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  • Montgomery schools offer a ‘guesstimate’ on budget

    The uncertainty of state aid has left districts treading water. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — As the March deadline to submit a school budget approaches, district administrators reluctantly released this year’s preliminary figures, emphasizing that the dearth of hard numbers from the state Department of Education made projecting a budget nearly impossible.    "These aren’t estimates,…

  • Cosmic Progression

    The Flecktones hit the road with music from a new album. By: Daniel Shearer    There can be little doubt that banjo master Béla Fleck is at the top of his game. In a recent concert with bassist, pianist and composer Edgar Meyer — a performer whose long list of genre-hopping collaborations includes work with Yo-Yo…

  • Confident Falcons can’t upset Colonia in GMCT girls basketball

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    COLONIA — The atmosphere in the Colonia High School gym on Monday evening crackled with the possibility of an upset. But cold perimeter shooting in the second half dashed the hopes of the visiting Monroe Lady Falcons as the Lady Patriots (10-11) took a 45-36 victory in the first round of…

  • ‘Foxfire’

    The latest offering at Off-Broadstreet Theatre is this lovely little memory play. By: Stuart Duncan    Bob and Julie Thick at Off-Broadstreet Theatre in Hopewell continue to astonish. Time after time, they take the gentlest, least imposing plays, heat them to exactly the proper temperature and serve them up. The appreciative audiences then devour the shows…

  • Fire leaves needy no place to live

    The tragedy of a fire Wednesday afternoon at the Bethany Chapel and Missionary Home on Stockton Street in Hightstown was compounded by the fact the mission has no fire insurance. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — The morning after, the Bethany Chapel and Missionary Home still smelled of burned wood and smoke.    On Wednesday afternoon —…

  • HHS rewards good behavior

    New Hightstown High School principal William Roesch has started a program to give out gift certificates to students who behave and work well in class. By: Chris Karmiol    Catching kids breaking the rules is par for the course at any high school and Hightstown High School is no different. But recently Hightstown High Principal William…

  • Depression in seniors: It’s a disease, not a natural condition

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Alan Axelrod, LCSW    Depression is a psychological problem experienced by as many as three out of every 100 seniors age 65 and older.    Much more than feeling sad, depression goes beyond the ordinary low moods that everyone experiences. The pervasive feeling of sadness that marks depression interferes with how seniors think, feel…

  • Suit challenges Montgomery downzoning

    Province Line Road landowner claims ordinance accomplishes nothing. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — The owner of a 25-acre spread in the southwest section of the township is mounting a legal challenge to the Planning Board’s recent downzoning of large areas of the township, part of the latest re-examination of the Master Plan adopted in December.…

  • Stuart hoops prepped for states

    Tartans take 9-2 record into ‘B’ competition By: Bob Nuse    As the Stuart Country Day School basketball team gets set to begin the state Prep B tournament, one thing is pretty obvious. The Tartans have been a good team this year against the competition they’ll be facing in the tournament.    Stuart will head into Saturday’s…