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  • Former Devil to promote reading

    Fomer New Jersey Devil Bruce Driver will be signing autographs at the Princeton Sports Arena. By: Joseph Harvie    Reading can help you accomplish any goal, and on Saturday a former New Jersey Devils player will drive home this point to a few youth hockey teams from New Jersey.    Former New Jersey Devil defenseman Bruce Driver…

  • SCHOOLS: Measuring madness

    Math can be fun, especially when games are involved. By: Sarah Winkelman EditorMarch is measuring month at St. Augustine of Canterbury School and the students are all getting in on the fun.    On Monday, students in the three pre-kindergarten classes paired up with fifth- and eighth-graders to complete three measurement exercises aimed at teaching them…

  • ‘Battle’ tests readers’ literary chops

    MacFarland Junior School students were among those in the "Battle of the Books" last week. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — It is not the baseball championship game or the daunting soccer tryouts, but it can be just as competitive and gut-wrenching.    It is the Battle of the Books, that annual test of a student’s…

  • Bobik’s boys win C.J. Group I championship

    By: Sean Moylan    Following the Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity basketball team’s 72-55 loss to A.P. Schalick in the NJSIAA State semifinals last Thursday at Cherry Hill East High School, Flashes’ Coach Art Bobik complimented the Cougars on their victory.    "I give Schalick all the credit in the world," said Bobik, pointing to…

  • For the March 17 issue

    Clinton Warrington, Edna M. Hoffman, Ronald A. Krecicki, Catherine Voss. Clinton Warrington    ALLENTOWN — Clinton Warrington Sr., 67, died March 7 at home.    Born in Milton, Del., he had been a longtime area resident.    Mr. Warrington was a retired horse trainer and driver for many area farms, including Stanley Dancer Stables in New Egypt.    He…

  • BRHS girls’ basketball places 2nd in CJ II

    By: Sean Moylan    After graduating all-star starters Randi Temple and Tochi Shilow last spring, the Bordentown Regional High School girls’ varsity basketball team would have possibly gladly signed up for an appearance in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II finals at the beginning of this past season.    Yet as the season progressed the Scotties kept…

  • LETTERS: A grateful note of farewell

    To the editor:     I would like to take one last opportunity as your chief of police to thank all those who have made the past 27 years possible.    When I became a police officer in 1978 I could never have imagined the road ahead. I was blessed to have been surrounded by a supportive…

  • Hearing slated on school tab

    Tuesday budget hearing to give residents a chance to speak. By: Melissa Hayes    Residents will get a chance to comment Tuesday on a proposed $119.2 million school budget.    The budget, which is 7.6 percent larger than the $111 million spending plan approved by voters in 2004, calls for a 9 percent increase in the school…

  • Budget meetings set for Tuesday

    Debt drives municipal spending. By: Joseph Harvie    A $5.25 million increase in debt payments in 2005 is helping push township spending to $44.1 million.    The added debt is about 70 percent of the total increase in spending being proposed by Township Manager Matt Watkins.    The budget, which is expected to be introduced Tuesday, calls for…