Category: archives
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Egg-tasting
Hopewell’s annual egg event Clara Wood, 2, of Hopewell eats her Easter egg as she waves goodbye to the Easter Bunny. Area children enjoyed the annual Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by Hopewell Valley American Legion Post 339 and Hopewell Fire Department. The event was held at the 339 Post Home, Van Dyke Road.
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LETTERS: For Speesler, Nathanson
To the editor: The importance of the upcoming school board election cannot be over emphasized. There are many difficult challenges that will have to be met by the Board of Education members, caused by the rapidly growing number of children in our schools, shrinking state aid and budget constraints. It is more important than…
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Special meeting set on municipal budget
Township Council to finish review of spending plan Monday night. By: Lea Kahn Township Council plans to hold a special meeting next week at the Municipal Building to wrap up its review of the proposed 2005 municipal budget, on the way to introducing the spending plan in April. The meeting, set for 7 p.m. Monday…
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Rider U. swept at Hofstra
Rider baseball By: Jim Green The Rider University baseball team isn’t having any trouble starting games. Closing them, well, that’s another story. The Broncs blew substantial early leads in both games of a doubleheader Saturday at Hofstra, dropping both to fall to 2-10 on the season. "We can’t hold a lead," Rider coach Barry Davis…
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LETTERS: Government needs to diet
To the editor: Wouldn’t it be great if you could sit, eat, watch television and lose weight? That is not going to happen anytime soon. To lose weight one must sacrifice something. It could be free time or favorite foods. The same logic applies to government. Some do not want more ratables moving into…
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E-squared Award recipients are Kim Bruno, Merrill Lynch
Awards dinner is set for May 6 at the Hopewell Valley Golf Club. Each year the Hopewell Valley Education Foundation gives the E-Squared Award to one individual and one business/corporation. E-Squared stands for Education and Enterprise and the award is designed to honor one individual and one corporation who have made a difference in the…
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Vikings meshed together
By: James McKeever A coach in any sport at any level is always striving to have his or her team playing better at the end of the season than at the start. That’s exactly what happened to the South Brunswick High girls bowling team. Short on experienced bowlers coming into this season, Vikings coach Tara…
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Letters to the Editor, March 24, 2005
Why pay Lorenzetti? To the editor: In the interest of promoting fair and honest debate on the extraordinary issues surrounding this year’s budget preparations, I think it’s important for our community to clearly understand the board’s decision to pay its former superintendent, Nick Lorenzetti, while also paying Judy Ferguson, our acting superintendent. As the…
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Burlington County promotes new 211 call center
Dialing 211 connects callers to a social services hotline providing direct help and referral information for an array of social services. By: Scott Morgan If you were to pick up a phone and dial 911, what would you get? Easy, right? And probably as easy a guess as what happens when you dial 411. But…
