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Taking it to the hoop
Allentown High School’s Bobby Millar (r) drives past a West Windsor-Plainsboro North defender during the Summer Prime Time Shootout Basketball Tournament hosted by Allentown. ERIC SUCAR staff
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Redbird field hockey team hit hard by graduation
13 seniors graduated from Allentown’s county championship team BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Last season was a memorable one for Allentown High School junior varsity field hockey coach and assistant varsity coach Dana Thompson. She worked with head coach Mary Ellen McCarthy in guiding the Redbirds to the Mercer County Tournament championship. Although McCarthy said some…
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New program helps Millstone schools reduce utility costs
Company to recognize school district’s energy conservation The Millstone Township School District has saved $240,000 in 16 months with energy-efficient strategies. Since forming an alliance with Energy Education, a national energy conservation company, the district has achieved a 24 percent cost savings in energy costs, according to a press release from Energy Education. “Reaching this…
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No libraries, lunch aides, band
Effects of failed budgets and state aid cuts will be visible this school year BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — Students and their parents will notice changes in the schools come September, and many of those changes won’t be good. The Board of Education and school district administrators took time out of their Aug. 9…
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Protecting sources means protecting the public
During the course of its investigation into the current Gulf of Mexico oil spill, The Associated Press was given information from the then-office of Mineral Management Services (MMS) that was not making a lot of sense. As millions of gallons of crude spewed into the Gulf waters and the oversight by MMS officials on BP’s…
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N.J. would not be able to afford an Alzheimer’s epidemic
Today there are as many as 5.3 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, including approximately 350,000 individuals and family caregivers living right here in New Jersey. According to the Alzheimer’s Association report, “Changing the Trajectory of Alzheimer’s Disease: A National Imperative,” Alzheimer’s disease will exact a significant toll on the U.S. over the next 40…
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Don’t forget kids who walk from Allentown
Iagree the Upper Freehold Regional School District needs to make accommodations for the “new” walkers to the elementary school, but what about the children from Allentown Borough who have been walking for 80 years without sidewalks or crossing guards? I have never heard the district address these students. And, yes, we have been offered paid…
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Monmouth County lost its ‘guardian angel’
I first met Judith Stanley Coleman in the early 1980s when many Monmouth County residents were fighting to save 400 acres on the Holmdel banks of the Swimming River Reservoir from being developed as 410 housing units, a golf course and a sewage treatment plant that was planned to discharge effluent to ground and surface…
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