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  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Police responded to the YMCA on East Mountain Road on a theft report at 8:20 p.m. Jan. 20.    The victim told police he’d left his black leather wallet, located in his right front pants pocket, in an unlocked locker at the facility at approximately 7:20 p.m.    When he returned he found that his pants…

  • DISPATCHES: A fiscal crisis of ‘rhetoric’ proportions

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet The safety net that Social Security provides Americans can not be dissolved through scare tactics.    Social Security is in crisis.    But not because its future is uncertain. The 70-year-old retirement system is facing an all-out rhetorical assault designed to transform the system and hand its assets over to Wall Street, essentially…

  • District organizes budget meetings

    First session is set for Wednesday. By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Township Board of Education plans to kick off the first in a series of budget preparation meetings Wednesday, when it considers priorities listed by the seven school building principals.    The meeting, which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Lawrence High School Library, is one…

  • Indian community slates Sunday fund-raiser for tsunami victims

       The Indian American community of the Princeton area is rallying to grieve the dead of the great tsunami and to raise funds for the relief of survivors.    On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Community Middle School, Plainsboro, the Indian American Civic Forum (IACF), based in Princeton Junction, will present a free cultural program in memory…

  • Union protests labor practices at school site

    Workers from Locals 2 and 5 of the New Jersey International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers protested a company overseeing school construction in Bordentown Township. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — For two days last week, a large inflatable rat greeted drivers along Ward Avenue outside the construction site of the new Bordentown Regional…

  • Sustainable practices called for in forum

    Prep school hosts The Greening of Lawrence. By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence Township has always been a progressive community in preserving its natural assets. It is one of the first towns in Mercer County to participate in the farmland preservation program, and it also has been named a Tree City USA.    So it’s not much of…

  • Lucky ‘trip’ results in 4×400 win for BRHS

    By: Sean Moylan    Rob "Super" Novak is a superior athlete with a kind, compassionate heart.    So when he was forced to choose between aiding in his Bordentown teammates’ good fortunes or helping a fellow athlete in the 4×400 meter relay race at last Wednesday’s Ridgewood Winter Games II at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New…

  • Zenerovitz happy with effort in loss

    Lawrence girls basketball By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School girls basketball team knew what the situation was Friday.    The Cardinals did not have reasonable expectations of winning when they visited Trenton. But they did have goals.    "We just wanted to play hard," Lawrence coach Gregg Zenerovitz said. "We just wanted to see an effort.…

  • Manville boys break through for first victory

    Team avenges loss with win over Bound Brook By: Shawn Tyrrell        BOUND BROOK — It took nine games and almost half the season before the Manville High boys’ basketball team finally managed to get a win. The team did so in dramatic fashion, beating arch-rival Bound Brook 65-59 last Thursday night on the road…