Category: archives
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School board’s ad plan gets nod
By Davy James MONROE The Board of Education approved a plan Wednesday to allow corporate sponsorship of the high school’s athletic fields, which it hopes will raise money for numerous district programs. ”Corporate sponsorship would alleviate the stress of continuing programs that we want to continue, but don’t have the necessary funding to support,”…
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Pet peeved
Some suggest caution over call for animal ‘guardianship’ By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor HIGHTSTOWN — One simple word — “guardian” — carries a lot of weight for animal activists and others who fear its legal baggage. And it may have led this week to the start of — pardon the expression — a dogfight. Phyllis…
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Town zoning laws to be focus of probe
By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer ROOSEVELT The beleaguered borough got another shot of bad news as officials have learned they will be the focus of a federal Department of Justice investigation. The probe will seek to determine if the borough’s zoning and land use laws violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act…
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Walter L. Myers Jr.
Walter L. Myers Jr., 88, died Saturday, Jan. 5. Mr. Myers Jr. was born Nov. 12, 1919. He was the youngest of five children born to Walter and Pricilla Myers of Philadelphia and graduated from West Philadelphia High School in 1934 at the age of 15, along with the author Jacqueline Susan. After high school…
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Mary Marsicano
Retired taxi driver MONTGOMERY — Mary Finc Marsicano died Dec. 22 at Meadow Lakes Healthcare in Hightstown. She was 92. Born in Lackawanna, Pa., she had lived in Manville before moving to Montgomery 18 years ago. Mrs. Marsicano was a retired taxi driver and worked for Lefty’s Taxi formerly of Manville. She was a…
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Composer Hatfield to work with Hopewell Valley students
Close to 500 choristers from Timberlane Middle School and Central High School will participate in the making of “Floating Upstream: Hopewell Sings Hatfield 2008” Composer Stephen Hatfield returns to Hopewell Valley next week to work with middle and high school choral students. The visit will include conducting them in a professional recording session. Close to…
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High prices fueling motorists’ frustration
By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer With the cost of crude oil hovering around $100 a barrel, area motorists and gas stations are feeling the heat at the pumps. Har Jeet, manager of the Exxon station on Route 130 in East Windsor, said this week that business is slow, thanks to the steadily high prices.…
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Registration begins for Princeton Adult School
PRINCETON — Registration is under way for the spring 2008 semester at the Princeton Adult School. Offerings this year range from Italian opera, gourmet cooking, and hiking to a lecture series about politics and religion in which faculty from Princeton and Rutgers universities will explore the age-old tensions between church and state with both a…
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Holiday recycling
Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, recycling in Lambertville scheduled for Jan. 21 will be picked up the following week on Jan. 28. The mailing of the 2008 trash and recycling schedule for the city will be delayed until after the introduction of 2008 municipal budget. The pickup schedule remains the same…
