Category: archives
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HILLSBOROUGH: High school’s math contest adds up
Sophomores (left to right) Erika Ramos and Eric Wang, and junior Alex Block, provided the winning entries in the competition using art or language to express mathematical concepts.
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MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school
Karen Ziemianek serves cookies while reading Robert Munsch’s “Get Out of Bed” during Weston School’s storytelling event. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara
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MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Teachers say reading to children is the best way to get kids interested in books, and to prove the point, the Manville Education Association held its annual storytelling event at Weston School on April 23. More than 25 employees of the school district spent an hour reading to students…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Police Beat
The resident of a home in the 200 block of Sunset Avenue reported April 29 that her daughter had taken her 1997 Honda Civic. The mother said she had given her daughter permission to take the vehicle, valued at $4,500, on April 11, but that it had not been returned. * * * Amy Galarza,…
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Winning CMS 6th graders highlight a Holocaust hero:
By Winning CMS 6th graders highlight a Holocaust hero: Community Middle School 6th graders Alisha Kanitkar and Shruti Marathe won the National History Day New Jersey State Championship in the grades 6-8, group exhibit category. This year’s contest theme was "The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies." Alisha and Shruti’s winning exhibit, titled "Raoul Wallenberg…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Town’s insurance claims, rates drop
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer In a presentation about insurance savings in Hillsborough, Michael Smith, the township’s risk management consultant, announced April 28 that, with its lowered lost time ratio from on-the-job injuries in 2008, Hillsborough is one of the three safest municipalities for workers among the towns included in the Central Jersey Joint Insurance…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: EWRSD ex-special ed consultant defrauded district
TRENTON A woman employed as a learning disabilities teacher consultant by the East Windsor Regional School District in 2008 was sentenced Thursday to six months in county prison for using forged and fraudulent documents to obtain her position, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. said. Morgan E. Lang, 26, of Carteret,…
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BORDENTOWN: Baseball clinches spot in the state playoffs
By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor With two dominating wins this past week, the Bordentown High School baseball team improved to 9-5 and clinched a spot in the state playoffs. “The team has a good mix of players and I feel that if the team works hard, stays positive and focuses we can do…
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MANVILLE: School lunch price increase set
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer For the first time in more than eight years, school lunch prices in all district schools will increase. The Board of Education unanimously approved the price increases last month. Though the increases are being approved for 2009-2010, Pomptonian, Inc., the district’s food service provider, and administrators predicted the price changes…
