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  • FUTURE FARMERS: High School Officer Biographies

        Nathan Potts, the 2008 Northern Burlington FFA chapter treasurer, said being an FFA member is a family thing. He has been active with the Northern Burlington Chapter since elementary school because his mother is one of the chapter advisors. Nathan said learning is so easy in the ag classes and the FFA because everything…

  • FUTURE FARMERS: Students harvest 17 acres

    By Levi Wainwright    If hands-on experience is the best teacher, the students in the Northern Burlington Agriculture program learn a great deal through the Crop Demonstration program supervised by Mike Hlubik and Bill Hilgendorff. These ag teachers, along with local agribusinessmen, supervise interested students in the choice, planning, planting, care, and harvesting.    The 17-acre crop…

  • FUTURE FARMERS: Petting zoo raises money

    FUTURE FARMERS: Petting zoo raises money

    By Gillian Armstrong    For the past two years the NBC high school FFA Chapter has held a petting zoo as part of National FFA Week. The chapter uses one of the shop areas for the petting zoo; clearing it out to fit four animal pens and two tables. This year the animals included were: a…

  • LAWRENCE: Green Building Expo shows sustainability within reach

    LAWRENCE: Green Building Expo shows sustainability within reach

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer With her 3-year-old son at her side, Deborah Aubert Thomas wandered from exhibit to exhibit Saturday morning, checking out what each one had to offer at Sustainable Lawrence’s Green Building Expo.     Ms. Aubert Thomas paused for a few minutes at RiverStone Cabinetry’s booth, which specializes in kitchen and bathroom…

  • ‘Race to Witch Mountain’

    ‘Race to Witch Mountain’

    This deeply cynical movie is not just lifeless; it is anti-life By Elise Nakhnikian CRAMMED full of shock-and-awe music, Glock-toting SWAT teams, Road Warrior-style car chases, and Darth Vader-looking alien assassins, Race to Witch Mountain is a Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay-style testosterone fest on training wheels. Would someone please tell me who decided it’s OK to…

  • NEW HOPE: Kozuhowski lauded for ‘heads-up’ police work

    NEW HOPE: Kozuhowski lauded for ‘heads-up’ police work

    Photo by Gordon Nieburg: Shown are (from left): Chief Michael Cummings, Officer Kenneth Kozuhowski and Mayor Laurence Keller.

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Schools leader tabbed

    by Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The school district plans to hire a township resident and assistant superintendent from the West Windsor-Plainsboro district as its new leader.    Steve Mayer, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the WW-P district, confirmed Tuesday that he will soon succeed Jack Szabo as superintendent.    ”It’s very exiting. Robbinsville…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Yearlong anniversary gets started

    ROBBINSVILLE: Yearlong anniversary gets started

    Cathy Lubbe, Kendall Johnson, 12, Julianna Lubbe, 11, Councilwoman Sonja Walter and Jean Ward check out a cake for Robbinsville’s 150th anniversary. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Township gets ‘Green’

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    As the cold of winter makes way for warmer temperatures, help is needed to perform a township-wide spring cleaning to help pick up a winter’s worth of litter left on community roadways.    The South Brunswick Township Recycling Program is beginning its annual volunteer litter cleanup to celebrate Earth Day, which…