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WEST WINDSOR: Library of Congress truck to visit
WEST WINDSOR A special Library of Congress traveling exhibition mounted in a customized 18-wheel truck will visit West Windsor for two days in August. ”Gateway to Knowledge” will be in West Windsor on Tuesday, Aug. 16, and Wednesday, Aug. 17, and will be parked at the West Windsor Branch of the Mercer…
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PRINCETON AREA: Schools ready anti-bullying compliance
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer In the wake of the tragic end to 18-year-old Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi’s life, New Jersey enacted anti-bullying legislation on Jan. 6, which takes effect at the start of the 2011-2012 school year. Local school districts are gearing up for compliance. ”We are in the process of complying with the…
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Sharon Murphy of Peapack-Gladstone Bank Receives CISP Certification
By Rosanne Schwab Bedminster, NJ – August 8, 2011 Sharon L. Murphy, Junior Supervisor in the CD/IRA Department of Peapack-Gladstone Bank was recently awarded the Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP) designation from the Institute of Certified Bankers (ICB), a subsidiary of the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Murphy has over 23 years of banking…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Lane closures set for Route 130 work
NJDOT officials announced that single-lane closures are planned this week to perform high-priority pavement repairs along Route 130 in Robbinsville. NJDOT will utilize single-lane closures between the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to mill and repave the travel lanes on Route 130 in each direction north of the intersection with Sharon Road. The…
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Don’t destroy the old Princeton Township School
Elizabeth M. Biscotto, Seminole, Fla. To the editor: My name is Elizabeth Meszar Biscotto. My roots are in Princeton Township since I was born in the house on the corner of Leigh Avenue and Bayard Lane in 1932. Our family lived on the R. W. Johnson estate on Rosedale Road from mid-summer 1934 to early…
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Still worried about Social Security, Medicare
Madlyn Fergang, AARP outreach volunteer To the editor: The nation did not default, but I’m still worried. In the final deal to raise the debt ceiling, Congress agreed to create a “super committee” to reduce the national debt an additional $1.5 trillion. Judging by how difficult it was to find compromise with the risk of…
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Turkey meat recall should send a message
Jonas Bennett, Princeton To the editor: Last week’s recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey by Cargill proves once again that our meat supply is not safe. The product has been linked toa nationwide outbreak of salmonella that killed one person and sickened 76thus far. With $108 billion in annual sales, Cargill is the…
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Change the direction signs at highway entrances
To the editor: July 25, 2009, Diane Schuler killed seven people because she was drunk and entered a Westchester, N.Y. parkway going in the wrong direction. Two years to the day later, Reginald Lee of East Orange was killed because a woman entered and drove in the wrong direction on I-95 in Westchester, N.Y. The…
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