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  • State to monitor district special education program

    By: Lea Kahn    School district officials expect to meet with three state Department of Education monitors next week for a routine review of the district’s special education program.    The trio plans to spend Monday and Tuesday in four of the seven schools, said Bruce McGraw, assistant superintendent for curriculum. Three monitors will spend the day…

  • BACK PORCH

    Ladies and gentelman, our new social editor By: Melissa Morgan    Drumroll please.    Nope, this is not a feeble attempt to stir up a little fanfare for my very first column. If you would like to applaud or even break out the percussion instruments to celebrate, please be my guest, but I’m really not looking for…

  • School board to unveil new SBHS grouping

    New setup would organize students into four 9-12 ‘schools’ within the high school. By: Nick D’Amore    Students at South Brunswick High School may be arranged differently starting in September 2003.    The new setup would organize students into four 9-12 "schools" within the high school. The students would be grouped at random, not based on grade…

  • Pennington officials join others who seek state tax reform

    Hopewell Borough Council, Valley school board adopt similar resolutions. By: John Tredrea    Pennington Borough Council voted unanimously Monday night to request the State of New Jersey to convene a Constitutional Conventional to reform the property tax system.    Hopewell Borough Council, the governments of Washington, Hamilton and West Windsor townships and the Hopewell Valley Regional Board…

  • Edition of June 6, 2002

    Harry Heher Jr.    Harry Heher Jr., 74, died Monday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania following a brief illness. Born in Trenton, he lived on Province Line Road in Lawrence before moving to Pennington in 1995.    An attorney in private practice for much of his career, he specialized in corporate law and litigation…

  • Shah’s hopes dashed at state tennis tourney

    By: Ken Weingartner    Shangril Shah knew the competition would be tough at the NJSIAA Singles Tournament, but even with that knowledge, he might have underestimated the level of play.    A sophomore at South Brunswick High, Shah lost 6-2, 6-2 to Alan Landy of West Essex in the tourney’s opening round Saturday at Veterans Park in…

  • Road concerns blocking Town Center plans

    Washington Township mayor says Mercer County engineer’s office is ‘stonewalling.’ By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Local officials are concerned Mercer County’s plans for Robbinsville-Edinburg Road (Route 526) will wreak havoc with the township’s hopes for Town Center.    In a move Mayor Dave Fried called "stonewalling," the county engineer’s office — according to township officials —…

  • Armenante proposal gets approval

    Property at 12 N. Main St. in Allentown now a commercial/residential lot. By: Mark Moffa    ALLENTOWN — The borough’s Planning Board this week unanimously approved Frank and Margaret Armenante’s plans to subdivide their property at 12 N. Main St.    The former Business District lot, home of the Malsbury & Armenante law firm, is now a…

  • Fithen steps down as softball coach

    Plans to spend more time with family By: Steve Feitl    The Lawrence High School softball team may have lost its final regular-season game on May 30, but the focus was clearly more on the departure of its seven-year head coach Keith Fithen.    Fithen informed the team the day before that the clash with West Windsor-Plainsboro…