Category: archives
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A step in time
Camp gets marching band ready for competitive season. By: Eileen Oldfield You may hear the drums and trumpets as the marchers parade down Main Street on Memorial Day, or you may see the swish of the color guard’s flags as it struts onto the field for a football game’s halftime show. Despite the seemingly effortless…
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Vikings try to figure out tennis lineup as season approaches
By: Rich Fisher It’s cutdown week on the South Brunswick High tennis courts, as coach Nancy McDonald tries to whittle approximately 10 players down to a seven-girl starting lineup. This week and next week will feature ladder challenge matches as the Vikes try to replace four graduated starters and, for a little while at least,…
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Rommel retires
Public relations director, once a student, to step down after 35 years with Rider University By: Lea Kahn When Earle Rommel arrived on the Rider University campus in 1963, he thought he would spend four years at the school and graduate, then go on to a sports writing career for a newspaper. Little did Mr.…
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Harry Rubel
Harry Rubel, 92, an actor, director, filmmaker, photographer and artist of Kendall Park, died of heart failure Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He was born in New Brunswick on Dec. 24, 1914, where his father and mother, David and Janet, operated a family store on lower Church Street. He spent…
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Wednesday’s state attorney general directive.
Requiring law enforcement officials to inquire about suspects’ legal residence status in some cases – has left Princeton’s two police chiefs with questions and immigrant advocates with concerns. Issued by state Attorney General Anne Milgram in the wake the arrest of illegal immigrants in connection to the murder of three Newark college students, the directive…
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Field Hockey Season Preview:Youth will be served in New Egypt
By: Kyle Moylan Since it started as a field hockey program, the numbers have come in terms of both players and wins for the New Egypt High School field hockey team. New Egypt started as a freshman program in 1999. "When I stepped on the field for the first day of practice, I had six…
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Valley’s elementary leaders discuss school-year highlights
Hopewell Valley’s four elementary schools will begin the school year on Sept. 6. Principals of the schools Bruce Arcurio, Christine Laquidara, Steve Wilfing and Dan Umstead have outlined some of the new year’s highlights and introduced new staff members By Ruth Luse BEAR TAVERN ELEMENTARY Principal Arcurio reports that Bear Tavern Elementary, which…
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Back to School: Officials, parents aim for equilibrium in Plumsted
By: Cara Latham PLUMSTED Amid concerns from parents about stability at the high school, the school board has hired an interim principal and a new business administrator. The board on Aug. 22 hired Elizabeth Panella as the interim principal of New Egypt High School at a salary of $500 a day. It also hired…
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Schools’ tests scores achieve NCLB goals
All subgroups received passing designations in all test areas under No Child Left Behind standards. By: Eileen Oldfield With all test scores reported, Hillsborough schools received passing designations for all subgroups in all test areas under No Child Left Behind standards, Superintendent Edward Forsthoffer said at the Aug. 20 Board of Education meeting. Preliminary test…
