Category: archives
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Habitat has high hopes for Hightstown
Housing group eyes South Academy Street By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor HIGHTSTOWN – The area affiliate of Habitat for Humanity would like to get started on its first Hightstown house. Tony Infosino, the site selection chairman for the Millstone Basin affiliate of Habitat, told the Planning Board on Monday that a borough-owned lot at 250…
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BRHS senior girls ready to make soccer statement
BY: Sean Moylan Sports Writer 2008 was set up to be a special year for the Bordentown Regional High girls’ varsity soccer team the moment Scotties’ head coach Dominick Castaldo decided to keep a large group of sophomores on his varsity roster two years ago. This season Bordentown has a dozen seniors on…
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NBC football playoff push starts Friday night
BY: Sean Moylan Sports Writer When Jon Reising took over as the Northern Burlington County Regional High varsity football head coach seven years ago, he and his Greyhounds were greeted by a new, more difficult schedule loaded down with several powerful football squads. But over the past couple of seasons NBC has switched…
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Advocate for agriculture
West Amwell man forms nonprofit to promote farming By Linda Seida WEST AMWELL In the film “Miss Congeniality,” the main character is a fish out of water, a nerdy federal agent posing undercover as a beauty pageant contestant. At one point she is asked to explain why New Jersey, where she claims to be…
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West Amwell sets hearing on well-protection plan
By Linda Seida WEST AMWELL A public hearing delayed for four months will be held next week to discuss a proposed ordinance to protect drinking water aquifers. Residents will be able to ask questions and submit comments during the Township Committee meeting Wednesday. The meeting will begin at 7:45 p.m. at the township building,…
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the Sept. 11 edition
Little League Bordentown Little League is currently registering players for the 2008 Fall Baseball season. This program is open to boys that turn 7 by April 30, 2009 and don’t turn 13 until after April 30, 2009. The cost of the program is $50 ($70 for players that did not participate in the Spring…
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GUEST OPINION: Inconvenient truth about a lower drinking age
By Stephen Wallace of SADD Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopardizing young lives at a critical juncture in their physical, social, and…
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School board approves fuel station settlement
By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer The East Windsor Regional school board unanimously approved a settlement this week under which East Windsor will pay $20,782 and Hightstown $3,275 in money owed by the towns for a fueling station run by the district and used by all three entities. The amounts are much less than first…
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Catherine Breuer
Princeton Art Museum and Trinity Church volunteer HIGHTSTOWN Catherine Breuer died on Monday at Meadow Lakes. Mrs. Breuer was born in Ottawa, Ont., the daughter of the late John Goodwill Macphail and Georgina Gertrude Macphail. She attended Elmwood School, graduating with highest honors, and made her debut in Ottawa in 1930. In 1937 she…
