Category: archives
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LHS plays volleyball to support golf team
GOLF By: Tim Falls Golf is an expensive sport. Especially for a high school student. To help defray some of the costs of an upcoming golf trip, the Lawrence High School golf team hosted a volleyball fundraiser last Thursday night. The Cardinals are sending five golfers to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina from April 3 to…
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St. Michael’s goal down to $100,000
"We’re so close, but we’re not there yet," said Jo-Ann Munoz, D&R Greenway By Ruth Luse March 8: Just a week to go to raise the remaining $100,000 needed to complete the funding package to purchase the St. Michael’s property. The deadline is March 15. On March 1, the goal was $202,000. Support from private…
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Verizon wiring for television
The company is installing a fiber-optic system that will bring broadband Internet, phone and cable television to residents who opt for it. By: Joseph Harvie Residents will get a second choice for a cable television provider. Verizon is in the process of installing a fiber-optic system in town that will bring broadband Internet, phone and…
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Florence school named ‘Riverfront’
By: Stephanie Prokop FLORENCE The school complex on Front Street has a new name: Florence Township Riverfront School. Superintendent Louis Talarico said the name is what the Board of Education selected after collecting ideas from the public. The board members chose the names that they thought would suit the building the best, and eventually narrowed…
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Letters to the editor
Week of March 8 Breza Road is not the solution To the editor: Common sense at last. In response to former school board member Robert Cheff’s comments (The Messenger-Press, Feb. 22) on the issues surrounding the middle school. Our Board of Education should be looking further down the road and being a little more…
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Hopewell Harvest Fair in trouble
Without the support of the community, the fair will not take place this year The Hopewell Harvest Fair planning committee held its "kick-off" meeting recently to begin work on the 21st annual fair and has reported that the "fair is in serious need of new volunteers." This year is a rebuilding year for the fair,…
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School aid higher, but still not enough
By: Rebecca Weltmann The good news is that the 2007-08 state aid figures released on Feb. 26 from the state Department of Education are higher than last year’s. The bad news is that local school administrators say the increases are not enough to fix the damage done by frozen state aid during the past few…
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Centenarian ready to celebrate 107
Anna T. Burr celebrates over a century in Bordentown By: Stephanie Prokop Former Bordentown teacher and principal Anna T. Burr will be celebrating her 107th birthday on Monday. She spoke of the milestone nonchalantly while sitting in an armchair in her room at Medford Leas retirement home earlier this week. She said that she is…
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Hopewell Township tot mauled by dog ‘doing great’
Caroline is seeing a plastic surgeon, ophthalmologist and dentist on a regular basis, Michelle Domboski said By John Tredrea Toddler Caroline Domboski was the epitome of childhood joy and enthusiasm, merrily skipping around Titusville’s Union Fire Company and Rescue Squad station house with a positive energy and spirit that seemed limitless. "Hi!" she suddenly cried…
