Category: archives
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Auditors recommend end to district charge cards
By:Emily Craighead Acting on recommendations from auditors Suplee, Clooney and Company, the Manville School District has stopped using district credit cards to purchase materials. The practice was generally used when maintenance employees purchased materials from the Bridgewater Home Depot using petty cash or a Home Depot commercial credit card. The purchases would be verified and…
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The Lion and the Line
The paintings of Dallas Piotrowski and the drawings of Harry Naar emphasize story, psychological underpinnings and technique. By: Ilene Dube A drawing by Harry Naar "Luminescence L’Avventura." Although Hamilton-based artist Dallas Piotrowski is known primarily for her paintings of wildlife and animals, she has had a lifelong love affair with books and a dream to…
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Rhein, Sample gear up for Group IV state meet
By: Redd E. Patrick At the beginning of the 2004 cross country season, Amy Rhein expected to be in this position to qualify for the Meet of Champions, while Steve Sample did not. Yet with the NJSIAA Group IV championship just two days away with a Meet of Champions berth on the line …
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Township supports West Trenton rail study
Committee approves resolution backing county move By:Roger Alvarado The Township Committee Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution in support of a county study that would determine how viable it would be to reactivate the West Trenton Rail Line. The Hillsborough town center plan calls for the restoration of the rail line. Currently, NJ Transit is looking…
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PERCEPTIONS: Finding meaning in the madness
There are lessons to be learned post-election. By: Steve Feitl So perhaps the young voters really did come out for Sen. John Kerry. At least that’s the opinion of one article I read this week in the post-election deluge. It argued that the get-out-the-vote campaigns did rally young voters, most of whom cast their support…
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‘The Incredibles’
Pixar’s tale of superheroes sent to the suburbs is a love letter to a perpetually squabbling family that turns out to be anything but dysfunctional. By: Elise Nakhnikian "That was a great movie, right?" piped up an excited preschooler in the audience for The Incredibles but that was after Boundin’, the goofily uplifting Pixar…
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Super Funk
Brought together during a New Orleans jazz festival, the members of funk supergroup The Frequinox realized they should take their act on the road. By: Jim Boyle Funk supergroup The Frequinox will groove at Conduit in Trenton Nov. 17. The supergroup is a rare and beautiful thing in the music business. Take a bunch of…
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Late night argument leads to charges
By:Roger Alvarado Farm Road resident Joel Mesa Ruiz, 27, was charged Monday with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and resisting arrest after he allegedly tried to stab his neighbor early Sunday, police said. The incident occurred at about 4:40 a.m. Sunday, when Mr. Ruiz and fellow Farm Road resident Oracio…
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Students hope to sweeten soldiers’ morale
Monmouth Junction kids hold candy drive. By: Melissa Hayes Dressed up in her spider-web girl costume while trick-or-treating, Hannah Sichel decided that she wanted to do something different with her Halloween candy this year. Hannah, a fourth-grader at Monmouth Junction School, and her mother, Joan Sichel, decided that they would donate a portion of her…
