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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.…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…