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BURLINGTON COUNTY: All eight area school budgets fail
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer Bordentown Regional The school budget failed 1,295-981. Incumbents Peggy Gens and Kim Zablow ran unopposed for two open three-year school board seats representing Bordentown Township. Ms. Gens won a seat with 756 votes, and Ms. Zablow earned another with 773 votes. No one ran for a third seat representing the…
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PRINCETON AREA: Volunteer!: Making friends
Phil McAuliffe At the Princeton Public Library, Hannah Schneibner, age 10, enjoys reading to Emma, an 8-year-old therapy dog, as Joe Turner, of Lawrence, looks on. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe
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2010 New Brunswick Jazz Festival
Monica Weeks Primary Contact: Monica Weeks Alternate Contacts: Allen McGriff 732-241-3136 732-718-8220 [email protected] Tracey O’Reggio 908-917-2862 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2010 New Brunswick Jazz Festival Saturday, May 1 and Sunday, May 2, 2010 Christopher’s Bar and Restaurant The Heldrich Hotel 10 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08873 The 2010 New Brunswick Jazz…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Budget defeated; Le, Gillette and Kinst tapped for board seats
Voters turned down the $108,703,334 proposed school budget, with 3,222 voting against it and 2,405 voting for it. Board of Education candidates Thuy Ahn Le and Thomas Kinst also won their bids for the board seats, with Ms. Le netting 3,751 votes and Mr. Kinst picking up 2,526. Incumbent board member Greg Gillette will return…
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HILLSBOROUGH: District restores 12 jobs
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer The district restored 12 positions to the budget, after the Hillsborough Education Association and the Hillsborough Principals and Supervisors Association accepted two-day furloughs and waived professional development reimbursements. The concessions allowed the districts to save $800,000, which it put toward preserving some of the jobs slated for cuts. The board…
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MONTGOMERY: School budget overwhelmingly defeated
Voters in the Montgomery Township School District have defeated the proposed 2010-11 school budget by a vote of 2,514 to 1,721. Lei Yu, Shalini Barghava and Andrea Bradley were elected to the school board.
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The Somerset Valley YMCA Celebrates Healthy Kids Day
By Donna Dass On Saturday, April 17th from 10am – 1pm, the Somerset Valley YMCA’s three branches invited families in the SomersetCounty community to enjoy healthy Kids Day, a fun, free family event that promotes wellness and healthy living. All were also invited to participate in the Camp and Child Care Open Houses. An estimated 500 people…
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Make sure you count vote Tuesday
Dr. Edward Forsthoffer, Hillsborough School budgets have been very much in the news over the last few months. Although I started working on this budget last October, there have been a number of outside influences that have caused me to make several difficult revisions throughout the process. The major obstacle this year has been the…
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Opposing Westerly Road Church expansion
Sarah Hollister of Princeton It is increasingly understood that forests are necessary to human life, yet humans are destroying their forests, tree by tree. If given its way, Westerly Road Church will continue this process in a forested 18 ½ acres on Bunn Drive, where this church plans to clear-cut 44 percent of the…
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