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  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Town readies for Thomas Paine festival

    By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor    BORDENTOWN CITY — He was really a now kind of guy. Maybe not an Occupy Wall Street man, but today, “he could very well be occupying something,” said Doug Palmieri, owner of The Old Book Shop and one of the rebel’s biggest fans.    The 99 percent were Thomas Paine’s kind…

  • Registration Now Open for the Animal Welfare Federation of NJ Animal Welfare & Care Conference March 10&11

    Registration Now Open for the Animal Welfare Federation of NJ Animal Welfare & Care Conference March 10&11

    By AWFNJ Registration is now open for the Animal Welfare Federation of NJ’s 2012 Annual Animal Welfare and Care Conference Date: Saturday, March 10 & Sunday March 11 Location: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Busch Campus Center 604 Bartholomew Road Piscataway, New Jersey 08854  The AWFNJ Conferences have been touted as some of…

  • All-Star Teaching Staff Shines at School of Rock Princeton

    All-Star Teaching Staff Shines at School of Rock Princeton

    Dante Cimino, Music Director A stellar faculty get the kids rockin’ When most people think of the School of Rock performance-based music program in Princeton, images of youthful guitar heroes come to mind, like the righteous kids in Jack Black’s hit "School of Rock" movie from 2003. Like their cinematic counterparts, the Princeton students are…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Local teens organize coat drive

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    HAMILTON — It’s been a busy month for the teenagers of the St. Gregory the Great Parish’s youth ministry who have completed three different community services projects to help the poor, including a coat drive that will keep more than 400 needy residents of Appalachia warm this winter.    The coat…

  • MANVILLE: K-9 dog will be at senior center this week

       Except for holidays, the Manville Senior Center on South Third Avenue is open and fully functioning.    The Manville Recreation Department leads lightweight exercise on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:15–10:45 a.m., and “walk and chair” exercise on Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Exercise classes with Lynn at $10 each run from September to June.    Bingo is…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Pleasing everyone with school calendar is hard to do

    HILLSBOROUGH: Pleasing everyone with school calendar is hard to do

    Graduation day of June 20, 2013, is locked in, but nothing else By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    It’s not easy to make a school calendar.    You’re bound at the start by Labor Day, which comes early this year (Sept. 3). You can’t schedule teacher district-wide and building orientations before that day, because teachers contractually start…

  • Trenton Thunder Pre-Season Party at Mrs. G TV & Appliances
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: BOE recognizes Merit finalists

    By Ed Birch, Special Writer Four South Brunswick High School seniors have earned Semi-Finalist status in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.¶ The program selected the top 16,000 students from the 1.5 million who competed in the Preliminary Scholastic Test (PSAT) during their junior year in high school.¶ The four students were recognized with their…

  • LAWRENCE: Students turning school into their own EPA

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Taking a cue from the federal government, the Ben Franklin Elementary School has set up its own version the Environmental Protection Agency.    Students at the grades pre-K to 3 school are monitoring their own use of energy and focusing on recycling — from turning off the lights when they leave…