Category: archives
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Editorial
Parents can add to kids’ education By: centraljersey.com Students throughout central New Jersey will head back to school next week, causing many parents to breath a sigh of relief. Summer is over, after all, and the kids will be out of the house. But the school year offers a different kind of challenge to parents,…
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Health matters
Spotlight on Da Vinci prostatectomy By: John A. Watson, M.D. – Princeton HealthCare System In prostate cancer surgery, millimeters matter. Located just beneath the bladder, the prostate is attached to numerous nerve fibers and blood vessels that play an important role in urinary continence and sexual function. To spare these nerves and vessels during surgery,…
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Meetings
Tues., Sept. 7 By: centraljersey.com Cranbury Township Board of Education, large group room in the school, 23 N. Main St. Cranbury Township Historical Preservation Commission, 7:30 p.m., Gourgaud Gallery, Town Hall, 23A N. Main St. Monroe Township Shade Tree Commission, 7 p.m., 1 Municipal Plaza. Wed., Sept. 8 Jamesburg Borough Council, 7 p.m., Borough Hall,…
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Police blotter
By: centraljersey.com On Sept. 3, the Hopewell Township Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint, beginning at 8 p.m. and ending on Sept. 4 at 2 a.m. The checkpoint will be conducted on Pennington Road at Denow Road. The police department has experienced a disproportionately high number of crashes along this section of roadway, many…
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Church to host seminar for step-parents
By: centraljersey.com On Tuesday evenings, beginning Sept. 14 and running through Nov. 16, a seminar/workshop entitled "Step-up to a Healthy Step-family" is being offered at Christian Community Chapel (CCC) in Hillsborough. The sessions will be facilitated by Rev. Joel E. Davis and will meet from 7:30 until 9 p.m. A unique design requires the husband…
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New principals set to lead three district schools
By: Eileen Oldfield – Staff Writer Seventeen new teachers will join the school district, and several new programs, including online course work, have been instituted for the 2010-2011 school year, set to start Friday. "We’re opening the school beautifully," District Superintendent Johanna Ruberto said. "The entire district is very positive, and we are confident in…
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ALLENTOWN: Bridge to the future
Stone Bridge Middle School readies to open By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — Parents, grandparents, children and the simply curious eagerly toured the new Stone Bridge Middle School last week to see the $51.5 million project that will give the Upper Freehold Regional School District some much-needed breathing room when it opens Sept. 13.…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Rooftop view: Grainger shows off its solar panel power
Distribution Director Rob Reynolds shows visitors the 3,900 solar panels on the roof of the Grainger Distribution Center in Robbinsville on Monday. Staff photo by Joanne Degnan
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Church group connects with children in Haiti
By: Eileen Oldfield – Staff Writer Monfort Road resident Alena D’Auria knew the images of post-earthquake Haiti from seeing them on television and on the Internet following the Jan. 20 quake. But spending a week rebuilding houses and parts of an orphanage in Calabasse, a town outside Port-Au-Prince, brought the disaster home, she said. "One…
