Category: archives
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Early win set tone for successful year
By: Carolyn M. Hartko Beating North Brunswick High School in a December dual meet set a positive tone for the South Brunswick High School boys’ swim team. The Vikings went on to tie the school record for the most number of wins in a single season (8-4), make the state tournament for the first time…
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District unveils budget
Proposed plan calls for 5.4 percent increase in school taxes. By: Joseph Harvie The rising costs of energy and health benefits for employees, along with an increase in payments to the state-run pension program covering school district employees, could mean a 5.4 percent increase in school taxes. The Board of Education introduced its tentative $125.9…
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This Week
Thursday Caregivers support group: Barbara Stender of the Senior Well Being Program will introduce the Caregivers Support Program at 10:30 a.m. at the Lawrence Senior Center, 30 Darrah Lane East. Credit repair seminar: Wachovia Bank has joined the Greater Trenton Earned Income Tax Credit and Asset Building Coalition and the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness…
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Hopewell planners OK measures needed for Seminary Avenue project
HOPEWELL PLANNING BOARD UPDATE By Aleen Crispino The Hopewell Borough Planning Board voted March 1 to approve a revised site plan and requests for use and bulk variances by Last Exit LLC, allowing it to demolish an unoccupied one-story building at 8-10 Seminary Ave. and replace it with a two-story commercial and residential structure. The…
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District eyes 7.7% tax hike
School board OKs tentative budget; bemoans lack of state aid at meeting By: Rob Heyman WASHINGTON Township residents face a 7.7-percent school tax increase under a $31.4 million tentative budget approved by the Board of Education Monday night. The proposed spending plan, which the board later submitted to the Mercer County superintendent of schools,…
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The Gathering
Mid-Jersey Comicon in Bordentown offers fans a chance to meet their superheroes. By:Scott Morgan The secrets are dark in this city. Dark and shifty like the shadows that conceal the death of Retro Girl. You remember Retro Girl, yes? You should. She’s saved this city many, many times. And now without her, life beneath the…
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Tax rate will depend on state aid figures
Board of Education preliminary budget eyes 8% increase over last year By: Marisa Maldonado PLUMSTED The Board of Education on March 8 introduced a preliminary 2006-07 budget of $19.6 million an 8 percent increase over last year but the tax increase will depend on yet-to-be-released state aid figures, officials said. The preliminary…
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Choir leaders to form local youth chorale
Hopewell Valley Youth Chorale will have two choirs for different age groups By John Tredrea Michele and William Alford, a local husband and wife team with extensive experience in vocal music, are in the process of forming the Hopewell Valley Youth Chorale. Auditions for the nonprofit group, which will rehearse in The Pennington School’s new…
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Letters to the Editor, March 16, 2006
Lewis School location not appropriate To the editor: My wife and I live in Hopewell Township with our young children in a quiet, rural residential neighborhood on Nelson Ridge Road. We are raising our children in Hopewell because we appreciate and value the tremendous scenic beauty and wonderful quality of life this community currently…
