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Church holds Habitat benefit
Trinity Church’s Friends of Music will present a concert to benefit the Bucks County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity on May 2 at 4 p.m. The program will include Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F, K 192, works by Rachmaninoff, Gardner, Rutter, Scott, Sweelinck and Tye, and several spirituals. Soloists Janet Fryling (soprano), Dorothy Cardella (alto),…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Longtime incumbent loses re-election
By Davy James, Staff Writer Five-term incumbent Anna Tupe lost her bid for another term on the Board of Education, as incumbents Harry Delgado and Deborah Taylor were joined in victory Tuesday by challenger Daniel Boyle. Capt. Delgado, a township police officer, received 2,879 votes, Ms. Taylor received 2,426 votes and Mr. Boyle received 2,406…
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PET TALK: Gus: He’s no longer a ‘miserable’ cat
By Dr. Daniel Eubanks Seven years ago, my son and his wife adopted a cat. He was a standard issue, garden-variety alley cat. They named him Gus after Gus Librizzi, the long familiar Lambertville resident, who was the barber forever in New Hope. The resemblance implication presumably was Mr. Librizzi’s legendary “catlike quickness.” (I guess…
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GUEST COLUMN: With spring comes the beginning of tick season
By Francesca Calderone-Steichen The Hopewell Valley Deer Management Task Force reminds residents that spring is the time when ticks emerge, and that some of those ticks may be deer ticks, a tiny tick about the size of a sesame seed. Deer ticks are spread by deer and mice and can carry the bacterium for Lyme…
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AROUND CRANBURY: Friends of Library planning town’s biggest book sale
By Lorraine Sedor, Columnist The biggest book sale in the history of the Friends of the Cranbury Public Library will take place Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.! The sale will be held in the Cranbury School cafeteria. Entrance is through the library. Please note there is no Friday evening pre-sale. So…
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JAMESBURG: Voters nix school spending plan in tight vote
By Maria Prato, Staff Writer JAMESBURG The borough school district was in an unfortunate majority Tuesday, as its 2010-2011 budget joined more than half of spending plans statewide that were defeated at the polls. The $11.9 million budget was defeated 315-284, with turnout nearly doubling from 2009. ”The budget not passing is devastating, obviously,”…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Police chief find fault with study, economic leadership
By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN After staying silent on the issue for more than a month, Police Chief James Eufemia said this week that he does not support a consultant’s recommendation that East Windsor take over his department’s duties. More surprising, he criticized his bosses for not redeveloping the vacant rug mill and…
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CRANBURY: Township voters endorse budget by wide margin
By Maria Prato, Staff Writer CRANBURY Cranbury voters came out in large numbers to pass the school district’s $16.7 million budget Tuesday in a 514-291 vote. Of the 2,073 registered voters in Cranbury, 812 came out to cast their ballot, nearly double the 444 that voted in last year’s school elections. ”I feel very…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Fried sees little impact if Hightstown drops EMS
By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE — If nearby Hightstown were to go with a different emergency medical services provider, as officials there have indicated, the move would have little impact on the township’s budget, Mayor Dave Fried said this week. But the mayor said he believes it might be difficult for Hightstown to find…
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