• ROBBINSVILLE: Tiger tales: Students hear about new endangered species e-book

    ROBBINSVILLE: Tiger tales: Students hear about new endangered species e-book

    Author Janet Wong (center) and illustrator Sladjana Vasic (fourth row) visited fourth-grade teacher Linda Biondi’s class in Pond Road Middle School on March 30 to talk about their new poetry book on endangered animals, “Once Upon a Tiger,” and answer the students’ questions about the creative process and book publishing. (Staff photo by Joanne Degnan)

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR

    Misleading statement For the Board of Fire Commissioners, Fire District 2, Bordentown Township, Andrew Watson, chairman    The commissioners of Fire District 2 in Bordentown Township must address a seriously misleading statement made by Mayor Dauber regarding the proposed township budget, published March 31, in this newspaper.    Mayor Dauber is quoted, saying: “ . . .the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Candidate Haley supports full-day kindergarten

       To the editor:    The Board of Education is the most difficult job one can volunteer to serve on. It is a position that everyone in the town has an opinion on; whether their children attend our schools or not, because they are stakeholders as taxpayers. I am an independent thinker, who will challenge ideas and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Superintendent continues his budget explanation schedule

       Superintendent Jorden Schiff will meet this week with the Township Committee, a senior citizens’ group and with the general community an open coffee discussion at his office, as he continues his rounds of public meetings to explain and answer questions about the budget.    This week he’ll be at:    • Home School Association meeting at Hillsborough Elementary…

  • LAWRENCE: Trashed but treasured

    Dumpster-diving art contest held at library By Lea Kahn    Take a picture frame found at a yard sale. Add a scrap of lining from an old fur coat, some nuts and bolts, a wristwatch, a length of chain and a latex glove.    The result? Trashed art.    That piece of artwork is among two dozen others…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Don’t balance budgets just by hurting unions

    To the editor:     The recent wave of anti-public sector employee union legislation in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey is appalling. First, the bill that was passed in Wisconsin, originally intended as an economic bill with parts that restricted the collective bargaining of unions, was passed without the parts of the bill that pertained to…

  • Dennis Tyburski Memorial Fundraiser

    Dennis Tyburski Memorial Fundraiser

    By Ann Sikora In December 2010, Family and Community Services of Somerset County (FCS) lost a good friend—Dennis Tyburski. Dennis worked at Mike’s Towing and Recovery in Finderine, but he had a special place in his heart for FCS. Earlier in 2010 Dennis approached FCS to set up a car donation program. Mike’s Towing and Recovery already…

  • MANVILLE: Keeping up Slavic Easter traditions

    MANVILLE: Keeping up Slavic Easter traditions

    Mary Ann Bannworth, a member of the Raritan Valley Slavic Cultural and Heritage So´ciety, offers a presentation about what goes into a traditional Easter basket. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • FLORENCE: Classic movies introduced to high school students

    Charities to benefit for the showings By Amber Cox    FLORENCE — The Great Depression brought hard times and heartache, but it also produced some of the best movies ever made. Their magic brought solace to hard pressed Americans who for a couple hours could lose their troubles in the darkened theater while gazing at the…

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