Category: archives
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DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Just call me a cranky curmudgeon
In time, we all end up on the other side of the generation gap By: Hank Kalet My dad and I used to have a running argument when I was a teen over my hair. I used to wear my hair long not Allman Brothers long, but approaching my shoulders. He used to say,…
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Yock, Miller come through as South advances in GMCT
By: Rich Fisher There’s something to be said about presence. Susie Miller had it on Tuesday. There’s something to be said about persistence. Sam Yock had it the same day. Between the P&P girls, South Brunswick High’s girls soccer team escaped with a shootout victory over 12th-seeded Bishop Ahr in a chilly, windy Greater Middlesex…
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Cutting township’s open space tax is not solution
GUEST OPINION By Swep Davis: Last month, the board of trustees of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association voted unanimously to oppose Hopewell Township Ballot Question 1, which would cut the township’s open space fund. As the Watershed’s board chairman and a resident of Hopewell Township for more than a decade, I urge the township’s residents…
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Kenneth Ingebrand
Kenneth G. Ingebrand, 87, of Monmouth Junction, formerly of Clearwater, Fla., died Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the home of his daughter in Monmouth Junction. Born in New Brunswick, he resided in Plainsboro over 30 years before moving to Clearwater, Fla. in 1986. He returned to New Jersey six months ago to live with his daughter…
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Every cracked door represents access to strangers with unknown intentions
GUEST COLUMN By JoAnn Meyer Last week’s National Safe Schools Week arrived this year with the horror at Lancaster County still fresh in our memories. And maybe that’s not so bad. For those who believed that school violence, however rare, was still something that happened elsewhere, usually in public high schools and by disaffected teenaged…
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Fire officials seeking VA depot agreement
Since the depot is federal property, tenants aren’t held to local fire and construction codes but township fire companies still must respond in an emergency. By: Charlie Olsen Fire Marshal Chris Weniger met with representatives from the VA Depot Wednesday to discuss the possibility of a contract for fire safety inspections, service and enforcement.…
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Ballot question asks to extend county tax
By: Cara Latham Burlington County voters who are heading to the polls Nov. 7 will decide whether or not to extend the county’s dedicated tax levy for farmland preservation and open space until 2036. The ballot question, approved by the Burlington County freeholders, will ask voters if they wish to extend the levy of 4…
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It’s lights out for this physical education class
During the fall festival, teachers found creative ways to combine physical education classes with the fall season. By: Donna Lukiw Hillsborough Elementary School’s physical education classes went dark this week, but it’s part of an innovative plan to combine several lesson goals. As part of the school’s annual fall festival, the physical education teachers found…
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Amelia Antonietti
Amelia "Molly" T. Antonietti, 91, of Monmouth Junction, died Thursday, Oct. 19, in Park Place Care Center, Monmouth Junction., where she resided for one year. Born in Manhattan, N.Y., she resided in Port Richmond section of Staten Island, N.Y., for 45 years before moving to Port Richie, Fla., and resided in Monmouth Junction since 1995.…
