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HILLSBOROUGH: Creative entries add to math contest’s fun
Kelly Wishard shows her winning button design. Photo by Fred Salz
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President
Barbara Wicklund The Berkshire Valley Basset Hound Club, based in Central New Jersey, will hold a low-cost microchip clinic for dogs and cats on Sunday, May 23, 8:30 to 11 a.m., at the Harlingen Venterinary Clinic, 10 Sunset Rd., Belle Mead. This is an opportunity for area residents to protect their pets through the American…
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REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Help Christine Gianacaci’s foundation help children
By John Tredrea, Staff Writer Everyone, regardless of religious affiliation or ideas, knows what the expression “keep the faith” means. I can’t imagine anyone keeping the faith better than Hopewell Township residents John and Jean Gianacaci. Their daughter, Christine, died at age 22 in the Haiti earthquake Jan. 12. She had gone to the island…
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STOCKTON: Pasta, art event set
At Stockton Firehouse on May 8 The Stockton Borough School’s PTO is sponsoring its eighth annual Spaghetti Dinner and Art Auction at the Stockton Firehouse on Saturday, May 8. This year’s event will include many new features, such as a buffet-style dinner served from 4-7:30 p.m., an outdoor auction tent, assorted desserts, raffle baskets, and…
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Footprints Walk 2010: "Rebooted"
By Terry Adams Crisis Ministry’s SIXTH ANNUAL FOOTPRINTS WALK SATURDAY, JUNE 5, FOCUSES ON TEAMING UP (TRENTON)— Footprints Walk 2010: “Rebooted” will pick up the pace Saturday, June 5, as the 6th annual fundraising event for the Crisis Ministry welcomes Mercer County neighbors to walk the path out of poverty. “We’re expanding this year’s…
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PENNINGTON: Tax rate static; joint budget analysis idea OK’d
Councilman Joseph Lawver: ‘Unless we actually designate people to sit down and do (what the resolution says), nothing will happen’ By John Tredrea, Staff Writer Pennington’s municipal tax rate stays at 42 cents per $100 of assessed property value, same as last year, under a 2010 budget introduced by Borough Council Monday night. A public…
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Intercap lawsuit doesn’t address needs of WW
19 residents of West Windsor It was really good to see the informative letter from Mayor Hsueh regarding InterCap’s misleading West Windsor-wide mailing. The mayor focused on erroneous statements about the lawsuit InterCap has filed against the township, but there were other misleading elements in the mailer which also should be aired. The mailer…
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MANVILLE: Wrestlers to pin down funds for Scouts
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer It is time for the semiannual National Wrestling Superstars All Star Pro Wrestling fundraiser this Friday night at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Washington Avenue The event begins at 7:45 p.m. with a night of big wrestling favorites. The fundraiser benefits the Manville Boy Scout Troop 193…
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An eye-opener
Cora Berke, Lambertville We have all heard the news that South Hunterdon’s budget was defeated for the third year in a row. But have we all heard that the proposed tax levy exceeds New Jersey’s adequacy amount by $3,393,188? Last week’s article in the Beacon was surely an eye-opener! Now is the time to…
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