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Parents, students get ready for a new school year
By: Madeleine Johnson With the first day of school just around the corner, parents and students are rushing to round up the back-to-school essentials. For some, back-to-school shopping has become a tradition. Dara Valiant, of Jamesburg, has three school-age sons: Michael and Massimo will be attending Monroe Township High School as a sophomore and freshman,…
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Final payment ready for Rocky Hill’s Van Horne Park
A big patch of green for a small town By: Katie Wagner ROCKY HILL The borough is getting ready to pay its final portion of the costs necessary for completing development of Van Horne Park. Approximately $70,000 will go toward the remaining items needed to be added to the park. That amount represents 20…
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Corzine signs bill that boosts effort to tax PU eating club
Borough officials expect more legal action by Cottage Club in tax-exempt status issue By: Nick Norlen Tuesday’s signing by Gov. Jon Corzine of a bill clarifying historical property-tax exemptions is another step in Princeton Borough’s battle with the Cottage Club, but borough officials said Thursday that they expect litigation with the Princeton University student eating…
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Sights, sounds, tastes of India!
Fifth annual Grand Indo-American Fair coming to Mercer County Park By: Michael Redmond The fifth annual Grand Indo-American Fair – Mela 2007 – will take place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2, at Mercer County Park, accessible from Hughes Drive in Hamilton. If past festivals are any guide, thousands of people will be turning…
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Educators may attend Internet safety training
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer Superintendent Donald Burkhardt may consider having district teachers and administrators attend Internet safety awareness seminars that the state is offering this fall. The program, which the state Department of Education and the state attorney general’s office began planning earlier this month, focuses on the dangers of social networking sites, including…
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OBITUARIES
For the week of Aug. 23 Ivan Filimonchuk HILLSBOROUGH Ivan Filimonchuk died Aug. 16 at Hunterdon Medical Center in Hunterdon. He was 83. Born in Vasylivka, Ukraine, he had been a resident of Hillsborough for the past 30 years. Mr. Filimonchuk worked as an engineer for the U.S. government at the Picatinny Arsenal in…
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Cranbury planners, zoners seeking attorney
Joseph Stonaker set to retire. By: Megan DeMarco The township Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment are looking for a new attorney. Joseph Stonaker, who has served in the post for both boards for more than 20 years, will be retiring as soon as a qualified replacement is found. The board is hoping to…
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Letters for week of Aug. 24
By: There’s no doubt chickens came first To the editor: Thank you for bringing attention to the disturbing chicken and rat situation on Stockton Street in Hightstown with your unbiased article in last Friday’s Windsor-Hights Herald. In your article, you posed the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the rat?" Allow us to provide…
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New schools chief ready for new challenges
Gail Verona ready for first school year as Jamesburg superintendent. By: Bill Greenwood JAMESBURG For many district students, Sept. 5 simply marks the beginning of another school year, but not for new Superintendent Gail Verona. For her, that day will mark the culmination of a long and varied career in education that began in…
