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  • Essays offer ideas for making a better world

    Weston Elementary School students will express their ideas and opinions during April’s Week of the Young Child. By: Donna Lukiw    While politicians, educators and advocates are busy figuring out how to make the world a better place, Weston Elementary School students are poised to join the effort.    They will have a chance to express their…

  • Township accepts grant for police study

    Money will help pay consultant to study interlocal agreement under which Hopewell Township police cover Hopewell Borough By John Tredrea    A consultant hired to help figure out how much Hopewell Borough should pay the township for police protection is expected to issue recommendations this summer to settle the long-running dispute between the two municipalities.    Hopewell…

  • Kraft hopes SBHS season as good as his off-season

    By: Sean Richards    The off-season simply couldn’t have been much better for South Brunswick High School boys’ golf coach Mark Kraft. Now in his 21st year at the Viking helm. Kraft first got the news he had been named New Jersey’s "Coach of the Year" after attaining his 300th win last season.    Kraft then found…

  • New students could raise district costs

    School board budget eyes 17-cent tax rate increase By: Scott Morgan    CHESTERFIELD — The school board proposed a $4.42 million budget Monday night that would spell a 17-cent tax rate increase if approved by voters on April 18.    The proposed budget calls for a tax rate of $1.427 per $100 of assessed valuation, up from…

  • TCNJ champions take over

    New LHS girls lacrosse coaches played in National Division III final. By: Tim Falls    There will probably come a point this season when coaches Heather Rainey and Lauren Gossner will want to charge onto the lacrosse field with sticks in their hands.    Rainey, the new Lawrence high school girls lacrosse varsity coach, and Gossner, the…

  • Florence baseball a hard team to pin down

    By: Sean Moylan    This baseball season, Ryan Pandolfini believes his Florence Township Memorial High School baseball team will either be a hit or a miss. But if it’s a hit it could be a very big one.    "Last year I was blessed with eight talented seniors. Obviously, we won the league and got the top…

  • Bulldogs feature plenty of numbers, talent

    HOPEWELL VALLEY TRACK By: Mike Molaro    The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys and girls spring track squads enter the 2006 season with many similarities but varying degrees of expectations.    Whereas the Bulldog boys want to defend the Colonial Valley Conference Patriot Division title they shared with Princeton and be a force in the Mercer…

  • MHS boys receive hoops awards

    Blasi looks ahead to bright future By: Mary Ellen Zangara        Basketball is over and the 2005-2006 winter season has officially come to an end with the players receiving their awards at the winter sports dinner held recently at the VFW. The Manville High School Athletic Booster Club honored all the winter athletes.    Athletic Director…

  • Ex-police chief seeks dismissal of charges

    Key witness will reportedly testify in Castagna case By: Scott Morgan    The attorney for former Bordentown City Police Chief Philip Castagna last week filed her second motion to have conspiracy and arson charges against him dismissed, now that a key witness has reportedly decided not to testify in the case.    Robin Lord, Mr. Castagna’s Trenton-based…