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  • Timberlane students prepare for South African encounter

    Local video-conference will be at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Hopewell Township By John Tredrea    An ongoing cultural exchange program between Timberlane Middle School sixth-graders and their contemporaries in a remote section of South Africa will culminate in the groups meeting one another in a video-conference in May.    To prepare for that encounter, the students are sending…

  • Union agrees to early talks to negotiate 2007 contract

    Talks could yield change to 2006 contract (Feb. 2) By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — In the midst of increasingly volatile relations between the fire district and the local union, an olive branch has been extended.    Maybe.    The local firefighters union offered to start collective bargaining sessions early this year to negotiate for the 2007 union…

  • EDITORIAL: The Board of Education wants you

    Three three-year terms and the final year of an unexpired term are up for grabs in this year’s Board of Education elections. It’s time again for residents of South Brunswick to consider seeking a seat on the Board of Education.    While school elections are more than three months away — April 18 — the time…

  • WEB ONLY: Higher-density senior housing proposed

    Ordinance is designed to encourage builders to construct lower-priced housing for seniors. By: Joseph Harvie    A proposed ordinance introduced Tuesday would allow developers to increase the number of homes that they can build in Planned Adult Retirement Community zones from two units per acre to eight units per acre.    The ordinance would create Age Restricted…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Healey earns shutouts as MHS wins county By: Justin Feil    When last year’s starting goaltender Kevin Moore transferred, Montgomery High ice hockey coach Rob Scarpa wasn’t quite sure how his team would be affected.    With Ian Healey, who did not play his freshman year for the Cougars, stepping in and stepping up through the first…

  • State budget caps may stall district’s facilities plan

    Municipal officials organizing meeting between Township Committee and Planning Board By: William Wichert    MANSFIELD — The municipality is taking a closer look at the more than $50 million five-year facilities plan proposed by the Northern Burlington County Regional School District, but the state’s school budget cap restrictions will most likely prevent any of that money…

  • Anti-Wal-Mart group to revisit local wage law

    LET’s STOP Wal-Mart, a citizens group that opposes Wal-Mart, will hold a forum Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    A citizens’ group that opposes Wal-Mart, an Arkansas-based national chain that wants to build a store in Lawrence, plans to hold a forum…

  • Walking and talking issues with the dog

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By John Tredrea    "You’re a good dog. Feel like going for walk?"    Sure, let’s roll. I’ve been sleeping on the sofa all day with nothing to do. Sometimes I growl at the cat, but he just yawns.    "Nice night out here."    I could answer him in dog but he wouldn’t understand me.    "One…

  • Three Hopewell Township tracts are preserved

    Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes made this announcement Jan. 25 while visiting one of the tracts — the Huebner farm on Crusher Road By John Tredrea    Three tracts of Hopewell Township land totaling 139 acres have been preserved as open space at a cost of nearly $2,342,000.    Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes made this announcement…