Category: archives
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State Library Honors Cranbury Library for Excellence in Digital Storytelling
By Gary Cooper Seven libraries from around New Jersey were recognized for excellence in digital storytelling by the New Jersey State Library at an Academy Award-like ceremony at the NJ State Museum Auditorium, Trenton, on September 15. Receiving awards for their outstanding participation in the State Library’s Tell Us Your Story Video Competition were: 1st…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Board ponders steps to goals
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer The district’s strategic plan and annual goals and objectives show a vision, but board member Marc Rosenberg wanted to know how does the district attain that vision? Mr. Rosenberg, who participated in the community group creating the plan, said the two-page document named important and valuable goals, but did…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Student groups short of goals on state tests
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Standardized test scores for students in the special education subgroups in grades three through 11 concern the district this year because none of the groups reached Adequate Yearly Progress benchmarks on the language arts and literacy exams or the math exams. But Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Lisa Antunes noted at…
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GROWING SKIN CANCER INCIDENCE PROMPTS CENTRAL NJ DERMATOLOGISTS TO ADD SURGICAL SPECIALIST MATT HALPERN, M.D.
Matt Halpern, MD, specializes in Mohs Skin Cancer Surgery at Windsor Dermatology
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ROBBINSVILLE: District says new school is definitely needed
So, too, is about $7 million for Sharon school By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE With a projected enrollment increase of about 20 percent over the next five years, the need for a new school is clear, and it should be built next to the Pond Road Middle School. That was the message…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Wedding held at Howell Farm plow match
Bride Mary Ellen Tolmie, of Delaware Township, couldn’t have been happier with the way her special day turned out By Linda Seida, Staff Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — The wedding venue had no picturesque gazebo, no fancy caterer to ply guests with champagne and hors d’oeuvres, not even a hall or dining room. The bride and…
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NEW HOPE: Former officer charged with computer crime
Offenses stem from traffic stop in which a woman’s cell phone was used to send an “explicit picture,” according to a court document By Linda Seida, Staff Writer NEW HOPE — A former New Hope Borough and Solebury Township part-time police officer has been charged with unlawful use of a computer and related offenses that…
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Historic Kingston house finds new life as Asian-inspired wellness center
By Darby Mackenzie Line When Jedediah Higgins built his home at what is now the intersection of Route 27 and Raymond Road in Kingston, he could not have imagined that some 300 years later there would be a Japanese-style spa garden in his back yard. But if he were around today, he might well be…
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BORDENTOWN CITY: Area mourns a special friend who died at 36
Former Bordentown City resident Colleen Jones Anderson, who died Sept. 7 of liver and colon cancer.
