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  • Towns struggling despite more aid

    State municipal aid figures are broken down for area towns. By: Lauren Burgoon and Sarah Winkelman    Last week the state announced municipal aid figures for 2004-05. Towns in The Messenger-Press coverage area all saw increases, many of them for the first time in years. The following is a breakdown of aid figures by municipality. Washington…

  • Car seat safety checks offered in Montgomery

       MONTGOMERY—The Blawenburg Village Preschool and the Montgomery Township Police Department will host a free car-seat safety inspection 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.    The event will be held at the Blawenburg Village Preschool on Route 518 near the intersection of The Great Road (Route 601).    Certified car-seat safety technicians will check car seats for proper…

  • A Face in the Crowd

    Colin Quinn will get a chance to air out his thoughts on today’s issues when he peforms at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick March 19-20. By: Jim Boyle "I don’t want to be taken that seriously," says Colin Quinn, host of Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. "If anybody looked at me and…

  • District starts third round of bids for high school

    Bordentown Regional School District officials are confident that third round of bids will bring them closer to proposed $43 million budget. By: Eve Collins    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – Officials with the Bordentown Regional School District are optimistic that the third round of bids for the new high school will come in closer to the $43 million…

  • EDITORIAL: Grade schools by becoming part of them

    EDITORIAL: Don’t judge schools by State School Report Cards, get involved.    It’s that time of year again, time for the state to grade local schools.    But don’t get too worked up. The report cards issued by the state, while somewhat useful, tend to try to hard to simplify what happens within each school building, to…

  • Theodore Margolies

       Theodore Margolies, 84, died Sunday, March 7, at home.    Born in the Bronx, N.Y., he lived in Kendall Park for many years before moving to Hamilton Township two-and-a-half years ago. Prior to retiring in 1995, he was a chemist and regional head for the Occupational and Safety Hazard Administration OSHA in Bellmawr, where he worked…

  • Raymond McGinn

       MANVILLE — Raymond D. McGinn died Saturday, March 6, at Somerset MedicalCenter in Somerville. He was 70.    He was born in Centralia, Pa., and was a resident of Manville for the past 41 years.    He served in the United States Army.    Mr. McGinn was a millwright for 29 years at the Johns-Manville Corp. in Manville.…

  • Zagoreos remembers his MCCC roots

    Lawrence resident honored as Alumnus of the Year By: Lea Kahn    Hanging on the wall at Steven Zagoreos’ Sunset Road home are two diplomas — one from Trenton Junior College, now known as Mercer County Community College, and one from Ohio Northern University.    The TJC diploma gained the place of honor above the ONU diploma…

  • Rider improvements on planning agenda

    Board meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday By: Lea Kahn    An expansion plan that calls for a new student recreation center and additions and renovations to two dormitories at Rider University tops the Planning Board’s agenda for its Monday night meeting.    The Planning Board, which meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Lower Level Conference Room at…