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  • Zoning chair runs for clerk

    Wiznitzer seeks county position on Florio’s slate By: Lea Kahn        When Lawrence Township and Mercer County Democratic Party voters go to the polls to select their party’s nominees in the June 6 primary, they will have more than one name to choose for U.S. Senate — and for Mercer County Clerk.    Township resident Edward…

  • LMS named one of New Jersey’s ‘stars’

    One of only 10 schools in the state named a ‘Star School’ By: Lea Kahn        The Lawrence Middle School has been named one of 10 “Star Schools” in the state Department of Education’s annual Best Practices/Star Schools Program.    School district officials will pick up the award, which also carries a $1,000 check, at the…

  • ‘Million Moms’ are misguided moms

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    Media darlings Jodi Tolman, Debra Wachspress and their Bunch o’ Moms March have gotten a heap o’ Lawrence Ledger ink recently: half a page March 9 for their two letters, half a page May 4 for that puff piece starting on page one, another quarter-page May 4 for…

  • Just call her ‘Grandma’

    LEDGER LAND by T.J. Furman    When most people address Alice Holden, they call her “grandma.”    Many of those people are of school age, but none actually is one of Mrs. Holden’s grandchildren.    Mrs. Holden has been working at Benjamin Franklin School on Princeton Pike in some capacity since the start of the 1960-61 school year.…

  • Terrifying story

    Holocaust survivor speaks to Sunnymead students By:Jack Baney    Sunnymead School fifth-graders recently were asked to imagine an awful scenario.    “Visualize someone coming knocking on your door and telling you, ‘Collect all your clothes, collect all the valuables you have and assemble in the school yard,’” Margit Feldman, 71, of Bridgewater, told them on Tuesday. “Can…

  • Prof pays tribute to ‘fast-talking dames’

    Remembering those wise-cracking, slang-talking, self-sufficient women of film By: Jeff Milgram    Maria DiBattista, professor of modern literature and film at Princeton University, first learned to appreciate the quintessential fast-talking dame of screwball comedies from the 1930s and ’40s “as a young girl watching the late show when my parents went to sleep.”    She liked these…

  • Township closing in on budget adoption

    Public hearing opened on $23 million spending plan By: Jane Karlicek    The Princeton Township Committee opened the public hearing on its proposed $23 million municipal budget Monday night — but the hearing won’t be closed until May 22.    The budget is not yet ready for final adoption because the budgets for joint agencies, those that…

  • Vote on CCRC delayed again

    Planning Board may hire consultant to review ordinance By: Jane Karlicek    The introduction of a controversial ordinance to govern continuing-care retirement communities has been delayed again, as the Princeton Regional Planning Board has decided to consider hiring a consultant to review the proposed ordinance.    The board, which made its decision after debating the issue long…

  • Edward J. Ostrowski

       Edward J. Ostrowski Sr., 82, died Sunday at Tandem Health Care Center, Lawrenceville.    Born in Trenton, he was a Trenton and Lawrence Township area resident.    Mr. Ostrowski was a self-employed carpenter in the Trenton area for more than 40 years.    He was an Army veteran of World War II serving with the 1262nd Headquarters Co.…