Category: archives
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Farmers, bugs and chemical warfare
Part One: EPA phases out insecticide Part Two: Local farmers adapt (as usual) to change By: Cara Latham EPA phases out insecticide AZM,br> Use of pesticides has long been in practice as a tool to battle insects that may invade and destroy crops. But as in any industry, tools change. For myriad reasons because…
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First Rider student joins presidential study program
Andrew Buher was named to the Fellows Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. By: Lea Kahn Andrew Buher has been interested in government and politics since he spent the day at the Statehouse as a junior and then as a senior at Lawrence High School. It is no surprise then that…
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HHS indoor track teams expecting big season
O’Connor, boys should be among state elite By: Rudy Brandl Some things will be different but one key element remains the same for this year’s Hillsborough High indoor track and field teams the goal to win championships. The Raiders opened the 2006-07 campaign at the Liberty Relays in Jersey City last Friday, one…
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District fires grid coach
New direction sought for team By: Bill Greenwood Mark Prelewicz, head coach of the South Brunswick High School football team, will not be returning to the sidelines next year. Athletic Director Elaine McGrath said Wednesday the school decided to "go in a new direction" and seek a new head coach for the 2007 season. Mr.…
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EDITOR’S JOURNAL
Zen and the art of Patrick Stewart By: John Dunphy Patrick Stewart is a genius. Call me a fanboy, but since "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the former Shakespearean wunderkind has impressed me with his acting chops and his ability to take a role and make it identifiably his. Capt. Jean Luc Picard? That’s Patrick…
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My Turn
The Christmas spirit means more than a spending contest By: Hank Reeves How did all this get started the malls’ parking lots jammed to their outer limits, the dodging of shoppers coming out loaded down with shopping bags as you’re trying to enter the store, the madness starting in September, with the biggest days…
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Powerful Voices
Patriots’ Week offers a rich look at the role women took in shaping America. By: Susan Van Dongen George Washington may be the father of our country, but perhaps he wouldn’t have won so many hearts and minds if it hadn’t been for "the little woman." Before she was officially the first First Lady, Martha…
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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…
