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  • Plumsted gets project estimate

    Total cost of proposal for new elementary school, district renovations/additions set at $18.51 million. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — The school board on Monday approved the architectural cost estimates for proposed renovations and construction in the district.    District officials have proposed construction of a 45,000-square-foot primary school, renovations to New Egypt Elementary School and the…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING UPDATE

    At its Dec. 5 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a use variance that will enable a Mt. Rose architect to move his in-home business to another nearby building By: Marianne Hooker    At its Dec. 5 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a use variance that will enable a…

  • Essence of Faces

    Yardley, Pa., painter Marie Finn has assembled a wide variety of portraits for a show in Lambertville. By: Jodi Thompson "Generations Past" by Albert Bross Jr.    Pat Croce’s smile is familiar from his efforts as former team president of the Philadelphia Sixers and his unbridled enthusiasm for wiring all of the Delaware Valley with Comcast…

  • Another Nasdeo starts to make his mark

    By: Ken Weingartner    Garrett Nasdeo knows it’s better to give than to receive — and it has nothing to do with being in the holiday spirit.    Last season as a freshman, Nasdeo took some lumps for the South Brunswick High wrestling team. If his performance Saturday is any indication, he’s ready to deliver the punishment…

  • ‘A Beautiful Mind’

    The quirks of a disturbed Nobel Prize winner come to the screen in this biographical film.   [PG-13] By: Kam Williams    In 1994, mathematician John Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his monumental discovery and development of Game Theory during a tenure, rather early in life, at Princeton University.    The young graduate student’s mathematical…

  • Parker’s boys play well in opening loss

    The past, present and future were all on display during the AHS basketball game against Trenton. By: Kyle Moylan    The past, present and future were all on display during the Allentown High School boys’ basketball team’s 84-66 opening night loss to Trenton this past Friday.    They all made a strong impression.    For starters was the…

  • Molly, Marguerite and Marge

    The paintings of Molly Merlino, Mar­guerite Doernbach and Marge Chavooshian can be seen at once at Ellarslie Museum in Trenton. By: Susan Van Dongen The 3 M’s    Paintings by three area artists hang on the walls of the Ellarslie Museum, all thoughtful, well-traveled women, all from about the same generation. But their works are so…

  • Police decorating officeswith students’ holiday gift

    Project began as a tribute to Port Authority workers lost in Sept. 11 terorist attacks By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    Second-graders at Woods Road School showed their appreciation for Hillsborough’s police officers by creating a Christmas tree display for police headquarters.    The display, a Christmas tree made out of the traced hand-prints of all of the class members,…

  • Trash to be picked up Saturday instead of Tuesday

    Trash collection was moved back because the usual pick-up day is Tuesday, Christmas Day.    Garbage collection will be Saturday, Dec. 22, this week instead of Tuesday, Christmas Day, according to the township trash schedule.