• Community Calendar: March 29 edition

    Thurs., March 29    Children’s Weekly Storytime Sessions: Allentown Public Library, 16 South Main Street, Allentown. Stories, rhymes and music for all ages. Please call library for age groups and times (609) 259-7565.    School-age Storytime and Crafts: 4:15 p.m., Robbinsville branch of the Mercer County Library System, 42 Robbinsville-Allentown Road; for children in grades kindergarten and…

  • Princeton-area Metal Heads To Compete in NYC For Best Shredder Crown

    Princeton-area Metal Heads To Compete in NYC For Best Shredder Crown

    Guitarist Anant Murty will represent School of Rock Princeton at "MetalFest" in NYC on April 7

  • ROBBINSVILLE: BOE decides to expand schools, not build new one

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The Board of Education last week unanimously decided to have its architects move forward with designs to expand the elementary and middle schools instead of building a new school for grades three to five.    The proposed $19.9 million expansion project, which would require voter approval in December, would…

  • MANVILLE: Two meetings will review school budget

       The Manville Board of Education has moved up one of its budget review meeting dates for parents and citizens to Thursday, April 5.    It had been scheduled for Monday, April 16.    There now will be two budget reviews April 5. One will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Manville High School auditorium. The other will…

  • MANVILLE: New Jersey as ‘The Corrupt State?’ No more

    Report runs counter to stereotypical view of our politics    You know the long-standing stereotype New Jersey is a place where business is decided behind closed doors after cash in envelopes has been passed under the table?    Fuhgetaboutit.    According to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, New Jersey has cleaned up its act and…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: BOE passes $138 million budget

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: BOE passes $138 million budget

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    The Board of Education unanimously passed a $138 million budget for 2012-13 Monday night, the first time a school budget passed without a township vote.    ”We are going to talk about tonight, a budget that is, in many ways, very frugal,” Superintendent Dr. Gary McCartney said at the beginning…

  • Princeton-area Metal Heads To Compete in NYC For Best Shredder Crown

    Princeton-area Metal Heads To Compete in NYC For Best Shredder Crown

    By School of Rock Princeton Top rockers will win a week of metal camp in the Catskills Over 100 students from nine School of Rock franchises in New York and New Jersey will perform in a concert called “Metal Fest:  Are You Metal Enough?” at the Gramercy Theater in New York City on Saturday, April…

  • LAWRENCE: Rider students walk all night for cancer fund-raiser

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Three little words — “hope, faith, courage” — are tattooed just above Alison Knepple’s right hip, but this is not just an ordinary tattoo.    Those three words are a reminder of the battle with cancer that the Rider University freshman fought three years ago, as a high school junior in…

  • ALLENTOWN: AHS track and field ready to go the distance

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Brian Harshman believes that continuity is an important part of track and field, particularly with distance running, and the Allentown High School boys and girls will have continuity with him stepping in as the new spring head coach.    Harshman was an assistant coach who focused on the distance runners…

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