Category: archives
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Towns moves to buy daycare site
Town approves the purchase of land on Kingston Lane, slated to be a daycare facility By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi The Township Council has approved the purchase of a 1.15-acre parcel on Kingston Lane for $410,000, which could prevent construction of a proposed daycare facility. The council voted 4-1 Tuesday to buy the parcel, which is…
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In search of Master Tuggy’s Princess
SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By Heather Lovett Not long ago I was visiting my older son in New York City, and as we headed downtown from his apartment to a museum, I paused, as I often do, at one of those tiny markets on Broadway that display buckets of cut flowers on the sidewalk. As I…
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DISPATCHES: More questions than answers on Iraq
DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Not sure if we should invade Iraq, but change is needed I can hear the war drums beating. And they’re getting louder by the day. Now it only seems a matter of when. It is no secret that the Bush administration is considering a military strike against Iraq designed to remove…
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OBITUARIES, Aug. 16, 2002
Anuita M. Blanc, Maruice A. Mather, John D. Carlson, Karl H. Behr, John L. Scott, George E. Cumberbatch, Raymond K. Ingebrand. Anuita M. Blanc Realtor, rights activist PHILADELPHIA Anuita Margolis Blanc died Saturday of complications from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). She was 71. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she settled with her husband…
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Letters to the editor, Aug. 15, 2002
Time for resolution! To the editor: Having watched the debate over football in our school district from the sidelines, I believe that some resolution to this issue is vital. If this division in our township is not healed, our school district, schools and children will suffer. It is time to find that resolution …
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Getting to know you
Incoming freshmen from Washington and Lawrence townships prepare to start at Lawrence High School. By: Sarah Winkelman Driven by the urge to become acquainted with their future classmates, almost half of Lawrence High School’s incoming freshmen class voluntarily spent last weekend at an orientation program. Of the 375 students to enter LHS next month as…
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Cleanup at base under way
Long-awaited $9.6-million effort to clear contaminated soil starts at McGuire. By: Scott Morgan McGUIRE AFB Forty-two years and two months after a fire destroyed an Air Force missile shelter, military and civilian crews are cleaning out the contaminated soil. On June 7, 1960, a fire demolished BOMARC Missile Shelter 204 and cracked the shell…
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Ecumenical Coalition hopesto build Habitat house in Valley
Although the PEC is leaning toward the idea of building a new home, it could decide to renovate an existing structure instead By John Tredrea The Pennington Ecumenical Coalition (PEC) says it wants to work with Habitat for Humanity to build or rehabilitate an affordable home for a low-income family to buy in the Pennington…
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THE STATE WE’RE IN: Delaware Bayshore is special
THE STATE WE’RE IN by Michele S. Byers: Delaware Bayshore did not see construction until the late ’90s; it should be preserved! Conservation groups like to talk about preserving New Jersey’s "special places." But sometimes we have to explain just what it is that makes New Jersey’s special places so distinctive. For the next several…
