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  • DISPATCHES: Material incentives send wrong message

    By: Hank Kalet    South Brunswick students who get good grades can look forward to some good stuff.    That’s the message the high school is sending its students this year with its new Renaissance program. Under the program businesses contribute gifts or shopping discounts to the district that are then used to reward students who excel.…

  • Thanks, Mr. P., for all your work

    LIVING IN MANVILLE By:Mary Ellen Zangara    What a great night to start the football season at Manville High School and dedicate the field to long time Vice Principal Ned Panfile. Friday night had perfect weather for the festivities planned.    Manville High School’s football field is now officially known as the Ned Panfile Stadium. The scoreboard…

  • Take precautions againstWest Nile virus, but don’t panic

    BEACON EDITORIAL By:Hillsborough Beacon    The call came about 4:30 p.m. last Thursday. The paper had been out on the stands only 10 hours, and already the news week was getting off to a fresh start.    û û "West Nile virus has turned up in Hills­ borough," we were told. The virus, which causes a form…

  • Out in the wilderness, I met my son

    DEAR NEIGHBOR By:Hugh Brennan    Sometimes you feel like a change, a real change. You get stale. The routine becomes drudg­ery, and you look forward to a va­cation as much as a prisoner looks forward to escape.     I’d reached that point this year. Too many months had gone by without a real break. Too many…

  • Grant gives schools second cop

    $125,000 will be used for new officer By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence Township has been awarded a $125,000 federal grant to hire a new police officer through the U.S. Department of Justice’s "Cops In School" program.    The grant will allow the Lawrence Township Police Department to hire a new police officer and to assign a veteran…

  • Calli, NBC defense throw out a 28-0 beauty

    By:Sean Moylan        Anthony Cali threw three touchdown passes to lead the Northern Burlington County Regional High School football squad to a nearly meticulous 28-0 home win over Monroe on Saturday.    While last year’s Greyhound squad gave opponents a steady diet of Artie McDonnell up the middle and Ryan Orloski and Bryant Richardson on the…

  • Township has lowest property tax rate in Burlington County

    Tax rate lowest for third consecutive year By:Jeff Mikalaitis        NORTH HANOVER – The township has the lowest property tax rate in Burlington County for the third consecutive year.    Mayor John S. Kocubinski said the low tax rate is due to good financial management, and the township’s decision not to chase ratables, but instead to…

  • SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT

       The first annual Hopewell Valley Softball Fall Classic tournament can only be described as a complete success. Not only was the weather and the games excellent, but the home team won.    In the tournament that featured two teams from Hopewell, Montgomery, Hamilton, West Windsor, Clinton, Ewing, and North Brunswick, the defending league champion Hopewell One…

  • Pennington to hire hydro-geologist

    Council wants study of B-MS water management plan By:John Tredea    The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants the Pennington Borough Council to vote on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s water management plan for the firm’s proposed major expansion of its research campus in Hopewell Township, about a mile northeast of the borough.    "The DEP has requested formal…