• Voters to decide on budgets, candidates

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    Cranbury, Jamesburg and Monroe will hold their school elections April 27, and each school district has a different story to tell.    While each district is struggling to stay under the 2 percent tax levy cap, they each have different spending plans on how to do so.    The proposed 2011-12 spending…

  • MONROE – Monroe board candidates discuss issues

    MONROE – Monroe board candidates discuss issues

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    MONROE — While the issue of state aid is on the minds of all of Monroe’s Board of Education candidates in this election, each of the four candidates also have their own variety of concerns.    The candidates up for re-election this year are Kathy Leonard, Kathy Kolupanowich and Ken Chiarella.…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Partnering for preservation

    PRINCETON AREA: Partnering for preservation

    Small World Coffee Owner Jessica Durrie, left, and D&R Greenway Land Trust president & CEO, Linda Mead, display ‘Love’ T-shirt. Sold at ‘The Love Show,’ recent art exhibition fundraiser at Small World for D&R Greenway, this souvenir helped raise $1,300 to further preservation and stewardship in New Jersey.

  • Legion Honors Members for Continuous Membership

    Legion Honors Members for Continuous Membership

    From left: Gary Cooper, Post 401 Commander, John Dye, Jr., and William Bason

  • COLUMBUS: Young Greyhounds gaining experience

    Baseball showing potential By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group    Rick Doppler knows he has a young baseball team at Northern Burlington High School this season.    He also knows that could bode well for the future.    ”We’re very young,” Doppler said. “We start two freshmen and a sophomore in the infield. But we still want to…

  • College Financial Aid Planning

    Kevin Simme FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                              For further information contact: April 21, 2011                                                                          Kevin Simme   (609) 799-2500 FREE  College Financial Aid Workshop At The Hickory Corner Library in East Windsor “Helping Parents Take Control of the Financial Aid Process” A special FREE workshop will be held at Mercer County Library – Hickory Corner Branch,…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Robbery suspect arrested at work
  • LETTER: Support Mansfield school budget

    Alison Perrone, president, Columbus Home and School Association    There are 716 reasons why I urge you to go out on April 27 and vote yes for the Mansfield Township school budget. Your yes vote is an investment in the futures of the 716 children enrolled in the Mansfield Township Elementary Schools. Your yes vote means…

  • ’Places of excellence’

    Daniel J. O’Connor Pennington     The opinions expressed in this letter are mine and do not necessarily represent those of the other members of the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education, of which I am a member and serve as the chairman of its Finance and Facilities Committee.    Over the past several weeks, Thomas Smith…

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