Category: archives
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
For the week of Aug. 29. By: Peer program is tops To the editor: The Lawrence High School Peer Leadership Weekend orientation for incoming freshmen each summer should be a national model. Thanks so much to the LHS student peer leaders for the excellent weekend of guidance and friendship and teaching/mentoring and fun accorded the…
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Color Me Happy
A trip to the Crayola Factory in Easton, Pa., can bring out the kid in everyone. By: Jillian Kalonick When Binney & Smith gave tours at its manufacturing facility in the 1980s and early ’90s, more than 20,000 people visited the factory each year. I was one of them, but rather than make the trek…
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Superintendent prepares for start of his final year
Sam Stewart looks back on his decade with the district By: Nick D’Amore This school year will be a busy one for the district, and trying to find a replacement for Superintendent Sam Stewart will top the list. Dr. Stewart will be retiring at the end of the school year, after a decade of service…
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EDITORIAL: School time, and the livin’ gets easier
Vacation’s over for the kids, but it’s just starting for the parents Its time to put away the swimsuits, head to the nearest store for school supplies and try to remember how to set the alarm clock. Sorry kids, summer vacation is over. But, it may just be starting for your parents. For students, heading…
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The Last Picture Show
In Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, memories can be stirred up or formed anew at Shankweiler’s Drive-In. By: Jim Boyle It’s difficult but not impossible to feel nostalgic for fads that were popular before you were born. As someone in my mid 20s, the only real movie theater memories I have involve loud,…
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CANDIDATE’S CORNER: Working to stabilize taxes
Dave Fried is a Republican running for Washington Township Committee. He currently is on the committee and serves as mayor. By: Dave Fried I was surprised to read a candidate’s column in this newspaper in which I was actually criticized for doing what I can to ensure the Washington Township schools continue to provide the…
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Why did school boardask the 2001 football question?
GUEST OPINION By Sally Turner and Bill Hills We would like to explain why the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education asked for extra funds to start a football program in the first place. In April 2001, the voters of Hopewell Valley were asked a "second question" as part of the yearly budget to approve…
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Dancers tell feds they were coerced
U.S. attorney’s office charges trio with trafficking, forced labor By:Alec Moore Federal investigators may provide some of the ammunition local officials can use to close Frank’s Chicken House, the infamous Washington Avenue strip club that many residents and officials have seen as a bane in the community. According to an indictment issued by the office…
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Ethel Cimato
HILLSBOROUGH Ethel V. Cimato, 92, died Saturday, Aug. 17, in Foothill Acres Nursing Home, Hillsborough. Born in Brooklyn, she lived in Scotch Plains before moving to Hillsborough in 1984. Mrs. Cimato was telephone operator for 25 years with the former AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill. Her husband, Frank Cimato Sr., died in 2000;…
