Category: archives
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Savino backs up top ranking at county meet
LHS sophomore captures 125-pouind county title By: Mike Molaro Winning a county wrestling championship is quite an accomplishment. Doing it in the manner that Mark Savino demonstrated at last weekend’s Mercer County Wrestling Tournament at Trenton High School is something more. The Lawrence High School sophomore captured the 125-pound individual title and showed those in…
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Pennington Council must decidefuture of borough’s trash collection
Mayor Jim Loper, Councilwoman Liz Muoio and other council members stressed they would like as much input from borough residents and merchants as possible on the issue of trash privatization By: John Tredrea Pennington will have to make its mind up soon on whether it wants to privatize trash collection, which has been done by…
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Don’t the police haveenough now to keep them busy?
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By: Ruth Luse Commuting to and from work gives me plenty of time to listen to the radio. Much of what I hear goes in "one ear and out the other." But over the past few days, I have heard considerable comment about Assembly Bill 232, which "imposes penalty for leaving a child…
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Letters to the editor
For the week of February 7. By: Government spending was out of control To the editor: The editorial piece "Budget crisis trickles down to local level" takes unfair and cheap shots at both Gov. McGreevey and former President Ronald Reagan. I didn’t vote for McGreevey but I find myself having to defend him. In the…
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Writers Among Us
Nancy Hasty’s solo play Florida Girls is a journey through her childhood. She plays more than a dozen characters, all based on real people. The play is part of the Passage Theatre’s 2nd Annual Solo Flights Festival. By: Susan Van Dongen Florida Girls, by Nancy Hasty (above), is a two-hour, multi-character trek through the playwright’s…
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Subtle Beauty
Quietude and regeneration are what winter hikers will find at the Watershed in Hopewell. By: Susan Van Dongen The overprotective mother in me wants to stop naturalist Rick Lear from eating that tiny wild berry, and I’m not even a mother. All I can picture is the poor man dying right in front of me,…
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New club aiming to serve school, community
EarlyAct program begins first year at Sharon Elementary School in Washington Township. By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON Teaching children at an early age the importance of community service. That’s what EarlyAct aims to do. Sharon School, on Sharon Road in the township, this year started an EarlyAct club. EarlyAct, a Rotary-sponsored service program, helps elementary…
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Blooms from the Cold Earth
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve hosts a winter walk. By: Jodi Thompson Staff photo by Jodi Thompson Above, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve Education Coordinator Gabrielle Sivitz. Below, the evergreen Christmas fern peeks from beneath fallen leaves and shrubs. Staff photo by Jodi Thompson Duckweed is yet another humbly tagged plant. Many people mistake the smallest flowering…
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Group returns to intermediate school plan
New proposal keeps school districts contiguous By:Krzysztof Scibiorski Will moving 650 kids to create an intermediate school be more popular than moving 152 kids and not having a fifth- and sixth-grade school? That’s the question that the district leaders must be asking themselves as they await the public presentation of the Redistricting Committee’s new recommendation…
