Category: archives
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LIfe leads Lawrence and a love for the Russian language
Ask Helen Saltz Jacobson why she has devoted most of her life to learning and translating the Russian language and, with the timing of Gracie Allen, she’ll reply, "Because I’d already tried French and German." By: Steve Bates This month, the 79-year-old Lawrence resident releases her eighth major work, "Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and…
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Town to feds: move mercury
Agency gets an earful preparing of environmental statement By: Laura Toto Federal officials held a meeting Tuesday to hear comments from Hillsborough residents about what to do with 2,615 metric tons of highly toxic mercury stored at the Somerville Depot – and they heard plenty. "I am puzzled that we have to go through this…
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Amoco application put on hold
Zoners postpone hearing proposal for gas station/food mart on corner of Route 130-Meadowbrook Road. By: Frank C. D’Amico WASHINGTON Review of a plan to build a gas station and food mart on Route 130 has been postponed until the June 21 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting. The BP Amoco corporation wants to build a…
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Editorial: Poor Clare nuns could use our help this time
Many Bordentonians and residents from neighboring townships have seen the gradual transformation of the city’s Poor Clare Monastery on Crosswicks Street into a senior residential community. By: Slated to be completed in July of this year, the 10-acre Clare Estate will have 137 units on the property. Some of the units will be independent apartments,…
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Library expansion gets first approval
BORDENTOWN CITY The Bordentown Library could see a dramatic increase in size and services under an expansion agreement given preliminary approval by county freeholders last week. By:Vanessa S. Holt The county would provide $1 million toward the $1.9 million project also being funded by the Bordentown Library Association (BLA), which has owned and operated…
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Students to represent state in contest
It’s 2001 and a group of Lawrence Intermediate School fourth- and fifth-graders is heading off on an odyssey and no, HAL is not invited. By: Lea Kahn The students, members of the school’s Odyssey of the Mind team, are going to the University of Maryland to compete in the Odyssey of the Mind world…
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Soccer facility draws critics
A soccer organization’s goal to construct a commercial training center on Potts Road in Washington has raised concern from officials in adjacent Upper Freehold. By: Frank C. D’Amico WASHINGTON Zoning Board of Adjustment meetings don’t usually draw crowds from other municipalities, but that happened here May 17. A soccer organization’s goal to construct a…
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Mouse ears aren’t really the true forget-me-nots
SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By: Heather Lovett "Of all the flowers that deck the field, Or grace the garden of the heart, Though others richer perfume yield, The sweetest is forget-me-not." Anonymous You’d think a flower with a plea for remembrance built into its name would be easy to identify, but common plant names are notoriously…
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Allentown put on list of endangered villages
A state conservation group is concerned the borough and villages like it might soon go the way of the dodo. By: Frank C. D’Amico ALLENTOWN A state conservation group is concerned Allentown and villages like it might soon go the way of the dodo. Preservation of New Jersey Inc., a nonprofit preservation group, has…
