Category: archives
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ALLENTOWN: Village Initiative looking ahead, preserving past
By David Kilby, Special Writer ALLENTOWN — The Allentown Village Initiative has been hard at work in its efforts to enhance the borough’s setting and natural and historic assets. Established last year, the Allentown Village Initiative (AVI) consists of dozens of volunteers that seek to improve community life, especially in the borough’s downtown area, in…
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Community Park Elementary Students Complete Recycled Wall Mural and Join Eco-Schools USA
By Community Park Elementary Students Complete Recycled Wall Mural and Join Eco-Schools USA Eco-Schools USA Welcomes Its 13th Eco-School in Mercer County Princeton, NJ. May 23, 2014 n Students at Community Park Elementary School in Princeton are into recycling – but not just the kind that ends in the recycling plant. Community Park students are…
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FLORENCE: Town clerk recognized for service
By Amy Batista, Special Writer FLORENCE — Officials honored Township Clerk Joy Weiler for her longtime service to the community in recognition of Municipal Clerks Week. ”Well, Joy, I have a little surprise for you,” said Mayor Craig Wilkie during the council meeting on May 7. “You know you’ve been doing this job a long…
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CALENDAR: May 23
Free Acoustic Open Mic Night and Poetry at Star Subs and Café in the Buckley Plaza 621 Route 130, Hamilton, will be hosted Wednesdays at 7 p.m. by American Idol contestant Bri Lobue. Audience and musicians are welcome. 609-333- 1230. Mondays Free Memoir Writing Classes. All welcome. Every Monday 1:30 –4 p.m., Main floor Teen…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Community thanked for generosity
To the editor: On behalf of Mercer Street Friends, I extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the caring people who placed food donations by their mailboxes on Saturday, May 10 for pick up by their letter carrier as part of the National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Once again,…
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REGIONAL: 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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HIGHTSTOWN: Borough forms arts commission
By Jenine Clancy, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council passed an ordinance on Monday to establish a cultural arts commission, to create more space for art in town. The commission would be made up of nine members, each appointed by the council, according to the ordinance approved during the meeting. One member of the…
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STATE WE’RE IN: A loss of wildlife and public trust
By Michele Byers New Jersey’s Green Acres Program wisely expanded the Menantico Ponds Wildlife Management Area in Cumberland County last summer with the purchase of 80 acres of forest, bringing the total preserve to 474 acres. Wildlife management areas in this state were in are some of our most rugged and untamed lands, and this…
