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BORDENTOWN: Wrestling building on success
By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor Just because the Bordentown High School wrestling team graduated several talented athletes off a squad that went 24-8 last season, Coach Joe Sprague doesn’t see that as a reason to lower expectations. “Like I told the kids, just because we don’t have as much talent, that doesn’t mean…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Clark-Diggs takes place in ‘Hall’
By Justin Feil, The Packet Group Joetta Clark Diggs may be retired from track and field, but the Hillsborough resident is far from slowing down. She continues to do motivational speaking across the country, runs her Joetta Clark Diggs Sports Foundation that will offer free camps for the 10th straight year, has released her first…
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Valley schools kindergarten registration
Begins Jan. 11 Kindergarten registration for the 2010-11 school year will begin Jan. 11 and end April 1 for parents of children anticipating entering kindergarten in the Hopewell Valley Regional School District next fall. (Children must be 5 on or before Oct. 1, 2010.) Registration forms will be available online after Dec. 15 through…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Students’ project to brighten soldiers’ holidays
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Woods Road Elementary School’s second-graders reached for stickers, glue, construction and wrapping paper Dec. 3 materials needed to make holiday cards during an activity planned just two days prior. While holiday music played from the laptop at the front of the room, the students worked on the thank-you…
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‘Train in the distance’
Tom Adelman, Pennington A new group has formed on Facebook to promote local news and neighborhood events. Titled “Train in the Distance,” the group can be joined only after signing up for Facebook, which is free of cost and obligation. This group is open to the public and provides a common location at which…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Township to score with big county grant
Football fields expected done in spring By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor ROBBINSVILLE — The township soon should have close to a quarter-million dollars to go toward the ongoing project to create three football fields at Meadowbrook Park. Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes announced late last week that Robbinsville is the latest municipality to benefit from…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter
Jayna Talamini, 38, of Ringoes, was charged with disorderly conduct after she started yelling at two other drivers involved in a three-car motor vehicle accident on Auten Road at 2:05 p.m. Nov. 28. Police said Ms. Talamini was taken into custody after she began yelling, flailing her arms and disrupting traffic on the road. Ms.…
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Senior corner
The Manville Senior Citizens meet at 12:30 p.m. every second Thursday of the month at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2290 located on Washington Avenue. The club is open to new members who are residents of Manville, age 60 and older, and age 55 if disabled. October will be the last month for new…
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HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Annual tree lighting held Saturday
Phil McAuliffe Three-year-old Eloise Marshall of Hopewell talks to Santa as her parents, Stephanie and Jeff, photograph her encounter.
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