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School boards approve budgets for vote
Public hearings held on proposed 2004-2005 spending plans. By: Eve Collins and Scott Morgan Area school districts held public hearings on their proposed 2004-2005 budgets this week and virtually all were approved without changes. The spending plans will now go to voters on April 20 when school elections are held. Bordentown Regional School District was…
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Mustangs feature new mix on baseball diamond
Gryzeski, Anderson, Liszczak return as leaders By: Rudy Brandl This year’s Manville High baseball team will feature a mix of veterans and newcomers. The main task for 11th-year skipper Steve Venuto will be to mold the old and the new into a successful unit. Manville graduated about half of last year’s 13-4 club that…
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School phone system ready for installation
Work will be done over spring break week. By: Lea Kahn The long-awaited new telephone system in the Lawrence Township public school system is scheduled to be installed next week over the spring break, according to school district officials. But the new telephones along with new telephone numbers won’t be ready for use…
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Locals hope trucks still avoid Route 206
Court ruling won’t affect Police Department efforts. By: Steve Feitl Proponents of a truck ban on Route 206 in Lawrence remain undaunted, despite a federal judge’s ruling against state restrictions last week. Lawrence Police Department officials say their targeting of unsafe trucks on the state highway is unaffected by the decision, and members of a…
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For the April 1 issue
Mary E. Brower, Jack B. Zeilsdorff Sr., Jennie Marfino Frascella, Barbara A. Chambers, August W. Peters. Mary E. Brower WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP Mary E. Brower, 86, died March 24 in Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton. Born in Trenton, Ms. Brower was a longtime resident of Robbinsville. She was formerly employed…
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School budget OK’d
$14.3 million plan now goes to voters By:John Patten If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Superintendent of Schools Donald Burkhardt had a lot to say with his budget presentation at the Board of Education meeting, Monday. Swapping pictures of improvements to the schools and ongoing projects for the usual charts and graphs…
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April 1, 4:55 p.m.: The hypocrisy of Condoleeza Rice
Rice, like all Bush advisors, is protecting the president’s re-election prospects first and foremost. By: Hank Kalet Here is a pretty strong editorial from the New York Times on the about-face by the Bush folks on letting Condoleeza Rice testify before the 9/11 commission. The key to the editorial and to the discussion of…
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Elvira Piccotti
MANVILLE Elvira Piccotti died Thursday, March 25, at her daughter’s home in Hillsborough. She was 85. Born in Scranton, Pa., she lived in Manville for the past 46 years. Mrs. Piccotti worked as a seamstress for Bilt Rite and Franbe of Manville and LCJ of Raritan for many years. She was a communicant of…
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School board hopefuls offer varied experiences, backgrounds
School board candidate questionnaires Editor’s note: This week, we introduce readers to the candidates for the Hillsborough Board of Education. We asked the candidates to provide biographical information to highlight the skills and experience they offer to the board. Next week, we’ll find out what the candidates’ goals are, if elected. Incumbents are indicated by…
