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Squad fundraising with comedy night
The Manville First Aid and Rescue Squad is holding a benefit at the Stress Factory Comedy Club in New Brunswick to help mark the squad’s 75th anniversary. Tickets are $35 each and include dinner at 5 p.m. June 20, followed by performers including Buddy Fitzpatrick, of Comedy Central, and Melvin George. The squad is raising…
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SENIOR MENUS
May 20-27 All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville. Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance. The value of each meal is $5.10. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same…
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Red stickers pose danger to younger drivers
Courtney Lanza, South Brunswick This letter is in response to the efforts of Sen. Tom Goodwin to stop the red-sticker law. Though I am a college student and will not be required to put one of those red decals on my car as part of “Kyleigh’s Law,” the concept behind these identifiers still concerns me.…
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Wine and Words
By Laura Smelas Join the Friends of the Hopewell Public Library for a Wine and Words event to celebrate Princeton author and resident Jean Hanff Korelitz on Sunday, June 13th at the Princeton Elks Club in Blawenburg from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Jean Hanff Korelitz was raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare…
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HEALTH MATTERS: Preventing migraine pain
By John W. Vester, M.D. Special to The Packet Headaches will make millions of people throughout the country each year reach into their medicine cabinet in search of something to bring quick relief. For the occasional sufferer with a mild headache, aspirin or ibuprofen may work. But for those whose lives are…
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New Jersey wants schools to share services as Education Commissioner Schundler backs off forcing consolidations
OCEAN CITY — The state Department of Education has abandoned plans for school consolidations and will instead encourage school officials to s By centraljersey.com OCEAN CITY — The state Department of Education has abandoned plans for school consolidations and will instead encourage school officials to share services and find ways to operate more efficiently, Education…
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Student receives scholarship
Priya Kumar, of Robbinsville, a fourth-grader at Chapin School in Princeton, was recently awarded the Board of Trustees Scholarship for 2010 by the National Society for the Gifted and Talented. Chapin School reported that Priya is one of 10 students in the country to be awarded this prestigious scholarship. Each year, the award is given…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Council votes to cut $506K from school budget
Salaries of several top school administrators would be eliminated By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLLE — The Township Council targeted the jobs of several top school district administrators Tuesday when it voted to cut $506,096 from the defeated school budget during an emotional public hearing attended by about 200 people. The school board has set…
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GUEST OPINION: Repeal red decal requirement
Sen. Tom Goodwin, Hamilton May 1, every provisional driver in New Jersey who has not reached the age of 21 is required to affix a red decal to their license plate a scarlet letter announcement to the world that the car contains a young person. ”Kyleigh’s Law,” as the act is now called, was…
