Category: archives
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LAWRENCE: LHS sets a high standard
FOOTBALL By Tim Falls, Sports Editor The next football season is only nine months away. The Lawrence High School football team’s season has ended, but workouts are about to begin for next year. The year-round training is part of the Cardinals’ program. It’s a program that has kept Lawrence competitive and brought the Cardinals closer…
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School board briefs
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer Quality report, audit approved Approval ratings are through the roof, at least for the district’s audit report, the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability (QSAC) Continuum, and the 2009-2010 school calendar the board approved the three documents at their Nov. 17 meeting. The district’s annual audit returned with no recommendations,…
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Joseph Stadmueller Sr.
HILLSBOROUGH Joseph E. Stadmueller Sr. died Nov. 12 at Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough. He was 94. Born in Miltenburg, Germany, he came to the U.S. in 1928. Mr. Stadmueller served in the U.S. Army during World War II and became a U.S. citizen in 1942. Mr. Stadmueller operated Joe’s Garage on Zion…
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PRINCETON AREA: Merchants get ready to take holiday pulse
By Lauren Otis, The Packet Group As an economic crisis with few precedents swirls around them, Princeton area merchants are attempting to remain upbeat while adopting an attitude of extra vigilance in their own sales and marketing practices at the onset of the peak post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping season. ”Everybody’s nervous but everybody’s also optimistic, nobody’s…
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CRANBURY: First Aid Squad and FD need volunteers
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer CRANBURY — Representatives from the Cranbury Fire Department and First Aid Squad were on hand at Monday’s Township Committee meeting, making a request that highlighted the organizations’ need for more daytime volunteers. Charlie Smith, First Aid Squad captain and Fire Department president, asked members of the committee to emphasize the…
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Editorial: Gimmicks won’t solve crisis
Back during the 1990s, then-Gov. Christie Todd Whitman used an accounting trick to balance the state’s budget while slashing state income taxes. She revalued the state’s pension accounts, saying the booming stock market of the Clinton years meant that the pension accounts were worth more than the state’s actuaries were saying. That allowed her to…
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Fighting that traffic ticket
Catherine Kness of Trenton To the editor: For anyone who has ever suffered a traffic ticket on Bakers Basin Road associated with “No U-Turn” signs/Lawrence Township — this alert may perk your interest into action. Statute 39:4-197/Motor Vehicle & Traffic Regulation allows a municipality to install traffic control devices without implementing the DOT approval…
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LAWRENCE: Clean Elections final report expected in December
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The Clean Elections Committee, which had been charged with studying the issue of publicly financed municipal elections, expects to deliver a final report on its findings to Township Council next month. The advisory committee met last week, and agreed to write a short report for Township Council. The members agreed…
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Jean Golcheski
HILLSBOROUGH Jean (Stothard) Golcheski died Nov. 22, at home. She was 62. Mrs. Golcheski was a teacher for 30 years, teaching middle school in Montgomery Township for much of that time. She was an elder and a deacon at the Community Presbyterian Church of the Sand Hills in Kendall Park. She was instrumental in…
