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EDITORIAL: High tax serves higher public purpose
Benefits of smoking tax more than financial benefits. For the past several years, most states, including New Jersey, have tapped a bountiful source of revenue to help balance their annual budgets: smokers. Increasingly shunned by society, and rendered more or less politically powerless after their once-vaunted lobbying group, the tobacco industry, agreed in 1998 to…
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Bulldogs building football program for BRHS’s future
By: Sean Moylan With a strong background in the famed Florence football program, Mike Denelsbeck seems like the perfect choice to coach the Bordentown Bulldogs 10 to 14-year-old football team (the 125’s). "We average four or five practices a week. We had a four-hour practice on Saturday," said Denelsbeck, who believes in working the kids…
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Postal worker faces charges
Employee allegedly intercepted and used residents’ credit cards By:Matthew Kirdahy Police charged a Monmouth Junction Post Office employee last week with theft of a credit card and credit card fraud after he allegedly used ATM debit cards taken from the post office, police said. Detective James Ryan, South Brunswick police spokesman said the post office…
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30 years later, still fighting dragons
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK,Vanessa S. Holt Green slime and trolls are best killed with fire. Blue dragons breathe electricity. Blunt weapons work best against skeletons. What, you mean you didn’t know? These things are all common knowledge where I come from. The ins and outs of monsters and medieval weaponry were my bread and butter playing Dungeons…
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Reaching out to students and families
Brooks Crossing teachers help with first day jitters By:Sharlee Joy DiMenichi Teachers at the Brooks Crossing School are meeting with parents and children to celebrate the excitement and calm the jitters caused by the first day of school on Sept. 7. The Wishes and Dreams program, which involves teachers writing to and meeting with students…
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Building now will address variety of concerns
GUEST OPINION By Lisa Marin-Main On Tuesday, Sept. 28, the voters of Hopewell Valley will be asked to approve a school referendum that will address our school district’s facilities and technology issues. Our enrollment continues to climb steadily. We are expecting 3,930 students in September, up from 3,837 last year. At Timberlane Middle School, which…
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Council to vote on campaign petition
Pay-to-play ordinance proposed by citizens may be placed on ballot By:Matthew Kirdahy The Township Council is expected to decide Tuesday whether to approve a citizens group’s campaign finance reform proposal. If approved, rules outlined in The proposed ordinance would be combined with rules of an existing campaign finance ordinance. If the township rejects the proposal,…
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City police to increase DWI patrols
Bordentown City Police are taking part in the national two-week "You Drink, You Drive, You Lose" campaign to keep alcohol out of the driver’s seat. By: Scott Morgan BORDENTOWN CITY It goes a little something like this police officer arrests a drunken driver, who then must go to court, which then will either…
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The classes must go on
School officials not worried about vacant supervisor jobs. By: Emily Craighead Despite resignations and reshuffling among the curriculum supervisors, Hillsborough school administrators expect a smooth start to the school year. District administrators have been working to find replacements for the supervisors of social studies and REACH, science, math, and world languages. The Board of Education…
