Category: archives

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Protesters rally against Lawrence Wal-Mart

    About 100 people attend Aug. 19 demonstration. By: Lea Kahn    In a scene reminiscent of the anti-war demonstrations of the 1960s, about 100 people gathered on the curb on Lawrence Road outside the Municipal Building last week to protest plans to construct a Wal-Mart store on Spruce Street.    The crowd, made up of Lawrence, Ewing…

  • White Elephant 2004 sale to aid hospital

       Sponsored by the Auxiliary of University Medical Center at Princeton, White Elephant 2004, the 86th Annual Art, Antiques and Rummage Sale, will take place at Princeton Airport on Saturday, Oct. 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.    The collection of donations will continue until Saturday,…

  • Lt. Governor not needed

       To the editor:    New Jersey does not need to have a lieutenant governor. The first problem is expense. There are salaries for the lieutenant governor, the staff and security personnel. Other expenses are office space and stationary. In one term we are spending millions of dollars. And what will be the job of lieutenant governor?…