Category: archives
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Millstone Valley flood study begun
Officials look for lessons from Tropical Storm Floyd By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY After Tropical Storm Floyd dumped 9 inches of rain on central New Jersey in September 1999, turning roads into rivers and some living rooms into lakes, a network of federal, state and local agencies banded together to ask: How can we prevent…
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Junk Man
Bordentown sculptor Raymon Taylor turns scrap metal into works of art. By: Susan Van Dongen On the basement walls of a colonial house in Bordentown, you can still see scorch marks from a fiery British raid that took place during the Revolutionary War. A different kind of flame blazes from the hands of the current…
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Charting a new course
Chamber of Commerce should be the ‘heart’ of the community, says the organization’s new chairman. By: Susan Briggs The Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton Area (CCPA) should be the ultimate information clearinghouse for residents and visitors to this region, said David Holmes, the new CCPA chairman, and with the help of the CCPA’s members,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
