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Fireworks set for Independence Day
July 4 will bring lights and music to the Township By: Joseph Harvie The township is ready to light up the night sky with explosions of color during its annual July 4 fireworks display. The extravaganza is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. at the South Brunswick High School with a free performance by the…
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Letters for the week of June 22
Take a close look at two-school plan To the editor: Does Lawrence really need another school a fourth transitional step in the long march to graduation? The Board of Education believes we do and has announced the formation of a new school just for fourth-graders. The current plan is to split Lawrence Intermediate…
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LHS Class of ’06 closes books
Eighty-three Washington students among graduates By: Audrey Levine TRENTON Despite the rain clouds threatening to put a damper on the festivities, the Lawrence High School Class of 2006 paraded into Sovereign Bank Arena, heads held high, as families and friends cheered for their favorite graduate. While the traditional "Pomp and Circumstance" played, more than…
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Gems on the diamond
By: Sean Moylan Playing for the eighth day in a row, the Hightstown Post 148 American Legion baseball team’s over-worked pitching staff needed a break entering Monday night’s contest versus Mitchell Davis at Mercer County Park. Luckily, Ethan Perro was there to give his mates on the Hightstown pitching staff the night off as he…
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Jost’s last year the best
By: Redd E. Patrick When South Brunswick High School girls track coach Brian Jost announced his retirement prior to the 2006 season, he had no idea it would the best one in school history. To put that in historical perspective, Jost began the girls program in 1978. In 2006, his Vikings: * Tied six-time defending…
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Work begins on new Bordentown Acme shopping center
Acme Commons to include new 54,000-square-foot supermarket By: Molly Petrilla BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP Officials from Bordentown Township, Acme supermarket and Freedman Cohen Development LLC met last Friday to shake hands, pose for photographs and break ground on the new shopping center site at Route 130 and Dunns Mill Road. The Acme Commons shopping center, which…
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BRHS graduates bid farewell to old school, each other
Valedictorian: "This is the beginning of something even greater" By: Molly Petrilla BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP In the first of several musical performances, the yellow- and white-gowned Class of 2006 filed into the school’s auditorium on Monday night behind a Scottish bagpiper. Cloudy skies had forced the graduation indoors for the second year in a row,…
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Hopewell playground to get update
Student activities funds will be used to pay for the playground equipment By John Tredrea Installation of new playground equipment at Hopewell Elementary School was OK’d Monday by Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education members. The new equipment, recommended by Hopewell Elementary administrators, will replace existing equipment that is not in compliance with new federal…
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Schools hold their final sixth-grade commencements
Bordentown elementary schools will convert from a K-6 to a K-3 school in the fall. By: Cara Latham BORDENTOWN As the school district prepares to open its new high school in the fall and deal with accompanying changes within its other schools, the two elementary schools Clara Barton Elementary School and The Peter…
