Category: archives
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Capital Health Treats First Patient Using Innovative Treatment for Stroke, Brain Conditions
By Jason Stacchini TRENTON, NJ –The first patient in the region was recently treated using Capital Health’s new state-of-the-art biplane angiographic system that will provide faster and more accurate vascular care. The new system dramatically improves the ability of neurosurgeons to see blood vessels and conduct complex, minimally invasive procedures in the brain to treat aneurysms, anteriovenous…
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MILLSTONE: Merging of courts eyed
by Peter Geier, Special Writer MILLSTONE — The township has been awarded an $18,900 state grant to help it, Upper Freehold and Roosevelt find ways to share their court and other municipal services and save money. The Millstone grant award was among a total of more than $160,000 in Sharing Available Resources Efficiently grants statewide…
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the Feb. 19 edition
Photography exhibit Through Friday, Feb. 20 — Crafts Creek Spring Hill Brook Watershed Association will present a photography exhibit, “A Portrait of Mansfield Township” at the Mansfield Municipal Building, 24548 E. Main St., Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Feb. 20. A reception for the photographers will be held Friday, Jan.…
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MANVILLE: Schools miss tests’ language, literacy goals
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Two Manville schools missed Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals on the state’s standardized tests, according to the New Jersey School Report Card, but administrators are optimistic a second assessment of the scores may change the schools’ grades. The New Jersey School Report Card, released Feb. 4, classified Alexander Batcho Intermediate…
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PTO needs your support
Gina G. Gerstein, of Dayton I am writing this in an attempt to shed some awareness on a recent problem we are facing in our school district. I’ve been a resident of South Brunswick over 10 years and I’ve witnessed a steady decline in PTO involvement on every school level, from elementary through high school.…
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N.J. report cards give student measurement data
Beacon area schools included By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor The New Jersey Department of Education recently released its 2008 school report cards and statewide assessment reports. The report cards contain detailed statistical profiles of all public schools in the state in the areas of school environment, student information, student performance indicators, staff information, and district/charter…
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LAWRENCE: Festive welcome for Year of the Ox
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer What do Johann Sebastian Bach, Walt Disney, Richard Nixon, Napoleon Bonaparte and Vincent Van Gogh have in common? Simple. If they had been born in China, they would have been born in the Year of the Ox. So said Rider University President Mordechai Rozanski, as he welcomed visitors to…
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LAWRENCE: Festive welcome for Year of the Ox
Hong Hong makes a door ornament for the door at her house. It means "happiness wherever you go." Staff photo by John Keating.
