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  • ‘Double-dipping’ must end now

    DJ Kurz Lambertville     What do Sen. Loretta Weinberg, Cabinet Secretary Lou Goetting, and Assistant Insurance Commissioner Joseph Brennan all have in common?    They (and scores of others) are all retired public sector employees, who have gone back to work for the state and are collecting state wages while also collecting taxpayer-funded state pensions.    This…

  • Nassau Tennis Club’s Junior Tennis Team Takes Second Place at the USTA National Championships

    Nassau Tennis Club’s Junior Tennis Team Takes Second Place at the USTA National Championships

    By Stacey Anderson Skillman, NJ (October 25, 2012) – Sixteen junior tennis teams in the 14 & Under category, from all over the country, came to battle in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) National Championships from October 19-21 in Cayce, South Carolina. Nassau Tennis Club’s junior tennis team beat teams from Texas, New England, the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: School board hears request to add Diwali as holiday

    Board approves 2013-14 school calendar By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    After hearing a request from the South Asian community to add a Hindi family festival day as a school holiday, the Board of Education approved the 2013-14 school year calendar without it Monday night.       About 75 residents came to support several speakers who asked…

  • Welcoming Karen Alexander, Executive Director of WilfSenior Services at Home

    Welcoming Karen Alexander, Executive Director of WilfSenior Services at Home

    Karen Alexander, Executive Director WilfSenior Services at Home

  • MILLSTONE: State grant sought to repair Stillhouse Road

    By David Kilby, Special Writer    MILLSTONE — Stillhouse Road may be getting some overdue repairs now that the township has applied for a state grant to fix one of the township’s main connector roads.    The Millstone Township Committee on Oct. 17 approved a grant application seeking state funds for the repair work. The township is…

  • Letter: Elect Dave Boyne to Robbinsville Township Council

    From: Sonja Walter, Robbinsville. To the editor:    One of the most important jobs of Robbinsville Township Council is to adopt the municipal budget. Since the current trend is to shift more of the tax burden to municipalities, it is important to have someone who will be there for us. Dave Boyne has the professional expertise…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Local resident named Trident Scholar
  • ALLENTOWN: AHS students tasting victory

    Changes in the lunchroom menu, new after-school meals offered By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — It was a cafeteria food fight that made school administrators proud.    Operation Paper Bag — a student-led protest at Allentown High School over the higher cost and smaller portions now required by the National School Lunch Program — launched…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter

       Darren L. Wardlaw, 42, of Trenton, was charged with shoplifting two pairs of Reebok sneakers, valued at $119.98, from Sears at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 3:39 p.m. Oct. 22. He was taken to the Mercer County Corrections Center because of outstanding warrants.    Angel McDaniels, 38, of Johnson Avenue, was charged with issuing terroristic threats,…