• Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Real-life trumpeters become part of the pageantry.

  • MANVILLE: Board plans search for new funding

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Goal-setting talks also envision policy updates, added communication    The Board of Education’s goals for the 2009-10 school year include increasing communication with the community, continuing updates on the district policy manual and exploring alternate funding sources.    Those were the goals the board established at a meeting with New Jersey School…

  • NBC boys’ basketball hoping to rebound after tough 2008-09 season

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     The Northern Burlington High School boys’ basketball team may be coming off a 7-18 season (0-10 in the division, but it does have the talent to do something about that in 2009-10.     Northern Burlington returns four starters, including seniors Boomer Walton (a 6’ 3” forward), Jacabari Bradley (a…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Soldiers From Our Streets

    A legal leader of U.S. forces, Giaquinto proud & optimistic By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories on local veterans of the Afghanistan invasion or the war in Iraq.    Iraq is not the same dangerous chaotic place it was at the height of the war in…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Annual tree lighting held Saturday

    HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Annual tree lighting held Saturday

    Phil McAuliffe From left, Jack Elliott, 3, Clara Wood, 6, and her sister Harper, 2, all of Hopewell, look at the Christmas tree that had just been lit in Hopewell Borough.

  • Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Bronze trumpeters herald the pageantry of the palio.

  • Montgomery school chief lauds bond vote

    Earl Kim, Montgomery school superintendent     On behalf of the Montgomery Township Board of Education, I would like to thank the residents of Montgomery and Rocky Hill as well as your newspaper (The Princeton Packet) for the time taken to better understand the school district’s recent referendum.    Your reporting and our residents’ thoughtful consideration resulted…

  • MANVILLE: Borough takes delayed state aid in stride

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    With a recent announcement the state’s consolidated municipal property tax relief payments will not be paid to municipalities for December, Manville has learned the state will withhold $60,539.20 as the year draws to a close.    In a statement from the Division of Local Government Services on Dec. 1, municipalities were…

  • In the military

       Marine Corps Pfc. Jonathan W. Schack, a 2001 graduate of Hillsborough High School, recently graduated from the Aviation Logistics Tactical Information Systems Course with Marine Detachment Naval Suport Activity, Athens, Ga.    During the 25-week course, Pfc. Schack received technical training on computer network information systems operation, installation, maintenance and repair. Pfc. Schack also received training…

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