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  • Thanksgiving is about giving –

    Thanksgiving is about giving –

    Resident Lillian Epstein Presented the Check to the Food Bank

  • Rising Star Returns Home for Demo Release Party

    Rising Star Returns Home for Demo Release Party

    By Carly Koziol PRINCETON, N.J. n Maxwell Pollock will return to his hometown for a highly anticipated demo release party, “Swank Tank,” on Dec. 8 at the Paul Robeson Arts Council of Princeton. "When making this demo, I was really inspired by dance music and love songs, everything from disco to contemporary R&B. I wanted…

  • LAWRENCE: Educator outlines ways boys and girls learn

       While each child is unique, boys and girls are different — and it’s not so much what they learn, as it is the techniques that teachers use to instruct them, that determines their success in school.    That was the message delivered by Olen Kalkus. He is the founding headmaster of the Princeton Academy of the…

  • American Legion Post 401 Donates to Food Bank

    American Legion Post 401 Donates to Food Bank

    By Gary Cooper Members of American Legion Post 401 dropped off a truck-load of provisions, everything from frozen turkeys to cereal, to help stock the South Brunswick Food Bank’s shelves and freezers on Monday, Nov. 21, just ion time for Thanksgiving. The Posts annual food drive in support of the Food Bank began November 1, and…

  • LAWRENCE: Child abuse expert to give talk for parents

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The clinical director of PEI Kids has been invited to offer a special presentation Monday to help parents learn how to speak to their children about sexual abuse, in the wake of recent national scandals involving sexual abuse by adults.    Dr. Juanita Brooks, the clinical director of the Lawrence Township-based…

  • Community Calendar: Nov. 24 edition

    Thurs., Nov. 24    Happy Thanksgiving! Fri., Nov. 25    Third Annual Allentown High School Men’s Varsity Alumni Soccer Game: 1 p.m., Mark Harbourt soccer fields, Upper Freehold. AHS alumni and the current Allentown boys varsity soccer team can participate in this event being coordinated by AHS Varsity Team Manager Genevieve Finn. Members from past AHS teams…

  • SPRINGFIELD: District seeks engineer for building referendum

    BY Amber Cox, Special Writer    SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Township School District has sent out requests for proposals to engineers to become a part of the school’s upcoming building referendum project.    Interim Superintendent Joseph Miller explained that a civil engineer or site engineer is needed to evaluate any option that comes before the school board…

  • FLORENCE: Diocese eyes apartment project for Florence tract

    By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor    FLORENCE — The Diocese of Trenton wants to build 36 apartments for seniors on 4 acres at Parish Lane and Hornberger Avenue.    But first the tract needs to be rezoned from a quasi-school area to R-C (Residential-Commercial), said Township Council President Dennis O’Hara.    The Planning Board was to hear the…

  • LAWRENCE: Roxboro Road development questioned

       Township planners and neighbors alike flooded the developer of a proposed seven-lot subdivision on Roxboro Road with questions about a stormwater detention basin and landscaping issues Monday night.    The Planning Board listened for more than three hours as the engineer and the tree expert for developer Edward Bucci Builders Inc. outlined the plans for the…