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  • Custodian raises recycling awareness

    Award-winning program by Crossroads North’s head custodian, Pam DiCicco, cleans up. By:Audrey Levine    Twice a year, students dig through their lockers, pulling out old tests, homework assignments and school lunches that have collected over the months.    Many dump it all in the garbage, forgetting about the recycling bins standing empty nearby. Now, thanks to an…

  • School energy advice sought by Valley school board

    Committee’s mission is to find systems and facility improvements that will cut energy costs and increase conservation By John Tredrea    Faced with rapidly rising energy costs, the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education has formed an ad hoc committee on energy conservation and is asking energy experts in the community to volunteer their help.    "Heating…

  • Hockey team begins 2006 with two romps

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High ice hockey team roared into 2006 with a pair of convincing victories last weekend.    Saturday’s 8-0 shutout triumph over West Orange gave the Raiders a commanding two-game lead in the Central Blue Division. HHS improved its divisional mark to 6-0, while West Orange and Livingston are…

  • Traveling science program lands at Cambridge

    Franklin Institute educator engages students during lesson on history of flight. By:Audrey Levine    The science expert looked around the gym at the kindergarten and first-grade students who were looking at him and the tables of airplanes, balloons and other scientific equipment that was behind him.    With a smile on his face, he asked the children…

  • Lawrence girls fall to Collins, Steinert

    Lawrence girls basketball By: Jim Green    The score might not indicate it, but Lawrence High School girls basketball coach Gregg Zenerovitz thought his team played some of its best basketball of the season Friday in a 54-24 road loss to Steinert.    Ashley Russo led Lawrence with eight points, followed by Courtney Smith (six) and Maria…

  • MLK ESSAY by Christian Ginez: On the Rev. King and modern day voting:

       See Related Story Local teen wins Princeton MLK essay contest    "That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he…

  • Saluting the troops

    Lawrence Intermediate School students joined the effort to bid farewell to troops preparing to leave for Afghanistan on Jan. 5 at the 112th Field Artillery armory on Eggerts Crossing Road. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Families, friends and politicians gave a rousing send-off to 100 New Jersey Army National Guardsmen last week after the soldiers were…

  • Noyes neutralized in loss to WW-PS

    Hopewell Valley girls basketball By: John E. Powers    West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s defense took away Suzie Noyes from the Hopewell Valley Central High School girls basketball team Tuesday night. The results weren’t surprising.    South used a stifling box-and-one on the Lady Bulldog standout on its way to a 46-23 win in West Windsor.    Hopewell, which came…

  • Victory March

    Participants marched along Route 206 from the Municipal Building to Capital Health Systems Fuld campus in Trenton. The re-enactors made stops at three sites of three skirmishes of the Revolutionary War battle in Lawrence. By: Lea Kahn Staff Writer It was not a good day to be a British solider in Lawrence — especially when…