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Pet owners, veterinarians stay alert to food warnings
The specter of poisoned food haunts area pet lovers By: Greg Forester The specter of poisoned pet food is haunting area pet lovers, veterinarians and pet store employees. All say they are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping their four-legged friends have avoided injury from contaminated products. The nearly 100 brands of recalled pet foods…
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State sues West Windsor firm over prescription sales
Medications4Less illegally sold discount drugs from Canada over the Internet, according to six-count complaint By: Nick Norlen WEST WINDSOR The state Attorney General’s Office has filed a civil suit against a Princeton Junction company and its operator charging that it illegally sold discount Canadian prescription drugs over the Internet. The six-count complaint, filed in…
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Challengers claim three seats on school board
Voters approve $100.6 million school budget By: Voters approved the proposed $100.6 million school budget and a slate of new members for the Board of Education, Tuesday. With 2,966 votes cast about 15 percent of the township’s registered voters the budget was approved by a margin of 1,543 to 1,423. Board challengers Frank…
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Montgomery voters narrowly OK school budget
Bradley, Luke and Wang elected to Board of Education Montgomery voters narrowly approved the $73 million school budget for the 2007-2008 school year and elected incumbents Andrea Bradley and Dr. Reginald Luke and newcomer Yiping Wang to the Board of Education. The budget question received 1,028 yes votes and 896 no votes. In the race…
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Stockton school budget vote is tied
School board race uncontested. By: When the votes were tallied after the polls closed Tuesday, the question of whether to approve Stockton’s proposed $592,275 school budget with a tax levy of $12,949 had received 61 "yes" votes and 61 "no" votes. The proposed budget will now go to the Borough Council, which will have to…
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Lambertville Public School budget passes
Voters approve over-cap spending By: Linda Seida Lambertville Public School’s $2,804,732 budget passed 252-193, with the unofficial count of absentee ballots adding six more yes votes and three more no votes in Tuesday’s school election. LPS’s question to spend $72,680 over cap was close, 229-218, with an unofficial absentee ballot count adding six more yes…
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Tigers gear up for No. 1
Cornell is next for PU lacrosse By: Bob Nuse Maybe the Princeton University men’s lacrosse team was looking ahead just a little bit. In the end, it didn’t really matter. "It was a workmanlike win," said PU coach Bill Tierney after his Tigers defeated Harvard, 9-3, on Saturday to set up a showdown with unbeaten…
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BREAKING NEWS: Budget, incumbents win in South Brunswick
Budget approved by 279 votes. By: Paul Koepp South Brunswick voters backed the district’s $131.5 million school budget Tuesday. The budget, which calls for an 11.8-cent increase in the school tax rate to $2.558 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, was approved by a 1,821-1,542 vote. Under that rate, a house assessed at the township…
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Terrorism, ‘Just War’ topic for institute talk
Michael Walzer, UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present the lecture "Terrorism and Just War" 6 p.m. Friday, May 4, at Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the institute. The lecture is free and open to the public. Professor Walzer will be retiring on July…
