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FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: From the Aug. 27 edition
Peg Dotson Peg Dotson Tel: 499-3807 Fax: 499-3807 E-mail: [email protected] A car wash will be held Saturday, Aug. 29, from 1-5 p.m. at Roebling Bank, Route 130 and Delaware Avenue. Suggested donation $5 car, $7 truck. * * * Francis W. Robbins American Legion Auxiliary Post 194, will have a meeting Wednesday,…
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TANGENTS: The energizing effect of third-graders
John Saccenti, Managing Editor It had been a long time since I participated in a fire drill, but there I was Monday morning, filing out of my daughter’s elementary school with students and teachers. The alarm’s nightmarish screech had caught me off guard, and I froze for a few minutes as hundreds of girls and…
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PLUMSTED: Feral cat issue subject for new panel
By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer PLUMSTED The township is hoping to reduce its feral cat population with the recent creation of a Feral Cat Trap-Neuter-Release Welfare Committee, according to Mayor Ron Dancer. Plumsted is the first town in The Messenger- Press coverage area to establish such a committee. The township…
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CRANBURY: New rules for road work
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer CRANBURY — The Police Department soon will have a broader scope of authority when it comes to roadwork in the township as a result of an ordinance the Township Committee passed Monday. Committee members unanimously passed an ordinance that makes police an integral part of the traffic planning on maintenance…
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Let’s not fuel our unhealthy addiction
It was inevitable, we suppose, that as soon as the price of gasoline hit $4 a gallon, all the tired old arguments for opening up the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of New Jersey to oil drilling would be trotted out again. And it was inevitable, especially with sticker shock at the pump coinciding…
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PNC should help build community
Guy Butterworth, Cranbury According to the front page article in last week’s The Cranbury Press, the PNC Bank apparently can see its way neither to lower significantly the asking price for its property on Cranbury’s Main Street nor to donate the property outright for a library/community meeting space. I am assured that the property might…
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MILLSTONE: Miller rides Lucky Jim to victory
By Ken Weingartner, Special Writer MILLSTONE Luck had nothing to do with it. Lucky Jim is simply good. Lucky Jim won Saturday’s $600,000 Breeders Crown Trot at the Meadowlands Racetrack by 1½ lengths over Arch Madness. It was Lucky Jim’s 17th victory in 18 races this year and pushed his seasonal earnings…
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Campaign 08: Let the games begin for real
Let the games begin. No, not the Olympic Games. They’re history. Not the Friday night high school football games, the Thursday-through-Saturday college games or the Sunday and Monday night NFL games. They’re mere spectator sports. Not even the blatant gamesmanship of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. They’re just the exhibition season, the hype that…
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BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS: From the Aug. 27 edition
Please send items for this column to [email protected] with the words “Bordentown Jottings” in the subject line. Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive. All township seniors age 55 and over welcome. Events schedule for September: Meetings…
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