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  • Voters to decide on art, languages

    Ballot to have two special questions By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — Township voters will determine whether art and world languages will be kept in the curriculum at Chesterfield Township Elementary School when they cast their votes on the school budget next month.    In addition to voting on the $2.78 million base budget, residents will be…

  • New area churches to hold joint Easter service Sunday

    Service to be held at 72 Hogback Road By:David Koch    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Two churches new to the Bordentown area will hold a combined Easter service this weekend with a message of hope and a celebration of diversity.    The Victory Worship Center and Mount Moriah Ministries will hold a joint Easter service at 10:30 a.m.…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 03/28

    From the March 28 edition of the Register-News By: Board president thanks community To the editor:     I would like to thank the many community members responsible for the passing of the March 12 school referendum.    The passing of the referendum was a tribute to the efforts of the Citizen Task Force, the Board of…

  • New businesses finding a good home here

    Central New Jersey proves a good location for the ethnic market. By: Jon Steele    If the three keys to success in business are "location, location and location," then Central Jersey is a good location for businesses serving the ethnic market and it’s getting better all the time.    For example, the Hispanic portion of Mercer County’s…

  • East Windsor grocery finds a niche in community

    Imported Indian foods serve a growing population. By: Chris Karmiol    EAST WINDSOR — She was personal assistant to the mayor of Bombay. He was a vegetable seller in India. Now, both American citizens, Sonya and Suehir Ketkar are supplying imported Indian foods to the growing Indian population in and around East Windsor.    "It was actually…

  • Letters

    Approved revised south budget To the editor;    Although I know your newspaper was in attendance at the March 21 meeting of the South Hunterdon Regional School board, I would like to offer my observations and opinions of that meeting.    There was a cross-section of the community there to offer their stances on the referendum to…

  • Baking for a sweet Easter, East to West

    IN THE KITCHEN by Pat Tanner:  Recipes for sweets to break the Lenten fast with ingredients symbolic of rebirth — the theme of Easter and of spring, including eggs, yeast and the very things banned during Lent. Illustration by Judy Martin    This Sunday is the date most Christians — but by no means all Christians…

  • Senior Menus

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $3.13. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, March 28 — Grape juice, eggplant rollatini,…

  • Marketers learn to compete in new arenas

    The buying power of cultural subgroups is staggering. By: George Frey    Every day the presence of the Spanish language is noted in places where it never used to be heard or seen. In grocery and retail stores, explaining goods and services and it’s now spoken widely in communities across the nation. That’s because Hispanics are…