Category: archives
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KIDS AND COMMUNITY: Tempering the trauma of divorce with group programs
By: Judy Shepps Battle Divorce is an equal opportunity traumatizer. I don’t know of anyone who enters into matrimony intending anything but lifelong union. Yet it is estimated that half of all first marriages will result in an emotionally painful and financially burdensome separation and/or divorce. Many of these broken relationships involve children. About 1.5…
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DEXA screening urged for osteoporosis
HEALTH MATTERS By: Dr. Timothy Howard Eight million women and two million men in the United States suffer from osteoporosis. One in two women and one in eight men over the age of 50 will have an osteoporotic fracture (broken bone) in her or his lifetime. A woman’s lifetime risk of having an osteoporotic fracture…
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Witmer still looking to leave
Schools Superintendent David Witmer is a finalist for a position in another district — again. By: Chris Karmiol He has not jumped ship yet, but David Witmer, chief school administrator of the East Windsor Regional School District, is one of two finalists for the position of superintendent of the Middletown Township School District in…
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Jamesburg parents say school aid system unfair
About two dozen trek to Trenton to protest funding at Statehouse. By: Al Wicklund JAMESBURG A demonstration by parents of Jamesburg school students could be a prelude to other demonstrations and possibly participation by other New Jersey school districts. More than 30 Jamesburg parents and supporters carrying signs picketed in front of the Statehouse…
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Institute for Advanced Study appoints 3 new trustees
The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed three new members to its board of trustees. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist and politician, has been president of Brazil since 1995, and will serve through 2002. His early career was as an academic sociologist. An advocate of democratic reform, and opponent of the military dictatorship that ruled…
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PU, Morrison in strange days as contenders
Tigers host Penn in key Ivy clash By: Justin Feil It’s unlikely that the University of Pennsylvania football team won’t pay close attention to Blair Morrison on Saturday. And that’s saying a lot about Princeton’s usual back-up wide receiver. Last Saturday, however, Morrison more than filled in for injured wide receiver B.J. Szymanski. The junior…
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Five paces, turn … and fire
University students revive a tradition of honor, with dose of levity By: Jeff Milgram Wednesday dawned cold and damp, and at high noon well, to be honest, more like 12:50 p.m. the lawn in front of Terrace Club was a good place for dying. Or, for that matter, getting splashed with a paintball…
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MHS boys eye CJ II soccer play
By: Carolyn M. Hartko With the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament over for the Monroe Township High School boys’ varsity soccer team, all efforts are now focused on the Central Jersey Group II flight of the state tournament. The second-seeded Falcons earned a first round ‘bye, so they will host the winner of (10) Somerville at…
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Cranbury committee mulls new firetruck
By: Casha Caponegro The Township Committee began to take steps on Monday that could mean buying a new ladder truck for the Cranbury Volunteer Fire Company. It passed a resolution that amends the township’s 2002 capital budget to authorize the issuing of bonds to pay for a new fire truck, if the committee chooses to…
