Category: archives
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Police Blotter
Lambertville Erin McCallum, 31, of Flemington was charged with drunken driving Dec. 15 at 1:18 a.m. Police said the driver crossed over the solid yellow no passing lines in the area of Route 29 and Church street. The vehicle came to a stop near Cherry Street. He also was charged with careless driving and released…
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Hopewell girls fight injuries, learning process
Girls Basketball By: Matt Nalbone The regular season has begun for the girls basketball team from Hopewell Valley, but it might not be off to the start the Lady Bulldogs wanted. A very young team had a few big challenges right off the bat, but it seems like the worst is over. The season began…
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Letters to the editor, Dec. 27, 2001
Library group makes $4,000! To the editor: The Holiday Open House sponsored by the Friends of Pennington Library on Dec. 1 was an outstanding success. Proceeds from the tour of Sharon and James Maida’s beautiful home on Independence Way and from the Silent Auction totaled over $4,000. We thank the following businesses for so…
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Celestial Sounds
Janet Jackson Witman will play the Celtic harp along with flutist Mary Kay Mann as part of the Princeton Public Library’s Unquiet Fridays series. By: Susan Van Dongen Waiting for a turn in the dentist’s chair is almost as much of an ordeal as the appointment itself. Only the most stalwart are immune to the…
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Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week
Buono adjusting to new role By: Justin Feil When Giovanna Buono looks around on the basketball court, there aren’t a lot of familiar faces. A starter the last two seasons for a veteran West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ squad, Buono is learning a different role this season. "I knew I had to step it…
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State approves South’s $12 million bond referendum
The referendum will ask voters whether they want to spend the money to renovate the school and add a new science and technology wing. By: Carl Reader WEST AMWELL Superintendent Cheryl Simone told the South Hunterdon Board of Education Dec. 20 the state had approved its application for the new bond referendum that tentatively…
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TANGENTS: Visions of hate, and sugarplums
TANGENTS By: John Saccenti I hate it when some one cuts me off. I hate it even more when that person slows down in front of me to make a turn. I also hate waiting. I’ve been known to go hungry rather than wait in line at a fast-food restaurant. We all have things we…
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Middle school delinquents expelled
By:Krzysztof Scibiorski Three of the four teens who pleaded guilty to vandalizing the Hillsborough Middle School have been expelled from the district, but the school district still must pay educational expenses for some of the students. At its Dec. 17 meeting, the Board of Education followed up on its promise to exact the strictest possible…
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Steven Harper
TRENTON Steven Troy Harper, 38, died Saturday, Dec. 22, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in New York City, he was a longtime Trenton resident. He attended Trenton public schools and had been a member of Jerusalem Baptist Church and Galilee Baptist Church. He is survived by his mother and stepfather,…
