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HILLSBOROUGH: Cub Scout Pack 189 races kids’ hand-crafted mini-cars
Special award winners, from left, were Atticus DeFilippis for best-looking car, Maysen Lane for fastestlooking car, Ryan Plum for most realistic-looking, and Erik Robuck and for most imaginative.
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Bordentown Elks supporting U.S. troops
Sharon Sharpe of Bordentown To the editor: Since 2008, the Veterans Committee of the Bordentown Elks Lodge 2085 has sent care packages to seventeen groups of servicemen and women. We are contacted by a lodge member telling us a friend or relative has been deployed. We send a letter of introduction followed by care packages.…
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FIELDSBORO: Chamber looks to networking at The Cool Cricket
FIELDSBORO — Business leaders are planning a networking event at The Cool Cricket. The Northern Burlington Regional Chamber of Commerce is uniting for a Business to Business gathering from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19. The event will be hosted by The Cool Cricket, 216 Fourth Street, in Fieldsboro. Participants are encouraged to…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Stay warm with dancing
HIGHSTOWN —The winter sessions of “Dancing by the Peddie Lake with Candace Woodward-Clough,” which offer instruction in swing, foxtrot, waltz and Latin dancing, will be held at 112 Etra Road. Classes will begin Thursday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb.22, and continue for four weeks. Beginner classes start at 7:30 p.m. and intermediate classes begin…
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HERALD HAPPENINGS: PHOTOS: Week of Feb. 8
Batista Members of East Windsor Boy Scout Troop 5700 and Troop 59 attend a Township Council meeting as part of earning their citizenship merit badges on Feb. 5, including, from left, Frankie Barzda, Alex LoPorto, Dan Burgess and John O’Brien — who join Mayor Janice Mironov — along with Tyler Goslin and Stephen Brookwell. (Photo…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Family seeks community support for home improvements
Submitted photo Marcy Fantel and her son Ray.
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: T.J. Taylor signs with Rutgers football team
By Ed Birch, Special Writer SBHS senior T.J. Taylor, co-captain and star player from this year’s State Championship South Brunswick Vikings football squad has officially signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Rutgers University’s Scarlet Knight football program. The Big East powerhouse team from New Brunswick will soon be competing in the…
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MANVILLE: Gum wrappers dramatize school project on intolerance
By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer Eighth-graders at Alexander Batcho Intermediate School are studying intolerance and prejudice by reading books, creating websites, interviewing Holocaust survivors — and making a long gum-wrapper chain to emphasize the number of people killed by Nazism during the World War II era. The students are reading “To Kill a Mockingbird”…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Buono announces run for governor
By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor NEW BRUNSWICK — It’s official. State Sen. Barbara Buono, D-18, will challenge Republican Gov. Chris Christie in November. Sen. Buono, of Metuchen, officially began her race to the Governor’s Mansion with a stop at New Brunswick High School on Route 27 Saturday afternoon. According to the campaign, more than…
