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EDITORIAL
Legislators earn credit for taking action. New Jersey residents and taxpayers have had good reason to be critical of their state legislators lately. After promising to tackle the Garden State’s most pressing problems head-on in 2006, lawmakers have steadily retreated from the ambitious agenda they laid out for themselves at the start of the year.…
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Letters to the Editor, Dec. 21, 2006
Diversity forbidden? To the editor: As a Buddhist with a son who thinks for himself, I was very saddened to hear about the decision somewhere in the Hopewell Valley schools to eliminate all religious and secular references to either Christmas or Hanukkah while permitting celebration of "winter." Christmas is good. The ironies in this…
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LHS edges Irish in historic opening win
GIRLS BASKETBALL By: Tim Falls No win this season may be bigger than the first. The Lawrence High School girls basketball team upset Notre Dame, 36-34, for the first time last Friday in their Colonial Valley Conference season opener. No matter how far the Cardinals go it will be hard to top their first win.…
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Cambridge gets assistant principal
Fifth-grade teacher gets promoted By: Bill Greenwood The Board of Education approved a new assistant principal for Cambridge School on Monday. Amanda Rosenberg, a fifth-grade teacher at Brooks Crossing, will take over for Assistant Principal Kelly Huggins, who has accepted a position as principal of Upper Freehold Regional Elementary School in Allentown, Superintendent Gary McCartney…
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Holiday celebration rules cause stir in community
Superintendent Judith Ferguson: ‘This is a legal issue, not a policy issue.’ By John Tredrea New Bear Tavern School December holidays guidelines which included stipulations that decorations of Santa Claus, Christmas trees and menorahs should not be in the school have brought forth a wave of discontent among parents. After parents and caregivers…
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What a choice!
What to get for whom? Nine-year-old Tyler Krampf of Hopewell looks at gifts he could buy for loved ones during the Reindeer Lane Children’s Gift Shop at Hopewell Railroad Station Friday.
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Vikings give Barrio first victory
By: Rich Fisher When Beth Barrio looks back upon the first victory of her varsity coaching career, she will see a lot of cool things. Not the least of which was that her girls listened and performed which is pretty much every coach’s dream and rallied for a 56-35 victory over Woodbridge last…
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The name game
Residents’ input sought on new school name By: Stephanie Prokop FLORENCE The Florence Township School District will take on a whole new persona, literally, after the contest to name the new middle school is completed on Jan. 15. The entire district is doing a bit of rearranging, due to the renovation of the old…
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Vikings try to shed their growing gorilla
By: Ken Weingartner Mike Slansky feels like he’s watching King Kong, but it has nothing to do with either the 1933 classic film or its recent high budget remake. This big monkey in this case is on the back of his South Brunswick High boys ice hockey team. With two losses last week, 3-2 to…
