luis Valdivia and Elizabeth Guiterez. A funeral service was held April 5 from Hillsborough Funeral Home in Hillsborough.…
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Dawgs could have even more bite
Hopewell Valley boys tennis By: John E. Powers The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys tennis team surprised some people by edging West Windsor-Plainsboro North last year to win the Colonial Valley Conference Patriot Division title. Head coach Alma Quinlan’s team might not surprise anybody this year, because maybe just maybe they might…
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Local parish set to welcome leader
Archbishop will attend Sunday services as New Jesrey parishes gather By:John Patten and Michael Redmond Manville will host the head of the Orthodox Church in America on Sunday, as New Jersey parishioners of the church continue Lenten celebrations. His Beatitude the Most Blessed Herman, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, will…
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Heading for the Light
Emerge Theatre Company debuts with Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons.’ By: Jim Boyle It’s taken two long years for Marshall Jones to make Emerge Theatre Company a reality. Coupled with his duties as an assistant professor in the theater arts department of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of Arts, Mr. Jones spent long hours putting…
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LETTERS: Mayor should back residents’ interests
To the editor: Last week your staff writer Joseph Harvie wrote an appropriately dispassionate article about the newly formed East Village Association’s efforts to stop rezoning attempts by The Morris Company to turn a 220 acre farm into three warehouses. As I read this article I was struck by what seemed a quick dismissal…
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LETTERS: Vote ‘yes’ on budget; for Abscutz, DeFalco
To the editor: I support both questions of the school district’s proposed budget and the candidacies of Martin Abschutz and Attilio DeFalco. I urge all community members to do the same. Having served as a board member for 22 years, several as budget chair, I understand the challenges faced by the current board in…
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School board hopefuls offer different views at forum
Advocates for Special Kids holds candidates’ night. By: Lea Kahn Candidates for the township Board of Education battled over their support for Schools Superintendent Max Riley and the district’s proposed 2005-06 budget at the Advocates for Special Kids candidates’ night last week. The seven candidates incumbents Philip Benson and Carole Drury, and challengers Ginny…
