Category: archives
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MANVILLE: Tough choice: Stem floods or save farms?
It would appear that local municipalities have another tool in their kit to address the plight of some individuals who want out of their flood-prone properties. The district’s legislators, state Sen. “Kip” Bateman and Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, are praising the new law, known as Assembly Bill 4267, that allows municipalities and counties to tap their…
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Iron Lady’
This is a hollow film with a great performance trapped inside it, ricocheting off the walls, with no place to go By Elise Nakhnikian It used to be about trying to DO something. Now it’s about trying to BE someone,” sneers The Iron Lady’s Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) of our changing social values. She’s…
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CURE Auto Insurance and 94.5 PST Launch Seventh Annual "Pay It Forward" Scholarship
By Tom Cosentino Princeton, NJ – Young adults who do worthwhile things like feeding the hungry or raising money for an important cause will have a chance at being rewarded for their kindness by having it PAID FORWARD as part of the Seventh Annual “Pay It Forward” Scholarship Award from CURE Auto Insurance and 94.5…
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SAUMITRA SAHI OF PRINCETON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3
Comedy reigns as apocalypse survivors try to deal with the hardships of their new world in Doomsdays of Our Lives
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ROBBINSVILLE: BOE mulls options for expanding two schools
By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor ROBBINSVILLE The school district’s architect told the Board of Education last week that adding a total 29 classrooms to the elementary and middle schools, and expanding both cafeterias, could be done for roughly half of the projected $35.1 million cost of building a new 38-classroom school building. Voters rejected…
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MANVILLE: Dentist will ‘give kids a smile’
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Manville Dental Group will again give free dental care to needy children in the annual “Give Kids A Smile” program Friday, Feb. 3, from 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. The nationwide National Dental Month event focuses on providing oral health education to all children despite their economic status. Give Kids A…
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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.
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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,…
