Category: archives
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Police contract calls for 4 percent pay hikes
Township council OK’d the new collective bargaining agreement Tuesday; increases have been included in the 2000 township budget and are retroactive to Jan. 1 By: Lea Kahn Township police officers are in line to receive pay hikes of 4 percent each year, under the terms of the three-year contract unanimously ratified by Township Council Tuesday…
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For week of Nov. 23
By: Roseann Lee, 42 MILLSTONE – Roseann Lee, 42, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Born in Watertown, N.Y., she lived in Clarksburg for 10 years. She is survived by her husband, Richard; her parents, Chuck and Kam Oy Gee of New York City; two daughters, Courtney and Taylor Lee, and…
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Council vows better event planning
Council, remembering criticism for holding Community Day on the second day of Rosh Hashana, agreed to avoid religious holidays when planning future communitywide activities By: Lea Kahn Still smarting from criticism for scheduling Community Day on the second day of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana, Township Council has agreed to avoid holding communitywide activities…
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Democerats, media unravel GOP planning
LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the editor: It’s been the most distressing part of my exposure to local governing – that all-too-frequently, the newspapers are not merely inaccurate, but they also come down on the side of those who prevaricate and manipulate. As a participant in the meetings where critical decisions are made, I read…
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Fictional account brings painter to life
BOOK BEAT by Marge Dwyer: The mysterious Johannes Vermeer produced only 35 paintings, but a flurry of interest surrouds the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is the most celebrated painter to have been born in the small Dutch town of Delft, but his completed body of work is quite small, some 35 paintings. So, one might…
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Lawrence trainers keep fellow students playing
There are not a lot of females on the sidelines at Lawrence High football games. After all, the Cardinals’ squad is entirely male, as is the coaching staff. As far as females, there’s the cheerleading squad, as well as scattered photographers and statisticians. By: Steve Feitl But one group of girls that could be counted…
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Students create living wax museum
By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON – "Let me put a smile on your face so I can make the world a better place," said Bernard McNair, a fifth-grader at Pond Road Middle School. He wasn’t quite himself that day, however. "Hey, hey, hey," he rasped in as deep a voice as he could muster. "In 1965,…
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Miriam Lewis
Miriam Lewis, 91, died Saturday at Tandem Health Care of Lawrenceville. Born in Philadelphia and a longtime resident, she lived at Mill Run Residential Facility in Bristol, Pa., before moving to Lawrenceville six years ago. She was a self-employed medical secretary in Philadelphia for many years. She read for the blind in Philadelphia and had…
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Breaking the cycle
The Lawrence High School DECA club wants to raise $2,000 to aid in the construction of schools in small communities in Nicaragua By: Lea Kahn Children in a small Nicaraguan community will have a shot at breaking out of the cycle of poverty by gaining an education in a brand new school, if the Lawrence…
