Category: archives
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HILLSBOROUGH: School kids spell the darndest things
Radio personality Brad Blanks interviews third-grader Rebecca Locke, as another student waits his turn. Staff photo by Eileen Oldfield
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NEW HOPE: Toll bridge lanes set to reopen Oct. 3
The bridge’s right-hand lanes in both directions have been closed since November 2007 NEW HOPE — The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission has announced that it expects to once again allow travel on all four lanes of the New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge beginning this Saturday. The bridge’s right-hand lanes in both directions…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Football holds on for first win
Girls soccer team starting to build momentum By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor With Hopewell deep in its territory and threatening to take the lead, the Robbinsville High School football team desperately needed a great defensive stand in its home opener this past Saturday. It got three. Robbinsville used two sacks and two…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Curriculum changes vexing for board
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Changes in the state’s standards has board members on the committee reviewing the school district’s curriculum working on how best to address those changes. The new graduation requirements specify exact courses students must take to graduate, rather than stating the number of credits or years students must spend learning certain…
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O’Sullivan-Roche raises hand and lifts Cards
By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor Dana Williams showed up for her first day of practice as the new Lawrence High varsity girls soccer coach, and saw she didn’t have a goalkeeper. So, common sense led to the next move. ”We basically said ‘Who wants to try goalie?’” Williams said. “And then we tested them all…
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Hillsborough Hurricanes ‘Black’ Swim Team
By Donna Dass Somerset Valley YMCA’s Hillsborough Hurricanes “black” summer swim team is approaching the end of the regular season and the beginning of championships undefeated with a dual meet record of 9-0. The team will swim its final dual meet this Wednesday night against Metuchen. In addition, fourteen individual records and five relay records have…
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New Heartwarming Thanksgiving Children’s Book
By: Darcie Mae New holiday book now available. (A quote from the book is on the Mother Mouse Thanksgiving page on the authors website.) Press Release: Children’s Book: Full Color Mother Mouse Tells Mice Kids A Thanksgiving Story By: Darcie Mae 8 ½ x 11in. 55 pages $11.99 ISBN# 978-1-936046-30-0 Mirror Publishing: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Author’s Website: This…
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IRS Filing Extension Deadline Looms for 295,000 New Jerseyans
By Gregg Semanick-Local IRS Spokesperson MOUNTAINSIDE The extension is additional time to file a tax return, not additional time to pay. Taxpayers requesting additional time during the tax filing season automatically were granted a six-month extension to file their tax return. Taxpayers who have yet to complete their tax return are encouraged to use IRS…
