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  • SCHOOL ELECTION:

    South Hunterdon HS budget defeated    The Hopewell Valley Regional School District’s budget won approval by a narrow margin in Tuesday’s election. With just under 21 percent of the district’s voters casting ballots, the budget won by 105 votes. The $59,554,967 spending plan received 1,632 yes votes and 1,527 no votes.    Judith Lindenberger, Armelle Daniels and…

  • SCHOOL ELECTION:

    Hopewell budget passes narrowly By John Tredrea    The Hopewell Valley Regional School District’s budget won approval by a narrow margin in Tuesday’s election. With just under 21 percent of the district’s voters casting ballots, the budget won by 105 votes. The $59,554,967 spending plan received 1,632 yes votes and 1,527 no votes.    Judith Lindenberger, Armelle…

  • Budget defeated by voters

       Voters defeated the proposed $18.3 million school budget by a wide margin on Tuesday.    With 15 percent of Manville’s registered voters casting ballots, the budget received 269 votes in favor of it — but 407 votes against it.    Joseph Lukac, Jeanne Lombardino and Heidi Alles won their bids for seats on the Board of Education.…

  • ‘Street Kings’

    ‘Street Kings’

    Amaury Nolasco, Keanu Reeves and John Corbett in ‘Street Kings’

  • Fans in stands should beware

    Kevin Kerod of Montgomery     Every spring brings the beginning of baseball season. Families, organizations and thousands of children will attend minor league baseball games in New Jersey.    Protect your family behind the safety screening at these games. If your children are attending field trips to these stadiums be sure to check with the organization…

  • ‘Street Kings’

    ‘Street Kings’

    There’s a gun or a body in every car trunk, a double-cross around every corner and plenty of colorful characters. By Elise Nakhnikian    WE’RE the police. We can do whatever we want,” says Detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) in Street Kings. “Doesn’t matter what happens: It’s how we write it up.”    Reeves’ Tommy (as most…

  • SCHOOL ELECTION:

    Stockton Borough School budget passes     The Stockton Borough School’s budget passed 57-46.     Unopposed for a three-year term on the Board of Education, David Pasicznyk received 59 votes.    

  • ‘Smart People’

    This works on a purely character-based level, even though it milks some of the oldest Hollywood cliches. By Bob Brown STORIES about damaged people who don’t magically transform into much better people, but are sympathetic nonetheless, are rare. But they can be affecting, maybe because they resemble a reality we know. This is how first-time…

  • Breaking: Jamesburg voters reject budget

    JAMESBURG – Borough voters rejected a $11.5 million school spending plan by a vote of 114 to 143, Tuesday. The budget carried a spending increase of about $1.25 million from last year.           Under the proposed budget, the school tax rate would have increased to $2.830 per $100 of assessed valuation. At that rate, the…