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  • District play ends for local trio

    Washington squad records lone victory. By: Kyle Moylan    Going into the fifth inning on July 3, the Millstone-Roosevelt squad had the lead, the momentum and the knowledge that it had shut down Princeton’s best threat of the game via a great defensive play. By the time Princeton finished batting in the top of the fifth,…

  • 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…

  • ‘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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…