Category: archives
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Theater camp lets kids shine
Recreation department hosts camp By:Joseph Harvie MONROE The meeting room at the recreation center was overrun recently by screaming children. The shrieking youngsters were aspiring actors pretending to be stuck to a sticky floor thick with super glue. Earlier this week about 24 children read three children’s books, wrote a play based on the…
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Angling for a big catch at the derby
Monroe hosts fishing trip By:Joseph Harvie MONROE They came wearing hats of all sorts, used tackle boxes and inverted bait buckets as stools and had lures and worms in hand. The smell of chili dogs floated on gusts of wind that blew across the seven ponds at Molders Fish Farm. Golf carts whizzed down…
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Popular university tours starts with a backward step
Student guides craft their own routine before a following of 100 to 150 spectators. By: Aleen Crispino Many jobs require the ability to think on one’s feet, the art of being a poised public speaker and the mental agility to be able to field questions on a variety of topics. Princeton University students who volunteer…
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Step right up
Figuring out the twists and turns and ups and downs on the ride of carnival life By: Matthew Kirdahy Editor’s note: South Brunswick Post reporter Matthew Kirdahy decided to volunteer his time at the YMCA carnival last week. He spent a night on the other side of the water gun booth to give reader’s an…
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Board will study Johnson Avenue site
Redevelopment considered for 3.5 acre lot By: Lea Kahn Township Council asked the Planning Board on Tuesday to undertake a redevelopment study of a 3.5-acre tract of township-owned land on Johnson Avenue, for possible development for as many as 16 single-family houses. The council also agreed to hire an engineering firm to survey the land…
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Washington 10’s second in District 12 softball
By: Kyle Moylan The Washington Township 10-year-olds finished the District 12 Softball Tournament with a second-place finish last week. Washington was defeated by West Windsor in the finals, 8-3, on Tuesday, July 27. This was the second time Washington lost to West Windsor in the double-elimination Final Four. Lauren Fisher struck out four batters for…
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Former clerk claims ‘hostile environment’
Mansfield Township Committee appoints new acting clerk following resignation of former clerk. By: William Wichert MANSFIELD A former deputy municipal clerk filed a lawsuit early last month against the township and three Township Committee members, accusing them of firing her, reappointing her and then creating a "hostile work environment" after she began organizing a…
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Electricians giving with blood
Local 269 union supplies 87 units. By: Lea Kahn The Community Blood Council of New Jersey had hoped to collect 50 units of blood last week from the Lawrence-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 269, headquartered on Whitehead Road in Lawrence. But the electricians banded together and donated 87 units of the red stuff…
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County preserves area farms
Over 200 acres of farmland will be preserved in Florence and Springfield. By: Scott Morgan The Burlington County Freeholders approved the preservation of two farms in Florence and Springfield last week, a move that permanently saves 221 acres as farmland in those two towns. On July 28 the freeholders voted to preserve the 102-acre Reeder…
