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Common calendar, Packet papers, Nov. 24
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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‘They are having fun and that is what it is all about’
Hopewell Valley Central High School (HVCHS) can add Special Olympics Unified Champion School to the school’s list of achievements after earning the distinction this year. The Special Olympics recognizes a school as Unified Champion School if they demonstrate commitment to inclusion with meeting 10 standards of excellence. Under those standards are activities such as Special…
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Lawrence municipal court judge cited for misconduct will not seek reappointment
Lawrence Township Municipal Court Judge Lewis J. Korngut, who has been cited by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, will not seek reappointment to the bench when his term expires in February 2024. Korngut stated his intention to not seek reappointment in his Oct. 30 response to a three-count formal complaint filed against him by…
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‘We have hope for the future’
New Jersey is experiencing a 23.4% decline in unsheltered homelessness, according to the state’s Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The DCA also announced that there was an increase in access to prevention programs, which aid to keep people from becoming homeless, at a press conference inside Homefront in Lawrenceville on Nov. 13. “The latest data…
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Princeton school board awards contract for roof replacements
Roof replacements at Princeton High School and Princeton Middle School are on the horizon. The Princeton Public Schools Board of Education awarded a $4.4 million contract to Safeway Contracting, Inc., which is based in Union, for the work at a meeting October. It was one of eight bidders for the work. The bids ranged from…
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Womanspace’s Communities of Light set for first weekend in December
Communities of Light, which is Womanspace’s signature fundraising event, will culminate at dusk Dec. 3, when households throughout Mercer County place luminaries along their driveways and sidewalks. Businesses and municipal governments will show their support for the victims of domestic violence and sexual assault when they put out luminaries in front of their locations on…
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Pedestrian struck by vehicle in Hopewell Borough
A 48-year-old Hopewell Borough man suffered serious injuries when he was struck by a vehicle as he was crossing East Broad Street at Elm Street Nov. 18, according to the Hopewell Township Police Department. The vehicle, which was being driven west on East Broad Street by a 61-year-old Lambertville man, struck the pedestrian as he…
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Rematriations’ return Native Americans to their land
by Jay Watson, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation It goes almost without saying – but I’ll say it anyway – that all the land in New Jersey once belonged to the Indigenous people who lived here for millennia before European colonization. After 400 years of wars, treaties, forced removals and migrations, and unfair government policies, little land…
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‘A season to remember’
Fifty years ago, when players from the Lawrence Cardinals football team entered summer workouts, they did not know what to expect from the upcoming 1973 season. What the team did know is that they had players with determination, who would be close to each other, physical, and on a mission to continue winning from the…
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