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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Precision spin team debuts 2012 show

    HILLSBOROUGH: Precision spin team debuts 2012 show

    Winterguard Novice performer Emily Van Pelt, an 8th grader, shows her brother, college student Brendan Comfort, how to spin a flag.

  • LAWRENCE: Property tax referendum possible

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Hampered by the combination of a maximum 2-percent increase in the municipal property tax rate and a declining property tax base, Municipal Manager Richard Krawczun has recommended a referendum to increase the property tax rate for the 2012 municipal budget.    Mr. Krawczun made his recommendation to Township Council Tuesday night,…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Firefighers, Teamsters get raises in new contract

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVIlLE — The Township Council has approved a new four-year contract with Local 3786 representing the town’s career firefighters that provides 2 percent annual raises each year for the next three years, followed by a 3 percent salary increase in 2015.    The memorandum of agreement with Local 3786 approved at…

  • HILSBOROUGH: Flood buyouts gain potential source of funding

    Township could use open space trust fund By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Homeowners of flood-prone properties may have a slightly easier path to having their municipalities buy their homes.    Municipal officials are weighing the state Legislature’s unanimous passage of a bill that allows local and county open space funds to finance part of the acquisition…

  • MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Iron Lady’

    MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Iron Lady’

    Meryl Streep turns in another yet another ‘astonishingly good’ performance as Brirtish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was, at one time, the most powerful woman in the world, and who relished her position.

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Jan. 19 edition

    Thurs., Jan. 19    School-age Storytime and Craft: 4:15 p.m., Robbinsville branch of the Mercer County Library System, 42 Robbinsville-Allentown Road, Robbinsville. This class if for children in kindergarten and up. Online registration required at www.mcl.org.    Free Rabies Vaccination Clinic: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Robbinsville Township Pubic Works garage, 56 Robbinsville-Allentown Road, Robbinsville. For further…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: It’s a bittersweet start to retirement for Joe Malone

    By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor    BORDENTOWN CITY — It wasn’t supposed to end like this.    For Assemblymen Joseph Malone, R-30th, it was a hectic last day in an 18-year career in the state Legislature. The Bordentown City resident did not run for re-election and was looking forward to semi-retirement.    He had put in a grueling…

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Commemorated at MCCC

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Commemorated at MCCC

    Mercer County Community College’s Brothers of Faith Mime Team performed as part of the college’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration. Pictured are Marrche Miller and Jahmir Miller. (Photo by Candace Zafirellis)

  • ALEX KASDIN OF PRINCETON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3

    ALEX KASDIN OF PRINCETON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3

    Classic apocalyptic themes such as the four horsemen get a new twist in Princeton Triangle Club’s 2011 show: Doomsdays of Our Lives