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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Police department gets new officers
By John Tredrea, Special Writer Two new Hopewell Township police officers, Nicolas Sparaco and Robert Voorhees, were sworn in during Monday night’s Hopewell Township Committee meeting. Township police Chief George Meyer was on hand in uniform, along with family members and close friends of the two new township officers. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Officer Sparaco…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: St. Michael’s: Site of many new projects
By Ilene Dube, Special Writer St. Michael’s Farm Preserve was just awakening from a long winter’s nap when D&R Greenway Land Trust leaders addressed a group of 25 community members, whose spirits couldn’t be dampened by the then cold rainy weather. In early March, they gathered in Hopewell Borough Hall to learn more about new…
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Valley Golf Club’s pub room named for Dr. T.A. Pierson
FOR HISTORY’S SAKE The Hopewell Valley Golf Club (HVGC) held a dedication and unveiling ceremony marking the renaming of its historic pub room on Wednesday. The room has been named the “T.A. Pierson Room,” in honor of Dr. Theodore A. Pierson (1870-1948), a co-founder of the club and its first president. Dr. Pierson was a…
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Pennington School team finds unknown viruses
Four Pennington School students have discovered two previously unknown viruses. Working as a team every day in the laboratory, the students took more than four months to isolate and purify the viruses from local soil samples. The four are students in an innovative honors research course, Advanced Research in Molecular Biology, launched at the school…
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Put pressure on BPU
Gail Silver Titusville My neighbors and I have suffered enough through the outages caused by JCP&L’s lack of responsible service to our area. I have lost food in my two freezers so often I am afraid to buy enough food to stock them. I have frozen because my heater does not run in…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Community calendar, issue of April 11
Band parents group collects clothing Sat., April 13 — Used clothing collection for band and guard programs at Hillsborough High School, 10 a.m. to noon at the entrance to the high school, 466 Raider Blvd. Call 908-240-6218 or visit www.hhs-band.org to see what you can donate. Your personal papers can be shredded Sat., April 13…
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PRINCETON: Route 206 closed two hours by truck fire
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A stretch of Route 206 was closed for about two hours Wednesday due to a tractor trailer fire that occurred just south of Lover’s Lane, police said. The fire was extinguished and the road reopened to traffic at about 3:30 p.m. The trailer was open at the top and…
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SENIOR MENUS
All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville. Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance. The value of each meal is $5.10. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise…
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Successful Indian immigrant entrepreneur Sharmistha Das launches her first memoir
By Das Publishing Princeton, NJ: In her new book, From Hindustan Cables Limited: Journey of a Small-Town Indian Immigrant Woman (Das Publishing; softcover; February 16, 2013), Sharmistha Das tells her story, the story of an ambitious girl who grew up in a 250 sq. ft home with no running water in an unknown town of…
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