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  • $30.6M Northern Burlington budget adopted by board

    By: William Wichert    The Northern Burlington County Regional Board of Education adopted a $30.6 million budget on March 23, approving a tax rate increase proposal in one of its four sending municipalities for the 2005-2006 school year.    The budget, which includes $486,000 for replacing part of the high school’s roof, upgrading the school’s fire alarm…

  • Library enjoys a little help from ‘Friends’

    $30,000 gift helps furnish expanded library By:Roger Alvarado    Library Director Virginia Parks says she doesn’t know what the library would have done without a little help from its friends.    Recently, the Friends of the Hillsborough Public Library presented Ms. Parks with a check for $30,000 to cover the purchase of a new children’s reference desk,…

  • Sound and Spirit

    Joan Goldstein and John Burkhalter team up for a journey to Romania. By: Ilene Dube TIMEOFF/MARK CZAJKOWSKI John Burkhalter and Joan Goldstein rehearse for "Poetry and Sound: The Wild Dogs of Romania," to be performed at Barnes & Noble April 5.    Last spring, poet, artist and sociology professor Joan Goldstein traveled from her Montgomery home…

  • Animal adoption: beneficial for both pets and people

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By: Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN CITY — This is a town for pet lovers. From the ubiquitous cat in the window, to the familiar daily rounds of dog walkers making their way up and down the city’s handful of streets, pets are everywhere in Bordentown. Just walking up to Cecelia Arzola’s Prince Street…

  • Union Fire Company’s Enforcer makes way for flowers

    Enforcer can carry six people, 750 gallons of water and 1,000 feet of 5-inch fire hose. By John Tredrea    Titusville’s Union Fire Company and Rescue Squad, like many other organizations of its kind, was selling Easter flowers Saturday afternoon.    To make room for the flowers in the engine bay, the fire company’s Pierce Enforcer rescue-pumper…

  • No charges expected in fatal accident

    Criminal charges will not be pressed against driver involved in a fatal accident that occured March 6 in Bordentown Township. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Nearly a month after Suleman Khan died following a car accident in the Acme parking lot on Route 130, his family is still trying to figure out how this…

  • Author of ‘Family Matters’ speaks at CHS on April 25

    Robert Evans will explore the cultural shifts contributing to changes in child-rearing and pressures on schools.    The Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance in partnership with Princeton Academy and the Hopewell Valley Regional School District will present "An Evening with Robert Evans" on Monday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hopewell Valley Central High School Auditorium.…

  • LETTERS: The radical right must be fought

    To the editor:     Our Founding Fathers designed our government in a fashion that is envied the world over. They created branches and political parties so that no one person and no one party would able to have sole control to push any one ideology unwittingly down our throats in a dictatorial manner.    But radical…

  • On the Seventh Day…

    The Bucks County Choral Society and Riverside Symphonia perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ in Yardley, Pa., and Doylestown, Pa. By: Kara Fitzpatrick Randall Scarlata (above) and Jacqueline Horner (below) are soloists for the Buck County Choral Society and Riverside Symphonia performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ in Yarley and Doylestown.    In what what…