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Better Beginnings gets $5K grant
By: centraljersey.com Better Beginnings Day Care Center of Hightstown/East Windsor Inc. is one of five organizations in Mercer County that has each received a $5,000 grant from BlackRock Inc., in partnership with the Princeton Area Community Foundation. The grants were awarded to charitable organizations that focus on the needs of underprivileged children and their families.…
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Schoenauer’s favorites
By: centraljersey.com Food: Prime rib Book: The World According to Garp Team: Philadelphia Flyers Movie: Return of the King Musician: Boys like Girls Athlete: Walter Payton TV show: The Office Animal: Grizzly bear Subject: Language arts Sports moment: Being a part of last year’s undefeated WW-P South freshman football team.
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CRANBURY: Residents again ask board to move bus stops
By Natalia Knochowski, Staff Writer CRANBURY — Residents of Parkview Road and Hardley Drive once again asked the Board of Education to consider changing two new bus stops at the board’s meeting Tuesday night. The bus stops used to be on Parkview Road and Hardley Drive and were moved to Old Trenton Road weeks prior…
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Evan Grossman
By: centraljersey.com EAST WINDSOR – A proposed 137-unit housing development got an ‘F’ from the regional school district this week. At a crowded Planning Board meeting Monday night, school officials warned that the controversial Enchantment at East Windsor development would cause the district’s student population to swell and lead to higher taxes. Enchantment at East…
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Briefs
By: centraljersey.com East Windsor PAL is now accepting registration for Instructional Basketball for Pre-K through 2nd Grades; and Indoor Soccer for Pre-K through 12th grade. Registration can be done weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the office; drop it in the black box on the porch any time; or online at www.eastwindsorpal.org for…
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Rise gets $15K grant from NRG
By: centraljersey.com HIGHTSTOWN – Rise has received a $15,00 grant from Princeton-based electricity generation company NRG Energy through its NRG Energy Fund, administered by the Princeton Area Community Foundation. The grant was given in support of the Hightstown-East Windsor Learning program. Teresa Sacks, acting executive director of Rise, said the money was used to promote…
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Justin Feil
By: centraljersey.com Kevin Francfort has been starting in the middle of the Princeton Day School boys soccer defense for three years, and each year he’s had someone new next to him in the middle. The Panthers graduated Owen Haney from last year’s 11-win team that was a shootout away from the Prep B final, but…
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Area enjoying success at all levels of soccer
By: centraljersey.com The U11 Power blanked both the Freehold Shooters, 1-0, and the Wall United, 3-0 this past weekend. Against Freehold, Alex Morris and Caroline Cano fed Allie McDaid for the game’s lone goal. A stingy defense was led by Diba Onochie and Meghna Mishra, along with a great last-minute goal-saving play by Lisa Cohen.…
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Photo: Frank Wojciechowski
By: centraljersey.com Virginia was born on Sept. 15, 1910, in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Philip F. Chapman, a prominent local lawyer and banker, and Gladys Doten, a leading figure in Maine’s women’s suffrage movement .While she missed seeing Halley’s Comet in 1910 by six months, she did see it in 1986. Virginia attended the…
