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  • Students learn Veterans Day lessons

    Skit teaches children what Veterans Day is all about. By: Melissa Hayes    Every Friday morning, the student body of Monmouth Junction School files into the gymnasium for morning announcements.    But on Friday, the morning announcements also included a special message about Veterans Day.    Students watched a brief skit about Veterans Day performed by Kathy Wales’…

  • Familiar face hired at Indian Fields

    Indian Fields names new principal. By: Melissa Hayes    Applause from the school board, faculty, staff and community members welcomed newly approved Indian Fields School Principal Andrea Orlando to the podium Monday night.    Ms. Orlando was selected by the Indian Fields search committee to replace the current principal, Ray Ivey, who is retiring Dec. 31.    She…

  • Main says she’ll leave Hopewell Valley school board Dec. 31

    Board President Bill Hills said it’s likely the board will appoint a replacement before the April election By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Township’s Lisa Marin Main announced Wednesday that she is resigning from the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education, effective Dec. 31.    Board President Bill Hills said it is likely the board will appoint a…

  • SBHS hoped it set tone for a successful 2005

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The Red Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference can offer some very unforgiving competition for a young team, especially in girls’ soccer. That was the situation the South Brunswick High School Lady Vikings found themselves in this fall. They finished up 4-12 overall (2-11 in the Red), but used this season…

  • THE STATE WE’RE IN: Garden State or greenhouse state?

    THE STATE WE’RE IN By Michele S. Byers Is farm preservation really working?    You’re probably tired of countless polls and endless opinion surveys, a continuous chatter from recent elections … so, here comes another one!    The Eagleton Institute of Rutgers University just released a poll commissioned by the New Jersey Conservation Foundation to find out…

  • City not sure what to do with open space tract

    Voters approved a 2-cent tax to pay $1.4 million for 11 acres behind Lambertville Public School and Ely Field and 5 acres along Jefferson Road. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Now that voters have approved a new open space tax to pay for the acquisition of more than 11 acres on a hill behind Lambertville…

  • Pet Talk-Nov. 18, 2004

    Coping with a cat’s unacceptable behavior By: Dr. Daniel Eubanks    This is the last of a three-part series on feline behavior.    In the first and second parts of this series, we described the evolutionary origins of feline behaviors and how some of their instincts have persisted as unwanted attitudes in our domestic cat pets.    More…

  • BUSINESS WRAP-UP, Nov. 16

    Tyco sells telecom network    Tyco International, with headquarters in West Windsor, announced Nov. 1 it has agreed to sell its Tyco Global Network to Videsh Sanchar Nigam, India’s leading telephone and Internet services provider.    The $130 million sale is subject to government approval in the United States and India. Additional terms of the deal were…

  • Nov. 17, 10:25 p.m.: Standing up and fighting back

    We need to fight against the turn away from reason and intellect that the re-election of George W. Bush represents. By: Hank Kalet    Occasionally, you read something that makes you say, "I wish I’d written that." This piece in The New York Observer by Nicholas Von Hoffman, which calls on liberals to stand up to…