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Capital Health Announces Free Prostate Cancer Screenings
By: Jason Stacchini Early detection and cancer screenings can save lives. Capital Health, the only hospital in central New Jersey that offers all prostate cancer treatment options is once again offering free prostate cancer screenings that will help save the lives of its neighbors. Residents across Mercer and Bucks counties can call Capital Health (1-800-255-3440)…
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LAWRENCE: Committee seeks nominations for eight awards
Lawrence Township’s Growth and Redevelopment Committee is seeking nominations for the 11th Annual Awards Program for Economic Development. These awards are presented each year to businesses, individuals, and civic groups that have enhanced the community in a special way: for job growth, expanding the tax base of the township, building or renovating a structure…
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Taxpayers don’t need another referendum
Susan H. Schnorbus, Bordentown Township At the pubic hearings for the new Bordentown Regional High School, we were assured by (then) Superintendent Palomano that, if the referendum passed, no further bond referendums would be needed for many years to come. Now I read that a new sports complex larger than the 333,000-square-feet of athletic fields,…
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LAWRENCE: Resident joins Teach Across America
Arthur Ernst of Lawrence has joined Teach For America, the national corps of top recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong advocates for educational equity. He is a 2005 graduate of Lawrence High School, and a 2009 graduate of Lafayette College. …
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FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: From the Aug. 6 edition
Peg Dotson Peg Dotson Tel: 499-3807 Fax: 499-3807 E-mail: [email protected] Children in grades four through eight are invited to join professional engineer and Roebling Museum staff on Saturday, Aug. 8, from 10 a.m. until noon for a bridge building workshop. The workshop will explore the many products made by the Roebling family…
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FLORENCE: Charter school readies for first year
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer FLORENCE With summer already nearing its end, the Riverbank Charter School of Excellence is gearing up for its first operating year. Administrators at the school have been busy hiring teachers, renovating the building, and dealing with the necessary paperwork, but with five classes already filled the prep work is…
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BORDENTOWN CITY: Food for the Soul festival promises diverse activities
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer BORDENTOWN CITY Hundreds of residents are expected to turn out this weekend to experience diverse cultures through fashion, food and music at the third annual Food for the Soul. ”The festival is really to celebrate the diverse culture that’s in Bordentown, and actually in New Jersey and all over,”…
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SENIOR MENUS
Aug. 6-13 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 $4.95. 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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HILLSBOROUGH: Teen talent wanted for library’s open mic night
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer The library is hoping to attract some young local talent with its first ever Teen Art Exhibit and Open Mic Night, to be held Aug. 18. ”It was conceived as a way of giving local teens a forum in which to display their artistic talents,” said Teen Librarian Elizabeth Erwin…
