Category: archives
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Student joins Inauguration, visits D.C.
Junior Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference takes Crossroads South student to Washington, D.C. By: Melissa Hayes Crossroads South eighth-grader Suhas Nazare said March 15 that attending the Inauguration of President George W. Bush with 400 other middle school students was a great experience. The inauguration was only one part of the Junior Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference…
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Patrick Imlay, Part 2 of 7
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING From "The Imlay Family" by Hugh and Nella Imlay published from Zanesville, Ohio, in 1958. This week tells the story of three of Patrick’s four sons: Peter, Imlaystown’s namesake, Robert and William. Patrick Imlay had four known sons, viz: Peter, Robert, William and John. These are not named in the order of…
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Petitioners can help get charter study
To the editor By: Had George Ostergren, Glenn van Lier, and the other petitioners not sued the Township over a tiny technical omission in the advertisement of last year’s Charter Study Ordinance, a publicly-elected Hillsborough Charter Study Commission would now be close to completing its public hearings, and beginning the task of making the report…
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School nurses collaborate on handbook
By:Emily Craighead Manville High School nurse Marianne Marquis rarely diagnoses chicken pox in her high school students, and Weston School nurse Peggy Martone may not encounter many cases of mononucleosis among her kindergarten students. Still, the policies and practices the district’s four school nurses follow are similar enough the district decided it was time to…
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Clancy just misses placing at states
By: Ken Weingartner Matt Clancy felt a full range of emotions over the weekend at the NJSIAA wrestling tournament in Atlantic City. He felt excitement, he felt joy, and he felt disappointment. But above all, the South Brunswick High senior felt honored to be competing in the company of New Jersey’s best wrestlers. Clancy, wrestling…
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Horsnall declines a run for 5th term
David Horsnall will not seek re-election this year for another three-year term on the Upper Freehold Township Committee. By: Marisa Maldonado UPPER FREEHOLD After 12 years on Township Committee, David Horsnall is stepping down. Mr. Horsnall, who has served as mayor of the town three times and deputy mayor twice, will not seek re-election…
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School officials plan retirements
Gittelman, DelPrete to step down By:Emily Craighead Assistant Superintendent Virginia Gittelman is the latest district supervisor to set a retirement date, after Hillsborough Middle School Principal Robert DelPrete announced his on March 2. Dr. Gittelman, who led the district response to the No Child Left Behind Act, oversaw the introduction of string music into the…
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Police Beat
NORTH HANOVER A Bordentown Township man was charged with driving while intoxicated after police said they found him swerving on Jacobstown-Cookstown Road at 8:51 a.m. Friday, March 11. Tracey Groves, 33, of Thorntown Lane was pulled over after another driver flagged down Sgt. Robert Duff and informed him that Mr. Groves was driving erratically, police…
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R-rated movies regulated
District issues movie guidelines. By: Melissa Hayes The district issued guidelines last week that prohibit showing R-rated movies in elementary and middle schools, and sets guidelines for their showing in the high school. Superintendent Gary McCartney said the guidelines were issued after he discovered that a middle school teacher wanted to show an R-rated movie…
