Category: archives
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Community Calendar from the May 29 edition
Spring Cleanup Friday, May 23, to Sunday, June 1 — The Northern Burlington Regional Parent and Teacher Society will sponsor the annual Spring Cleanup. Drop off donations for the clothing drive in plastic garbage bags all day and evening at Middle School Barn, Island Road. If doors are not open, bags can be left outside.…
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EDITORIAL – Board members need to take a ‘time out’
When those charged with guiding our community’s future leaders get caught up in their own personal tit-for-tats, it is those charges who suffer most. Such seems to be the case with an ongoing feud between a one-year Board of Education member and, well, seemingly everyone else, at least everyone else involved with the Board of…
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Robbinsville girls win CJ Group I track title
Sean Moylan Sports Writer On Saturday at Hillsborough, the Robbinsville High girls’ varsity track and field squad pulled together all of its collective resources to accomplish the greatest feat in the school’s short athletic history by tying New Providence for the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I Sectional title. “For our school, athletics- wise,…
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Alcohol may be linked to railroad deaths
Allan Mazur, South 11th Avenue Back in the 1950s, when I was growing up in town, there were four sets of railroad track. We crossed them twice daily; sometimes more. We used the track as balance beams. We had our pennies squished under the engine wheels. We searched for quartz in the granite bed. And…
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Church helps Intervention Trust Fund
by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer One South Brunswick house of worship is showing that church donation can be a two-way street. On Sunday, the South Brunswick Church of the Nazarene will be presenting a $5,000 donation to the township’s social services department. The money will be used as part of the Human Intervention Trust Fund,…
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May 29, 2008
Veronica Abramczyk Veronica J. “Ronnie” Abramczyk, of Lawrence, died May 21 at St. Francis Medical Center. She was 85. Born in Trenton, Mrs. Abramczyk resided in Lawrence for 60 years. She was formerly employed by Tasty East and the Trenton Cigar Factory. She retired after 30 years with General Motors in Ewing Township. She was…
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A lesson in giving big
by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer Oprah Winfrey is getting out of the Big Give business, but the students of Crossroads North Middle School are just getting in. This year, the students’ annual philanthropy program will benefit a local family in need of a financial jump-start. The plan is to raise money for a mother and…
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Emily L. Walsh
FLORENCE Emily L. Walsh (nee Longshore), 88, of Florence died May 19 at home. Born in Trenton and raised in Titusville, she has been a Florence resident for over 60 years. Mrs. Walsh was a member of St. Clare’s Church for Florence and its Altar and Rosary Society. She was a daily communicant at…
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No word on borough’s cut aid
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer Many municipal officials around the state received a nice message from state government last week, informing them that state aid cut earlier in the year would be restored. However, Manville officials didn’t get such a message. Because the town’s population is 300 more than 10,000, the amount of state aid…
