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Unity group gets $20K grant
By: centraljersey.com HIGHTSTOWN – Community Unity-HEWR received a $20,000 grant from the Princeton Area Community Foundation, the community foundation serving Mercer County and central New Jersey, in support of Community Unity-HEWR. Community Unity-HEWR is one of 24 organizations to receive funding through the Community Foundation’s Greater Mercer Grant Program. Grants totaling over $470,000 were awarded…
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Andrew Corselli
By: centraljersey.com Two teachers with a combined 70 years of experience in the township will retire effective July 1. Linda Arnold, a speech teacher at Sunnymeade School, and Carolyn Weber, a math specialist at Sunnymeade, are retiring at the end of the school year. "I’m really kind of sad about it because I’m going to…
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Rich Fisher
By: centraljersey.com The progress being made by the Lawrence High boys’ basketball team finally showed itself in the form of a quality win last Friday night. The Cardinals 53-48 victory at Hamilton West – their first road win of the year – was their second victory in three games. They were even impressive in defeat…
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Susan Van Dongen
By: centraljersey.com Forget the controversy over the changes in Western astrology that’s been in the news lately. You know, all the chatter about how the earth’s wobbly rotation has shifted all the astrological signs by 23 degrees. So Geminis are now Tauruses and whatnot, Scorpio has been reduced to just about 10 days, and there’s…
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Ken Weingartner
By: centraljersey.com Gordon Wolf did not need to look far to find motivation for the rest of the wrestling season. The Lawrence High freshman found it in classmate Michael Jennings. Wolf finished second at 112 pounds in last weekend’s Mercer County Tournament at Robbinsville High School. Jennings, meanwhile, won the title at 130. Wolf, who…
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Raises not appropriate
By: centraljersey.com Your news article of last week, headlined "South teachers get pay raises," includes the factual percentages of the three-year teachers’ contract from the South Hunterdon Regional High School (SHRHS) given in a press release sent to local newspapers. However, it also contains subjective information from that same press release in which board members…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The ice storm cometh
Phil McAuliffe Staff photo by Phil McCauliffe South Brunswick employee Ken Kersch readies blankets that may be needed for the emergency shelter in the Senior Center on Route 522 Tuesday.
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HIGHTSTOWN: $nowstorms add up
By Doug Carman, Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN As the white piles up, the green is melting away. Borough Administrator Herb Massa said Hightstown had already spent about $16,386 of its $20,000 snow budget for this calendar year as of Jan. 26, the date of the last major snowstorm. Yes, that means he’s not even counting…
