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  • Local school board candidates outline their positions

    By: Scott Morgan and William Wichert    Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part look at candidates seeking positions on area school boards on April 19. Next week profiles of candidates in the Bordentown Regional, Northern Burlington, North Hanover and Springfield school districts.    Despite the crunch of budget numbers being flung at them, residents…

  • School budget set for April 19 ballot

    Third-grade teachers added in final plan By:Emily Craighead    The Board of Education’s March 23 budget hearing was quick and painless compared to the three-hour meeting two days earlier when dozens of parents urged board members to add three third-grade teachers and keep class sizes down at Sunnymead, Woodfern and Woods Road schools.    After approving an…

  • March 31, 2005-A

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal…

  • Science fair

    Lambertville Public School has sixth-grade science fair. Chad Moore (left) and Michael Failla listen to sound through a tube while learning how sound travels during the Lambertville Public School sixth-grade Science Fair March 17.

  • Exchanging places: Jaunt to France gives AHS students cultural perspective, fond memories

    LIFESTYLE By: Ashley Caudill    For Allentown High School students who traveled to France in February, it was the cultural similarities more than the differences that most surprised them during the trip.    Seventeen high school students — 15 sophomore French 4 students from Barbara Lehman’s class and two upperclassmen — traveled to France from Feb. 18-26.…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Township Police reported a stop sign usually located on the corner of Sunnymead and Weston roads missing at 7:12 a.m. March 17.    Police were responding to a residential alarm in the area when they drove by the street corner and noticed the sign missing.    According to police, the post that usually holds the sign…

  • Florence school budget ready to go before voters

    By: Scott Morgan    FLORENCE — The school board last week approved its 2005-2006 budget, a $22.28 million package that would add an extra $245 to the school tax bill of a resident who owns a home assessed at the $112,000 township average.    Residents will vote on the proposed budget on April 19 when school board…

  • HHS laxmen seek improvement

    Defense key to rebuilding process By: John E. Powers        Through five scrimmages this spring, Hillsborough High boys’ lacrosse team head coach Vinnie Coviello has seen progress, but also noticed some things that need improving.    The Raiders, 3-16 last year, will open the season Friday at Montgomery and there’s enough reason to believe things can…

  • March 30, 2005-C

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal…