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  • Staff can set dress code standard

    To the editor By:    Earlier in the school year, HHS implemented a new, stricter dress code for students. A great number of the students strongly disliked the new dress code, either because of receiving demerits or felt as thought it was a "damper" on their personal freedom.    I can understand that no school should tolerate…

  • Budget includes no municipal tax

    New Hanover Township Committee announce that property owners are again exempt from paying a municipal tax. NEW HANOVER — The Township Committee introduced its 2004 budget Monday, and officials announced again that property owners would not have to pay a municipal tax this year.    Appropriations total $2,980,972 for 2004, according to Township Clerk/Administrator Geoffrey Urbanik.…

  • Fence ordinance will allow construction in easements

    Mansfield Township Committee votes to allow residents to obtain licensing agreement to build fences. By: Eve Collins    MANSFIELD – Having won the right to build fences in buffer, landscape and shade tree easements on their property in July 2003, residents now can obtain the licensing agreement required by the township to construct them.    The Township…

  • EDITORIAL: Public awaits Greenstein’s Route 92 stand

    EDITORIAL: Republicans took stand on toll road, now it is her trun.    Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein has had plenty of time to make up her mind about Route 92.    Ms. Greenstein, a Democrat who represents South Brunswick in the Assembly, has had a long and intimate involvement with the proposed toll road that predates her election…

  • Rider hosts arts and music festival

    Annual township event set for Saturday. By: Lea Kahn    Artists and musicians — most of them from Lawrence — will take center stage Saturday at Rider University at the third annual Lawrence Arts and Music Festival, co-sponsored by the township and the college.    The festival, which is free, runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.…

  • HHS club’s members becoming high-Steppaz

    Drill and pep club moving forward and ready to challenge in competitions By:Marnie Kunz    Students of all backgrounds have been stepping, clapping and tapping their way into the spotlight in what is arguably Hillsborough High School’s most diverse student group.    The students, dubbed the "Steppaz," are the first HHS Drill and Pep Club. The 22…

  • PERCEPTIONS: Baseball OK after A-Rod trade

    PERCEPTIONS by Steve Feitl: With all stars in eight of nine positions, the Yankees have become a necessary evil in baseball. By: Steve Feitl    Darth Vader and the 1980 Soviet Olympic ice hockey team have something in common. And no, it’s not that they both wear helmets.    But I’ll get back to that trivia point…

  • Community Calendar

    Academy Theatre    Friday, Feb. 20 through Sunday, Feb. 22 — "A Night In Camelot: An Immersion Theatre Experience" at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $40 and include dinner and the show.    The Academy Theatre is located at 146 Route 130, Bordentown. Call 291-9000 or visit www.theacademytheatre.com…

  • Dorothy White

       Dorothy M. Fraser White, 71, of Erial, formerly of Kendall Park, died Wednesday, Feb. 11.    She was a registered nurse for 38 years, and retired from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. She was a member of the St. Edwards Church and Rosary Society in Pine Hill.    She is survived by her sons…