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  • News submission tips that should make everyone’s job easier

    By:    Next week, schools open. Summer officially will be over. Along with schools, area clubs and organizations will be getting back to business and again will begin to submit news about their activities and coming events.    If you are one of the many people in the Register-News area responsible for submitting news releases to the…

  • Vice principal set

    By: Frank C. D’Amico    UPPER FREEHOLD – When he retired from the Marine Corps in 1994, Rodney Logan was ready for a new challenge.    He found that challenge in education.    Mr. Logan on Friday will start as a vice principal at Allentown High School. He will join Constance Embley as a vice principal at the…

  • Women standing up in politics

    BOOK BEAT by Marge Dwyer    After watching Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, the lone woman doing battle with a panel of male talking heads on The McGlaughlin Group each week, I was only too ready to read "Madam President," the second book she has written in collaboration with her husband, Washington editor Tom Brazaitis.    The book is…

  • Parents decry replacing books with computers

    Board members say parents are misunderstanding computer presence By:Eric Schwarz    Placement of 39 computers in the middle school library angered several parents attending Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting.    The parents lamented what they saw as the district emphasizing the development of electronic research resources rather than books at Alexander Batcho Intermediate School.    The board and…

  • Catharine Matilda Dale

       Catharine Matilda Dale, 91, died Saturday at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Trenton, she moved to Lawrenceville in 1980.    Mrs. Dale was a member of Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church, Lawrence Plaza Club and a former member of Liberty Chapter of Deborah Hospital Foundation.    Wife of the late John C. Dale, and…

  • Projects planned to aid water at Etra Lake

    Volunteers needed to help plant up to 500 trees By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – So many trees have been lost to development around East Windsor that residents may wish to help to turn the tide, assisting with a reforestation project at Etra Lake Park this fall.    The new trees will actually help control…

  • New programs at AHS

    By: Frank C. D’Amico    UPPER FREEHOLD – Every school years brings changes, and this year is no different at Allentown High School.    The school will have a new vice principal, Rodney Logan, who will take over from Monica Taylor.    Christopher Nagy, principal of the school, said there also will be a new career resource room…

  • Neighborhood Center starts bus fund-raiser

    DYFS requirements mandate new purchase By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Neighborhood Service Center plans to kick off a special fund-raising campaign next month to enable its purchase of a 16-passenger school bus.    Fund-raising letters will be sent to township residents and businesses in September, said Maurice Wright III, executive director of the Lawrence Neighborhood Service…

  • The Art of War

    It’s déjà vu all over again for Wesley Snipes as an innocent man on the run.   [R] By: Kam Williams    Usually when a plot gets lifted, the director doesn’t steal from one of his star’s own movies. So, as I watched The Art of War unfold, I kept asking myself where I’d seen this very familiar…