Category: archives
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Color guard team has the right stuff
By: Nick D’Amore The South Brunswick High School Color Guard teams are halfway to their goal of being in another international championship competition this year. The varsity team has won two of the regional qualifying contests in Connecticut and Maryland. They are heading to Boston for the third competition and to Pennsylvania on March 23…
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Township Committee adoptsfire budget with no cuts
The committee, which could have cut the budget, was required by state law to review and cast an adoption vote on it. The vote to leave the budget intact was unanimous By: John Tredrea The $1,762,562 Hopewell Township fire district budget that was defeated at the polls Feb. 16 was adopted with no cuts by…
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Arthur Trainor
HILLSBOROUGH Arthur Trainor died Sunday, March 10, in Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield. He was 74. Born and raised in Jamaica, N.Y., he moved to Hillsborough many years ago. For many years he worked for Brother International, Merrill Lynch, AEG and Thomas and Betts designing and installing computer systems before owning and operating…
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St. Patrick’s Day events planned for township
Church and V.F.W. to hold events Saturday By: Lea Kahn When township resident Bill O’Neal sang for his supper on St. Patrick’s Day at the Slackwood Presbyterian Church last year, the goal was to raise money for the Habitat for Humanity. This year, the church and the musician have joined forces to raise money for…
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Local tap dancers join show
Some of the members of the Youth Tap Ensemble, "Kids On Tap," will be performing at the Brook Arts Center Vaudeville Cabaret shows this weekend and next . The group is directed by Kathleen Cirioli, and works to promote and preserve the art of tap dancing. Ms. Cirioli accomplishes this by training young dancers in…
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Earn your degree in land conservation
The State We’re In By: Michelle S. Byers Have you ever seen a "for sale" sign go up on a patch of woods or farmland in your hometown and wondered if something could be done to stop it from being overrun with houses? Maybe you had read about a group of everyday citizens who joined…
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There are public worksand then there are public works
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By: John Tredrea "The child is father to the man." Wordsworth. Every once in a while you hear a song or story that makes you tell yourself: "That one kind of says it all, doesn’t it?" I heard one like that at the Pennington Council meeting March 4. The council room was filled…
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Town appearsan easy ‘mark’
To the editor Your recent front page article (Feb.14, 2002) regarding Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bibeau’s desire to develop the historic Owsik Home on Wertsville Road may have left the reader with many inaccurate impressions. The statement that "some residents have appealed to the Township Committee to purchase land for open space" is simply erroneous.…
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Officer sues over La report
Says county prosecutor violated privacy rights By: Brian Shappell South Brunswick police Lt. Raymond Hayducka has filed a lawsuit against Middlesex County Prosecutor Glenn Berman and Assistant Prosecutor Ernest Bergman alleging they illegally released information about a grand jury report in connection with a shooting in the township. The suit alleges that the information was…
