Category: archives

  • South football squad has ‘double’ practice session to rebuild team

    By: Jeremy Wang-Iverson    WEST AMWELL — By the time school starts next week, the South Hunterdon football team already will be well into the swing of things.    It spent a week in July going to Lehigh Football Camp where it reviewed the playbook and played light scrimmages against other teams.    Practices began in West Amwell…

  • eJNJ employees volunteer for Habitat

    Office workers put down their laptops and picked up sickles to clear years of overgrowth and rubbish from a lot that will house a new three-bedroom home. By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — When eJNJ employees, a newly formed subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, agreed to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, they were told they would…

  • Additions, changes made to Delaware Elementary School

    By: Laura Pelner    DELAWARE — When middle school students return next week, they’re going to see a lot of additions and changes to the buildings they once knew.    Summer construction work has added new science, math, world language, art and physical education facilities, among other renovations.    Superintendent James Moryan said the district has added two…

  • Costly cleanup hits schools after new mold infiltration

    Heat wave and power outage affect two Montgomery elementary schools By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Nearly one year after dangerous levels of mold delayed the opening of Orchard Hill Elementary School by a week, school district officials have found themselves battling the same problem.    While no delay in school openings is expected, the district is…

  • All teachers returning to LPS

    By: Laura Pelner    LAMBERTVILLE — All tenured teaching staff at Lambertville Public School were retained and are returning to work this year despite concern in late February that some teachers might be let go.    Superintendent Richard Wiener said all the tenured staff members stayed, and no new teachers were hired for the coming school year.…

  • Solebury School to start Sept. 6

       SOLEBURY —Solebury School will begin classes Thursday, Sept. 6, at 8 a.m. with nearly 200 day and boarding students attending this fall.    Established in 1925, Solebury is a college preparatory school for students in grades 7-12 and a post-graduate year. It is situated on a 100-acre campus along Phillips Mill Road.    New boarding students will…

  • 2,500+ prepare to return to school

    New buildings, teachers and academic programs await students in the Lambertville-New Hope area, including a new playground at West Amwell Elementary School and a $18.8 bond referendum at South Hunterdon Regional High School. By: Mae Rhine    More than 2,500 local students will return to school Sept. 5, facing a myriad of building projects, new teachers…

  • South students have new math, business programs

    By: Jeremy Wang-Iverson    WEST AMWELL — South Hunterdon’s $18.8 million bond referendum will go before voters in just under a month, asking for their tax dollars to massively overhaul the school, add a performing arts facility and another gymnasium.    Sept. 25, voters will choose as many or as few of the proposals, which could receive…

  • Born of Fire

    Raku, a 16th century Japanese glazing technique, renders metallic rainbow effects on pottery. Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsman Tyler State Craft Center in Richboro offers eight-week sessions teaching the ancient method. By: Jodi Thompson Founded by Raku Chojiro in 16th century Japan and passed down through generations of potters, traditional Raku is hand-formed and glazed in…