Category: archives
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Library thankful for group’s donations
The Manville Public Library would like to thank Arthur Siegfried and the Raritan Valley Post Polio Support Group for donating $100 to the library in memory of our trustee Mr. John Shutack and $100 for the new carpet. Ed Smith Manville The writer is director of the Manville Public Library.
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South Brunswick students return to classrooms
Staff photo by John Keating Teacher Mona Reisman helps students on their first day at Greenbrook.
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State targets gang
by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer A Monmouth Junction man was charged Wednesday with dealing heroin and ecstasy following a state police investigation of the Bloods street gang. Tamir Styles, 31, of 106 Northumberland Way, was charged with 12 other alleged members of Bounty Hunters, a sect of the Bloods gang, according to a press release.…
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SPOTLIGHT: Such good taste! The Culinary Partnership sets a winning table
Special to The Ledger An evening inspired by the last year’s Taste of the Nation – Princeton has evolved into a very special event for the Lawrenceville Culinary Partnership. For a second year, chef-owners of local restaurants converged at the historic Stony Brook Settlement home of Bruce and Marcia Willsie in Princeton, also the…
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Editorial: State prison conditions deserve airing
It would be easy to laugh off the lawsuit filed by inmates at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, charging that the conditions of their confinement are unsafe, degrading, inhumane, unhealthy and unsanitary. As a rule, prison inmates are not the most reputable of plaintiffs nor, if their case ever comes to trial,…
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Residents question council on lack of cuts in budget
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer But councilman says many items already reduced in $13.4 million plan Several residents attended Monday’s Borough Council meeting to do what they didn’t do at last month’s special meeting when the Borough Council approved a $13.4 million budget, questioning why more cuts hadn’t been made to lower taxes. In the…
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Monroe names assistant superintendent
By Davy James, Staff Writer MONROE — The Board of Education voted unanimously to name Applegarth Middle School Principal Jeff Gorman the new assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum on Wednesday. Mr. Gorman replaces Christopher Tienken, who stepped down earlier this month to accept a position at Seton Hall University. ”Jeff is going to do…
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Hillsborough High School’s bigger band ready to compete
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer The Hillsborough High School Marching Band stood in an arch around director Jules Haran, on the football field, watching intently as she conducted the beat for the section of music it was about to play. The band members moved their feet in time with the music to mark what foot…
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Editorial: Reality check on Prohibition for ages 18-20
Backers of a new initiative to reconsider the nation’s drinking age argue that the current age of 21, essentially mandated by Congress in 1984 and accepted in all 50 states by 1988, has contributed to the problem of binge drinking on college campuses. A petition to that effect has been signed by 129 college presidents…
