Category: archives
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Resurrecting the bus routes
Revised route for nonpublic school students ready By: Purvi Desai UPPER FREEHOLD Starting on Monday, 41 nonpublic school children who attend St. Gregory the Great and Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic schools in Robbinsville will have buses to take them to school and the buses will stop at safer places, Upper Freehold Regional…
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Press Forum
Should Monroe consolidate its three fire districts into one district or one department? Should Monroe consolidate its three fire districts into one district or one department?
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Cameras added for security
Jamesburg to keep closer electrical eye on JFK School By: Bill Greenwood JAMESBURG The school district hopes that expanding its video surveillance system will mean a safer school ground at John F. Kennedy School. New cameras with DVD-recording capabilities have been installed in the school’s playground area, and a new monitor for viewing the…
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Hopson a leader on PHS gridiron
Defensive back has grown with program By: Bob Nuse Sascha Hopson is in his third season as a starting safety for the Princeton High football team. Three years as a starter means Hopson has plenty of experience. But he has also had to learn a little something new each year with the Little Tigers. "It…
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Borough resident fills BOE seat
By: Purvi Desai UPPER FREEHOLD The newest member of the Upper Freehold Regional School District is Doug Anthony, an Allentown resident and a professional business agent heavily involved in the community. Mr. Anthony was named to replace Kathy Wolden, who resigned her seat on the board on Aug. 10, for personal reasons. "It looks…
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Child of the ’60s
Passage Theatre opens its season with a world premiere about the civil rights movement. By: Susan Van Dongen For playwright, director and actress Seret Scott, college had always been a dream. Like many African-Americans of her generation, Ms. Scott’s parents started talking to her about higher education almost before she started kindergarten. That’s why, when…
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A new system to select music
School using lottery to determine what instruments students play By: Lacey Korevec It was the luck of the draw this year for Cranbury School fourth-graders. On Sept. 15, students participated in the school’s first music lottery, a new system meant to make the assigning of band instruments more fair by relying on chance, rather than…
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Lawrenceville School creates institutional ‘sustainability’
"Green Campus" initiative could be the future for schools nationwide By: Pat Tanner When my husband and I enrolled our older daughter in The Lawrenceville School back in 1994, this prestigious independent school had many things to recommend it. The food in the dining hall was not among them. Meals, served three times a day…
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Student’s SUPER offer
Local Douglass student gets unique opportunity By: Candice Leigh Helfand MONROE One local Rutgers student has been given the opportunity to take her college education one step further. Douglass College, the all-female college at Rutgers, has offered Jacqueline Medina, 19, a chance to participate in their Project SUPER Science for Undergraduates: a Program…
