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  • Noor-Ul-Iman set to graduate eight

    Third graduating class of Islamic K-12 school will have commencement on Sunday By: Marisa Maldonado    Many of the eight graduating seniors at Noor-Ul-Iman School have attended the school since their elementary days. They’ve taken the same classes, participated in multiple extracurricular activities, and prayed and fasted together during holidays.    So everyone immediately could recall a…

  • Board OKs teacher pact

    Calls for 4.95% annual raises By: Marisa Maldonado    The teachers union and the Board of Education have approved a contract giving the district’s 850 teachers a 4.95 percent raise for each of the three years of the deal. The agreement came more than a week before the expiration of the current contract.    The Board of…

  • State Police fees could prove costly

    Local towns weigh coverage options By: Purvi Desai    A pair of local rural towns could be asked to pay for state police coverage beginning July 1 — the date when the fiscal 2006-07 state budget will have to be adopted — if a proposal by Gov. Jon Corzine goes through.    Gov. Corzine’s plan to charge…

  • Early deadline for July 6 edition

    Deadline for submission of news copy and letters to the editor for the edition of July 6 will be 2 p.m. on Friday, June 30    Because of the holiday on Tuesday, July 4, the deadline for submission of news copy and letters to the editor for the edition of July 6 will be 2 p.m.…

  • Court: patrolman’s dismissal too harsh

    Six months suspension was maximum penalty By: Cara Latham    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Appellate Division of Superior Court has ruled that dismissing John Carter, a patrolman fired by the Township Committee in 2004 for not adhering to sick-time regulations and sleeping while on duty, was too severe a punishment.    The decision was handed down May…

  • Stony Brook Elementary principal has new district job

    Also approved was the appointment of Steven Wilfing as acting Stony Brook principal By John Tredrea    Kate Napolitano will leave the principalship of Stony Brook Elementary July 1 to become the new districtwide director of instruction for the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.    Ms. Napolitano’s appointment to that post at an annual salary of $122,893…

  • Isaiah Harris

       Isaiah Harris, 61, of Monmouth Junction, died Friday, June 9, at his home.    He was a retiree of Verizon in New York City, where he worked as an installer for many years before retiring in 1994.    Mr. Harris was born on May 15, 1945, in Richmond, Va., the second oldest of four children to the…

  • Work begins at Pennington’s Public Works site

    Tuesday groundbreaking held By John Tredrea    Pennington Borough officials joined the six-man borough Public Works crew and their supervisor Tuesday morning for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Public Works building, located off North Main Street, just outside the borough boundary in Hopewell Township.    Slated to open this fall, the 22,000-square-foot building will include an…

  • Bordentown 12’s have solid team

    By: Sean Moylan    Expectations were high for last year’s Bordentown 11 and 12-Year-Old Little League All-Star team and the club lived up to those expectations with a fine 5-3 record and Bordentown’s most successful District 12 showing in many years.    Although Bordentown’s roster was made up of mostly 12-year-olds, a then 11-year-old Joey Gutowski emerged…