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  • Follow the Yellow Brick Road to MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre for "The Wizard of Oz"

    Follow the Yellow Brick Road to MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre for "The Wizard of Oz"

    Pictured, from left, are Mike McCollum of Feasterville, Pa., as the Wizard; Matt South of Levittown, Pa., as Cowardly Lion; Kaitlyn Bader of Westampton as Dorothy; Matthew Muccigrossi of Belle Mead as Scarecrow; and Del Howard of Lawrenceville as Tinman.

  • New video to debut on New Hope’s Benjamin Parry
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: District honors top academics at SBHS

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: District honors top academics at SBHS

    By Ed Birch, Special Writer    The Board of Education honored the 2012 National; Merit Scholarship Program’s Commended Students and the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program’s Outstanding Participants during its meeting Monday night.    According to high school Principal Timothy Matheney, these students represented the top 32 percent of the nationwide participants.    Each student was honored along…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend

       BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A HamiltonTownship man pleaded guilty Monday to killing his girlfriend inside of her home in the Bradford Pointe Apartments on Nov. 7, 2011, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi.    Noel Irizarry, 41, of Harrison Avenue in Hamilton, admitted to strangling Misty D. Ramos, 31, inside her apartment at 122 Bradford…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: District getting more state aid

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    South Brunswick schools are slated to get $1.8 million more this year in state aid, according to officials.    The increase in funding is part of Gov. Chris Christie’s budget to increase education spending by $250 million.    ”I am pleased that the governor’s budget contains a substantial, $7.8 million increase…

  • SOUTH HUNTERDON: Special guests

    SOUTH HUNTERDON: Special guests

    Seniors participate in a halftime presentation at the South Hunterdon varsity game against South Amboy. Photo by Laura Pedrick

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Three districts to get large aid increases

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    The Lambertville, Stockton and South Hunterdon Regional school districts are expected to get large increases in state aid this year, according to figures released last week by the state Department of Education.    The West Amwell Elementary district, however, is expected to get less than the other three — a 2.5…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Charter school zoning saga continues

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Charter school zoning saga continues

    Staff photo by Charles W. Kim Members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment prepare to continue the hearing for the PIACS charter school in South Brunswick on Feb. 23.

  • AT THE PRESERVE: Week of March 1

       — Build-a-Birdhouse Contest — The Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve will celebrate birds at the ninth annual spring garden gala April 28. The gala will highlight the importance of native plants and intact habitat to the amazing diversity of birds that migrate through, or nest at, the preserve. In keeping with this avian theme, there will…