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  • LAWRENCE: Middle School escapes ‘No-Child Left Behind’ list

    LAWRENCE: Middle School escapes ‘No-Child Left Behind’ list

    Lawrence Middle School has been removed from the ‘needs improvement’ category under the No Child Left Behind Act. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • ROBBINSVILLE – Proposed ethics board, ‘dirty laundry’ aired at meeting

    By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The most recent Township Council meeting once again came to a point of contention as members argued about the possible creation of an ethics board and revisited the issue of alleged impropriety.    In light of recent disagreements amongst council members, Councilwoman Sonja Walter recommended the township create a…

  • Development may get a second chance

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — A never-completed townhouse development on Cranbury Station Road could be getting a second chance at life.    But a plan to double its originally intended size was recently met with some criticism at a meeting of the Planning Board.    A representative of Williamstown-based Community Development Initiative Partners told the…

  • ‘Trashy’ assignment aids bio-tech lessons

    by Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Half a peanut butter sandwich, apple cores, banana peels, moldy rolls — it’s just trash, except to students in Timothy Zavacki’s industrial technology class at Hillsborough High School.    For them, last night’s leftovers are the beginning of nutrient-loaded soil made in a composter the teacher built last year.    ”This is…

  • Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house

    Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house

    The 20-year project restoring the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Bachman-Wilson House in Millstone Borough earned Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, of Tarantino Studio, the first-ever preservation award from a state architechture association. Staff photo by John Patten

  • Hillsborough vet feted at Disney World

    Hillsborough vet feted at Disney World

    John Giordano holds the flag presented to him, as his wife, Annita, holds the plaque he received as Disney World’s Veteran for the Day on Veterans Day. Photo courtesy of the Giordano family.

  • Windsor-Hights Herald moving to new office

    To our readers:   On Dec. 5, the staff of the Windsor-Hights Herald will relocate to the main offices of The Princeton Packet Inc. in Princeton.    ”We will continue to have our reporters and editors in the communities they cover as often as possible,” said Aubrey Huston, editor of the Packet newspapers. “But the economic…

  • Local woman on Obama’s transition team

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Township resident and state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson will be part of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, according to a DEP spokeswoman.    Ms. Jackson will be on the energy and natural resources transition team, said DEP spokeswoman Elaine Makatura confirmed this week. There…

  • Robin Road resident taken into custody after standoff

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    HILLSBOROUGH — A Robin Road resident was transported to Somerset Medical Center for evaluation today (Thursday) after a two-and-a-half hour standoff in his home that later resulted in the seizure of eight weapons.    Police responded to a call at 2:54 a.m. from the wife of 55-year-old Richard Cooper that he…