Category: archives
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D&R Canal Commission’s only director is retiring
James C. Amon, former longtime resident of Hopewell Borough, is planning to step down in February. By David Campbell Delaware & Raritan Canal Commission Executive Director James C. Amon, a former longtime resident of Hopewell Borough, has been at the helm of the commission for as long as there’s been a canal state park. But…
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WWII Air Corps vet reunites with crew
Nick Reid, 81, works at the Pennington Market, where he toils in the produce department 30 hours a week. He recently took time off to go to Colorado reunion. By John Tredrea The bonds between crew members of a warplane run deep. They last for life, Nick Reid says. So seeing his old crew…
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Sample and Rhein advance to NJSIAA Group IV meet
Viking teams both improve from last year’s CJ IV meet By: Redd E. Patrick South Brunswick High School super sophomore Stephen Sample put himself on the local map two weeks ago by finishing fifth in the highly-competitive Greater Middlesex Conference Boys Cross Country Championship. Now they know who he is on a state level. At…
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Police Beat
BORDENTOWN CITY Police are looking for information concerning a Monday break-in to a car parked on the 100 block of Farnsworth Avenue. According to police, a woman had parked her Chevrolet Cavalier there around 4 p.m. When she returned about four hours later, police said, she found two cases of CDs, a radar detector and…
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Language of Kabuki
Princeton University’s Program in Theater and Dance presents ‘Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards.’ By: Jillian Kalonick PHOTO TIMEOFF/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Erica Schmidt is directing ‘Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards’ for the Princeton University Program in Theater and Dance at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre. The Japanese tradition of using puppets on stage…
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Hands and minds at work in technology class
This is the first of a two-part series about the information technology class taught at Florence middle and high schools. By: Scott Morgan FLORENCE Forgive the hyperbole. But here’s Monday morning’s opening salvo: "This is awesome what’s happening here." Typically, this kind of embellishment from a middle school assistant principal (in this case Theresa…
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Time for seniors to mobilize for a senior center
EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse Senior citizens who’d like to learn more about what could be available to them if Hopewell Valley had a senior center should make plans to attend a session Friday at Pennington Presbyterian Church. The Older Adult Committee of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, according to Larry Mansier of Hopewell Township, "strongly supports…
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BRHS, LCA boys’ soccer teams win
By: Sean Moylan "Our team out did our expectations this year," said Taylor Martucci, whose first-half goal lifted the Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity soccer team to a 1-0 triumph over John F. Kennedy Iselin in Tuesday’s NJSIAA Group II Central Jersey playoff opener. It was the kind of state tournament game that the…
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Mock elections teach about democracy
Northern Burlington County Regional High School students participate in a mock presidential election. By: William Wichert While the outcome of the presidential race was not clear until Wednesday morning, some local high school students already decided by the end of classes on Tuesday that they wanted the president back in the White House for another…
