Category: archives
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MANVILLE: Memorial Day’s real meaning
It’s more than the unofficial start to summer Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, is upon us. Time to get out the grill, invite the neighbors and have the first cookout of the season. Can’t you smell those hamburgers and hot dogs now? But let’s not lose sight that summer is not what we’re…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Groups hop to to support YMCA
Somerset Valley YMCA Running 101 class instructor Adele Morgan (far left) runs with Debbie Verwoerd, Mena Mastronardi, Karen Lambo, MaryAnn Fricke, Y trainer Ali Ibrahim and Diane Snyder in training for the Hillsborough Hop 5K. After the 9-week class, they’ll run as a team in the race.
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MERCER COUNTY NEWS: May 23
Hoopla streaming media comes to county library Mercer County Library System (www.mcl.org) has announced a new service for patrons that provides thousands of movies, television shows, audio books, and music albums, all available for mobile and online access through a new partnership with hoopla (hoopladigital.com). County Library System cardholders can download the free hoopla digital…
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LAMBERTVILLE: Veterans will get center stage in Monday observances
Opdyke, Hambach to be featured in Monday’s parade, speeches By John Tredrea, Special Writer During his tour of duty in the Air Force from 1951 to 1955, Charles R. Opdyke, who will be grand marshal of Lambertville’s Memorial Day parade on Monday, was stationed for three years with at Buttonwood Air Force Base in England…
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MANVILLE: Scouts replace flags on veterans’ graves
Manville Boy Scouts and leaders from Manville Troop 193 at the service activity replacing more than 1,500 torn American flags at local cemeteries.
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FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: May 22
By Peg Dotson The Roebling Garden Club will be conducting their annual Geranium Fundraiser to beautify the Roebling Circle. For a donation of $6 per plant, you can purchase a flower “In Honor of “ or “In Memory of” a loved one. Names will be published in this newspaper column at a future date. Also,…
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MERCER COUNTY NEWS: May 22
Hoopla streaming media comes to county library Mercer County Library System (www.mcl.org) has announced a new service for patrons that provides thousands of movies, television shows, audio books, and music albums, all available for mobile and online access through a new partnership with hoopla (hoopladigital.com). County Library System cardholders can download the free hoopla digital…
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MANVILLE: Who is tyrannizing whom, when it comes to guns?
Letter to the editor To the editor: Simply put (and repeated many, many times) our nation is experiencing an epidemic of gun violence. Our founding fathers conceived of the Second Amendment to give citizens the right (which "shall not be infringed") to own and bear arms against tyrants and tyrannical governments. They could not have…
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Watch for Those Orange Curbing Hunger Bags
Look for the bright-orange Curbing Hunger bags on your recycling bucket.
