Category: archives
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Final countdown to opening bell
Teachers have been getting ready for the first day, too. By: Madeleine Johnson Not all of the new faces in the South Brunswick schools will be those of students approximately 65 new teachers are looking forward to their first day of school, too. "It’s really exciting," Monmouth Junction second-grade teacher Alana Black said on…
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"Dangerous Women Two"
70 women artist’s interpret the works of 70 women activists, artists and adventurers from the last 100 years. The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, will hold an opening reception for "Dangerous Women Two" from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8. The exhibit, which premiered Sept. 4, will run through…
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Coviello expects gridiron progress to continue
HHS FOOTBALL PREVIEW By: John E. Powers In his first season as head football coach at Hillsborough High last fall, Vinnie Coviello watched his team struggle early, and then eventually become comfortable with an entirely new scheme. When the second year of the Coviello era begins Friday night at Noonan Field against Piscataway, the…
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AHS boys’ cross country hopes to move up in CVC pack
By: Kyle Moylan The season hasn’t started and Doug Hunt already sees that his team is in the middle of the pack and trying to work its way forward as quickly as possible. The Allentown High School boys’ cross country team will open the season Saturday at the Knights Invitational at West Windsor High School.…
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Letters (09.06.07)
Resident throws support at GOP candidate To the Editor: Year after year nothing changes on the Lawrence Township Council. The same old cabal pays more attention to the big money and party machinery than to those they have been elected to represent. Acres of open space on Princeton Pike lie under contaminated dredge spoils placed…
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Football Preview: Redbirds building for future
By: Kyle Moylan Every journey whether it’s around the world or around the corner has to start with a step. The Allentown High School football team knows where it’s been and where it wants to go. All that remains to be decided is how long will it take to get there. Step. Step.…
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NBC’s good cross country teams hope to get better
Sean Moylan Sports Writer With a brilliant time of 16:37.68 (5:21.2 average mile), Mike Bowden placed third at last year’s Group III Central Jersey Cross Country Sectionals. But ever since he was a freshman at Northern Burlington County Regional High, Bowden has been winning races and improving his times from week to week. He…
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MEA, school board to meet mediator Monday
Salary increases and benefits are the main issues unresolved between the board and the union. By: Eileen Oldfield The Board of Education and the Manville Education Association (MEA) have tentatively planned to meet with a mediator Monday to continue the teachers’ contract negotiations, said district Superintendent Donald Burkhardt. The meeting will include representatives of the…
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Book Notes
George’s kids go somewhere By: Joan Ruddiman When the manager of a bookstore calls in sick in order to finish a book, take note of the title! My good friend and former teaching partner Marilyn had just returned from a trip to Alaska with this book in hand. It was a gift from her niece…
