Category: archives
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Puppet power
New Egypt Elementary school teacher creates a new learning tool to help students learn about puppetry and drama, Spanish language and culture. By: Dan Sergeant PLUMSTED Elementary school teacher Scott Jacobs devised an interesting way to teach his students about the world around them. He uses puppets. Mr. Jacobs, who teaches Spanish and gifted-and-talented…
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Changing lives, one word at a time
By: Scott Morgan TRENTON Jamie Parker is running late. If she didn’t get the extra sleep, she was going to wake up sick, and that doesn’t fly when your life is constantly in fifth gear. Waiting for her in the Gilman-Stanley building, better known as the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (or TASK), is a…
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Morven to host plant sale May 8
The terraces at Historic Morven in Princeton will be filled with an assortment of plants for the discriminating gardener during an heirloom plant sale on Saturday, May 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Plants for sale will include flowering annuals, 10-foot castor bean plants, cascading coleus, old-fashioned petunias, lush flowering vines, time-tested roses, peonies…
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Lawrence observers analyze 19-percent turnout
Large tax increase, heated board race credited. By: Lea Kahn Combine a proposed 16-cent property tax rate increase with a hotly contested race for three school board seats and the result is a larger-than-average voter turnout, according to some observers of the April 20 school board election. Nineteen percent of the 16,147 registered voters in…
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Closing of The Great Road now set for Saturday
By: David Campbell The Great Road will be closed between North Road and Pretty Brook Road beginning Saturday, weather permitting, for sanitary-sewer improvements to the Coventry Farm park. The road closing originally was planned for this week but was postponed due to rain, said Princeton Township Engineer Robert Kiser. Work is expected to start 7…
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Charter study ordinance introduced
Hillsborough Township Committee action could render petition drive moot. By: Roger Alvarado The race is on between a group of residents who seek a ballot question to change Hillsborough’s form of government and the all-Republican Township Committee, which introduced an ordinance Tuesday to ask voters if a study of the question should be undertaken. The…
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Siris still searching for consistency
Boys lacrosse By: Mike Molaro If Hopewell Valley Central High School boys lacrosse coach Rob Siris had to pinpoint one major challenge facing his young squad, it would probably be the inconsistency in its play. "We are having trouble putting two good games back-to-back," said Siris, who has done a superb job in turning things…
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Day commemorates teachers’ contributions
To the editor May 4 is National Teacher Day! Together our teachers are making great public schools for every child in the Manville School District. Teachers in Manville and in communities across the nation will be in the spotlight on Tuesday, May 4, as students, parents, school administrators and the general public learn how our…
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Sewer violators in Princeton Farms, Hopewell Hunt could get amnesty
Under the proposed ordinance,scheduled for a public hearing and adoption vote May 10, the Township Committee has the power to pass a resolution authorizing a general amnesty, up to 60 days long, under which owners of properties specified in the resolution could not be penalized for violations of certain sections of the township sewer code.…
