Category: archives
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Residents, students at odds over ‘a good night’s sleep’
Police have been called, but found no problems. By: Lea Kahn Ask Linda Simmins and Carol Dickson what they want, and they’ll say, "A good night’s sleep." But sleep doesn’t always come and not because they are insomniacs. Rather, they claim they cannot get eight straight hours of shut-eye because of their neighbors at…
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Deeper Well
Ken Lelen’s vintage music harkens back to an era when the pace was slower, and when music could be heard without distraction. By: Susan Van Dongen The instruments are old, the songs are even older, but the singer is anything but old-fashioned. Ken Lelen is certainly not a misty-eyed, free-spirited troubadour when it comes to…
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Letter: Rule change bad for districts
To the editor: A union-backed bill that would reduce the power of school boards to effectively represent the public in labor negotiations is quietly moving through the Legislature. The legislation, A-3419/S-2398, would take away a board’s ability to implement its last best contract offer when negotiations are fully exhausted. Although implementation is very rare,…
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Football season could begin again without state ruling
EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse It has been nearly a year since local football foes delivered a petition to the state Department of Education’s Division of Controversies and Disputes. The petition finally was the focus May 27 of a hearing before Judge Joseph F. Martone of the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), to which it was…
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Stephen Poandl Sr.
Stephen A. Poandl Sr., 85, of Beaver Dam, Ky., died Saturday, May 31, at Owensboro Mercy Health System. He was born in Manhattan, N.Y., and was a former resident of Monmouth Junction. He was a supervisor for Columbian Carbon before retiring. He was a member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Beaver Dam. An Army…
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Deeper Well
Ken Lelen’s vintage music harkens back to an era when the pace was slower, and when music could be heard without distraction. By: Susan Van Dongen The instruments are old, the songs are even older, but the singer is anything but old-fashioned. Ken Lelen is certainly not a misty-eyed, free-spirited troubadour when it comes to…
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Plugged leaks save Pennington 20,000 gallons of water a day
Borough crews, in tandem with a firm specializing in leak detection, found and plugged three leaks in the water system last month. By John Tredrea Pennington’s ongoing program of plugging leaks in its public water system produced good results last month, borough Councilman David Garber said during Monday night’s council meeting. Mr. Garber said borough…
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Editorial: BGIA contract is a waste of tax money
EDITORIAL: The plan to keep BGIA throws important tax dollars out the window. The Township Council should have cut its losses Tuesday. Instead, it has agreed to keep BGIA as its insurance broker at least through the end of the year a move we find wasteful and unnecessary paying it $95,000 for 2003…
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June 5, 6:25 p.m.: Dispatches
Read this week’s Dispatches. By: Hank Kalet Read this week’s Dispatches on media consolidation.
