Category: archives

  • To Your Health-Sept. 13, 2007

    Recognizing the symptoms of depression By Dr. Terry Shlimbaum    At one time or another, just about everyone will be faced with the “blues.”    Maybe we can identify the cause or perhaps it sneaks up on us at a time when everything “seems to be going so well.”    Maybe it lasts for a few days, or…

  • Country Fair offers prizes, activities, fun and more

    MONROE — As Monroe resident Heather Lopardo stood holding her young son, Ryan, at the Monroe Country Fair, she was surrounded by prizes. By Bill Greenwood, Staff Writer    Everything from a New York Giants poster autographed by Eli Manning to Webkins and Halloween decorations sat wrapped in plastic and scattered throughout 25 baskets on…

  • Community Day set for Saturday

       BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The annual Community Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 15 at the Senior Community Center in the rear of the building on Municipal Drive.    An opening ceremony will be held on the front lawn of the Community Center. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will…

  • Balance a key in NBC field hockey win

    By: Sean Moylan Sports Writer Although super sophomore Lauren Pigott assisted on a goal and scored two of the Northern Burlington County Regional High girls’ varsity field hockey team’s four goals in last Friday’s 4-1 opening win over Bordentown, she did not receive any of Greyhounds’ varsity head coach Joanne Hensch’s three post-game awards.    …

  • Projects may start this year

    Council to review pacts for library, community center By Bill Greenwood, Staff Writer  MONROE — The township is making progress on a new senior center and expansions to the library and community center.    Bids for construction of the library and community center expansions have been received, and Business Administrator Wayne Hamilton said he hopes contracts…

  • Balance a key in NBC field hockey win

    Sean Moylan Sports Writer Although super sophomore Lauren Pigott assisted on a goal and scored two of the Northern Burlington County Regional High girls’ varsity field hockey team’s four goals in last Friday’s 4-1 opening win over Bordentown, she did not receive any of Greyhounds’ varsity head coach Joanne Hensch’s three post-game awards.     That…

  • Committee mulls charter newsletter

    Attorney asked if township must mail pamphlet to voters By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    Township Committeeman Carl Suraci questioned at Tuesday’s meeting the need to approve a request from the Charter Study Commission to provide $7,000 to mail an educational pamphlet to all Hillsborough residents.    The planned pamphlet would detail the reasons for the commission’s…

  • Food 101: Grow it yourselves

    Ms. Schwab tends to a variety of tomatoes, basil, lettuces, edible flowers and other foods, whose seeds she planted last spring By: Katie Wagner Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski Princeton University junior Ruthie Schwab tends the garden project near Forbes College on Thursday morning.    A four-month stay at a Vermont farm during the end of…

  • Dunkin Donuts hearing set to resume amid legal wrangling

    Further testimony scheduled for New Hope council’s Sept. 19 meeting By Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — The Borough Council will continue a hearing next week for a controversial proposal to open a Dunkin’ Donuts, despite a recent legal maneuver that already claims victory for the franchise.    Attorney Martin King claimed victory in a newspaper notice…