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Ken Weingartner
By: centraljersey.com The winter break is nearly upon the Hopewell Valley boys and girls swim teams, and first-year coaches Karen Upperco and Donny Fillinger are ready to use the time to point the Bulldogs toward continued improvement. Hopewell Valley hosts Hightstown on Thursday before taking a break until a Jan. 4 meet at Princeton. The…
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Farmers had weather-related damages in growing season
By: centraljersey.com TRENTON – United States Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack has designated 16 New Jersey counties as natural disaster areas to assist farmers who suffered losses due to excessive heat and drought during the 2010 growing season. Farmers in Hunterdon and Mercer, as well as Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, , Middlesex,…
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Magazine editor receives New Jersey outstanding community media award
By Ivy Lee recognized for two decades of service to Chinese communities EDISON n Meilun “Ivy” Lee, a pioneer of Chinese news media in New Jersey, was honored by the Organization of Chinese Americans New Jersey Chapter with its Outstanding Community Media Award. Lee, editor and founder of Sino Monthly New Jersey magazine (Sino-Monthly.com), was…
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Joan Ruddiman
By: centraljersey.com With so many books and so little space, Book Notes is choosing this gift-giving season to focus on young adult readers. They are tough to please but if we get it right, they will love us forever. It may seem surprising that in a culture saturated by screens, tweens and teens still love…
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Baldpate closings
By: centraljersey.com The Mercer County Park Commission will close Baldpate Mountain to all visitors on select days due to the annual deer management project. Those dates are: Dec. 16-18, 22-24, 29-31; Jan. 1, 5-8, 12-15, 19-22, 26-29 and Feb. 2-5, 9-12. Exact project dates also will be posted on the various gates leading into the…
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LAWRENCE:Rider students celebrate the diversity of the holidays
By Lea Kahn Sarah Perez-Klausner was aware of Hanukkah and Christmas, and she also knew that there was another holiday called Kwanzaa but she said she never really understand that holiday until Rider University’s annual Celebration of Lights festival. ”I never really understood Kwanzaa,” the Rider University student said. “I learned more about it.…
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NB swimmers impress
By: centraljersey.com The Northern Burlington High co-ed swim team saw 19 swimmers drop time from the first meet to the second. The Greyhounds opened the season with an 89-80 loss to Cinnaminson, the closest result between the teams in five years. Logan Barnes, Tori Barnes, Danielle Caruso, and Greta VanVeldhuisen had strong meets for Northern…
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Gov. vetoes establishment of full racing schedule for two tracks
Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed the New Jersey Racing Commission’s establishment of a full standardbred and thoroughbred racing schedule for Monmouth Park and the Meadowlands, as the administration continues its review of recommendations to end annual taxpayer subsidies for the horse racing industry in an attempt to make the industry self-sustaining. According to a press…
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Angler awaits confirmation of world record yellowfin
FISH ON RON NUZZOLO Off the hook! The Vagabond longrange sport fisher was on a 10-day hunt for giant yellowfins and they returned with a monster. A historic, once-in-a-lifetime battle was won by Mike Livingston, 63, of Sunland, Calif., a longtime angler who retired recently as a school superintendent. Livingston caught the world’s first 400-pound-plus…
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