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Home run derby funds to be split between family and high school ball teams
Batters up! By: Eileen Oldfield – Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH – Who is Hillsborough’s home run champion? The Hillsborough High School Diamond Club aims to find out who can hit a baseball or softball farthest while raising money for sports equipment and a local family who lost their home in a fire earlier this year, during…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Next referendum for school district: December 2012?
Lease proposed with Millstone By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE The school district will likely wait until at least 2012 to ask voters again for funding for a new school. In the meantime it is considering asking for help from the Millstone district. Faced with growing class sizes and the voters’ recent rejection of…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: 2010 Hambletonian winner Cream Ridge-bred
Ron Pierce, of Millstone, drives Muscle Massive to victory in the $1.5 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack on Aug. 7.
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Capitol news and comment
By: centraljersey.com The following items are taken from reports issued by legislators and other items of political concern. Sports brain injuries With high school sports practices getting under way, Assembly members Patrick J. Diegnan Jr., Craig J. Coughlin, Thomas P. Giblin and Mila M. Jasey are pushing legislation to create an awareness program on the…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Midship-’woman’ takes Naval academy in stride
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Margaret Gilroy’s typical day now begins at 5:30 a.m., with running, strength training exercises, interval training and other exercises. By breakfast, she’ll have already been through formation drills, and quizzed on policies and customs. By lunch, she’s been through fire fighting drills, drills on making her bed, and other courses…
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Academy life forces quick changes
Local Navy midshipman adapts to Annapolis By: Eileen Oldfield – Staff Writer Margaret Gilroy’s typical day now begins at 5:30 a.m., with running, strength training exercises, interval training and other exercises. By breakfast, she’ll have already been through formation drills, and quizzed on policies and customs. By lunch, she’s been through fire fighting drills, drills…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Police Beat
Three Trenton residents were charged after a driver was stopped Aug. 7 on I-195 for allegedly tailgating and failing to maintain a lane. Through an investigation and with the assistance of a K-9, it was determined that narcotics were in the vehicle and the driver was under the influence of narcotics, police said. Krystal Kreyling,…
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Bordentown jottings
By: centraljersey.com Please send items for this column to [email protected] with the words "Bordentown Jottings" in the subject line. Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at 1:30 p.m. at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive. All township seniors age 55 and over welcome.…
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Sponsors sought to help raise money for scholarships
HEF trying out golf for fall fundraiser By: Mary Ellen Zangara – Special Writer MANVILLE – No more working for months getting donations and filling dozens of baskets for the members of the Manville Education Foundation this year. The organization decided to shoot for bogeys and not baskets, focusing fundraising plans on a golf outing…
