Category: archives
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Bordentown softball 12’s playing for District 12 tourney title tonight
In District 12 softball, there is absolutely no defense against the Bordentown 12-year-old all-stars’ great defense. By:Sean Moylan Bordentown threw around the leather to top Millstone-Roosevelt, 4-1, on Monday evening at Millstone. The win got the Bordentown girls back where they belong – the championship game. Bordentown also demolished Cranbury-Plainsboro, 16-0, on July 3 at…
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‘Poetry for Dummies’
‘Poetry for Dummies’ author John Timpane believes poetry makes you a better person by paying attention to your surroundings. He will crusade for the cause at the MarketFair Barnes & Noble July 17. By:Susan Van Dongen The book is called Poetry For Dummies, but the author is no dummy. Not by a long shot. Princeton…
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Valley school board ratifies two-year pact with paraprofessionals
The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education this week ratified a contract with its teachers assistants for the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 school years. The contract replaces the "teachers assistant" title with the more appropriate term "paraprofessional" and aligns the salary schedule with other Mercer County school districts. The district employs more than 60 full- and…
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Township must mark its speed humps
Letter to the editor The story you wrote about speed humps and their use to create a safer traffic environment was very nice, and I agree with the decision to do this for the most part. There is one issue that was not mentioned and that is: Who is going to pay the legal fees…
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Millstone rejects cell tower proposal
The Township Committee has decided it isn’t interested in a proposal by Nextel to use township-owned land for business purposes. By: Frank C. D’Amico MILLSTONE The Township Committee has decided it isn’t interested in a proposal by Nextel to use township-owned land for business purposes. The committee received a letter from Calin Marta, a…
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More intrigue about one founding father
BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman: One review of the David McCullough biography of John Adams notes that the author "includes enough biographical material on Jefferson that this can be considered two biographies for the price of one." By: Joan Ruddiman One review of the David McCullough biography of John Adams notes that the author "includes…
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Parking, garbage disposals top council agenda
An ordinance that would authorize the purchase of the Carson Road Woods and an ordinance that would create permit parking on streets near Lawrence High School will top Township Council’s agenda Tuesday. By: Lea Kahn Township Council will meet at 8 p.m. in the courtroom at the municipal building to consider those ordinances. The township…
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Father’s necessity mothers invention
Resident solves daughter’s tangled hair troubles By:Minx McCloud Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, and in Hillsborough father Thomas Filippone’s case, it’s true. His "retracting hairholder," a painless way to secure hair in a ponytail, was invented last year largely because of his three daughters, Ana, 5; Elena, 3; and Cristina, 2. "My…
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, July 12, 2001
Taxpayers may be asked to fund fields in future To the editor: Many years ago the Hopewell Valley Board of Education had the foresight to purchase 48 acres of farm land adjacent to the Timberlane Junior School to be used when needed by increased enrollment. This area is known as "Back Timberlane." There are…
