Category: Bordentown Register News
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Shared moments and experiences
Hope Loves Company and Camp HLC celebrates 10 years providing for families impacted by ALS The impact of ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal disease, can be great not only for the person diagnosed, but for his or her family — especially children. For 10 years, Camp HLC has provided not just weekends full of…
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Pine Barrens plants – the rare, the weird and the wonderful
by Alison Mitchell, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation If you look at the New Jersey Pine Barrens from the road or the air, it may seem to live up to its name – miles upon miles of endless pitch pine forest. But the million-acre-plus region spanning seven counties in South Jersey is not just…
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Bordentown Regional’s theater program continue Cappie wins
Senior Ryan Kaufman awarded Casey Feldman Foundation Scholarship and freshman Brynn Bowyer wins spirit award The gratification is real for Stacie Morano, who wears many hats at Bordentown Regional High School. Technical director and theater manager of the Bordentown Performing Arts Center, director of the international Thespian Society Troupe 6803 and advisor of the Bordentown…
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Common calendar, Packet papers, May 25
Burlington, Mercer, and Somerset counties New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which provides blood for local patients, is looking for a few good volunteers. The blood drive volunteer is an integral member of our team whose tasks include assisting donors with registration and/or at the refreshment area. No medical…
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Reforms needed to protect our public lands
by Tom Gilbert, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation The chunky woodland sandpiper called the American woodcock is a favorite of spring birdwatchers due to the male’s acrobatic courtship display flights. Making a distinctive buzz call and melodious twittering song, males rise hundreds of feet in the air before making plunging dives earthward. Though woodcocks…
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Common calendar, Packet papers, May 18
Burlington, Mercer, and Somerset counties New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which provides blood for local patients, is looking for a few good volunteers. The blood drive volunteer is an integral member of our team whose tasks include assisting donors with registration and/or at the refreshment area. No medical…
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Discovery Center at Point Breeze opens May 20
Officials will unveil circa 1819 painting of Joseph Bonaparte in its original frame that has never before been seen in public D&R Greenway Land Trust welcomes community members to the public opening of the new Discovery Center at Point Breeze on Saturday, May 20 from 1- 5 p.m. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at…
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Answering the call
DEA collects thousands of unneeded medications during National Prescription Take Back Day Thousands of unneeded medications were collected in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s bi-annual National Prescription Take Back Day. Some 663,775 pounds of unneeded medications were dropped off at nearly 5,000 collection sites on April 22. Since its inception in 2010, DEA’s bi-annual National…
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Leader in innovation
Princeton University leads an NSF-funded regional consortium advancing photonics research A new Princeton-led collaboration to drive economic and technological advancements in photonics has been awarded a development grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. Photonics is the branch of science that includes lasers, optical fibers and cutting-edge light-based…
