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  • Marchers spread message of independence

    By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP—Walking to Tibet from Bordentown may be an impossible feat, but a number of Tibetans and their supporters made their way through the area early this week as they participated in the 100-mile March for Tibet’s Independence.    The walk is the 13th major march or bicycle ride for Tibet’s independence organized…

  • Jury out in Dabas trial

    Dayton man faces 30 years if convicted of charges that he murdered his wife by running her over in a parking lot with a van. By: Paul Koepp    The jury in the murder trial of a Kendall Park man accused of running down his wife with the couple’s minivan in 2004 ended its third day…

  • Letter to the Editor, July 5, 2007

    Questions CHS deal To the editor:     I am sure all of us in Hopewell Valley would welcome a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility for the Hopewell Valley YMCA. It can only be a boon to the community.    But, at a time when Capital Health Systems is trying to minimize public opposition to its proposed Hopewell Valley…

  • High school plans switch to weighted averages

    But policy inconsistency on requests leads school board to table change. By: Eileen Oldfield    A proposal to use weighted grade point average (GPA) for high school students, replacing class rank on student transcripts, was tabled at the Board of Education’s June 18 meeting because of a discrepancy on whether the policy will allow parents to…

  • School board, MEA heading to mediator

    Teacher contract negotiations stuck on salary, benefit costs. By: Eileen Oldfield    The Board of Education and the Manville Education Association (MEA) have hit an impasse in negotiating a new contract, and will enter mediation, according to an NJEA official.    Talks between the board and the MEA stalled over salaries and benefits, and both sides agreed…

  • Centenarian’s death saddens community

    By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP—The description under Anna T. Burr’s 1918 senior yearbook photograph read "anger she knowth not, and a fair smile she hath for all, community residents recall her kind spirit."    Influential local teacher and native Bordentonian Anna T. Burr died at the age of 107 on Sunday at her home at the…

  • CHS auto shop agreement inked

    Afternoon classes will include only Hopewell Valley students By John Tredrea    This fall, Hopewell Valley Central High School’s auto shop program will continue offering the same courses it has for years. The courses will be offered in conjunction with the Mercer County vocational school, the Arthur Sypek school.    The school district began negotiating with the…

  • Blood found, quarrel cited in Giordano case

    Prosecutor downplays find in case of missing woman By: Vic Monaco    Blood was recently found in the Hightstown apartment of Amy Giordano, which prompted further investigation there this week.    But the Mercer County prosecutor’s office downplayed the finding as the wide-ranging probe continued into the disappearance of the single mother, whose abandoned baby remained in…

  • Iron Chef Flay grills at Von Thun’s

    Aired on CBS Sunday Morning July 1 By: Emily Holody    Jamie Cullen of Von Thun’s Country Farm Market watches celebrity chef Bobby Flay on the Food Network channel with her family all the time. She was thrilled to find out that Chef Flay was coming to Von Thun’s Farm to grill corn for a segment…