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ROBBINSVILLE: POLICE BEAT
Shawn Batra, 23, of Wycklow Drive, was charged July 5 with driving while intoxicated. Mr. Batra was pulled over on Route 130 South for failing to maintain his lane, police said. He also was charged with failure to maintain lane, careless driving, reckless driving and failure to provide an insurance card. * * * Duane…
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MILLSTONE: Principal leaving middle school
by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer MILLSTONE — The Millstone Middle School principal has resigned after working in the district for seven years. Michelle Vella is leaving Millstone to be the principal of the Orange Avenue School, a grades 3-8 school in Cranford, Union County. It presents an opportunity for Ms. Vella to move and…
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MANSFIELD: Energy-saving audits available to farms
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer MANSFIELD — A new energy audit program may have some local farmers seeing a new kind of green. The nonprofit South Jersey Resource Conservation and Development Council in Columbus has teamed up with Vermont-based business EnSave to offer farm energy audits. Earlier this month, EnSave trained five New Jersey residents…
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BURLINGTON COUNTY: County steps up patrols on trains
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer Several local towns are joining in on a county effort to crack down on crime along New Jersey Transit’s RiverLINE. Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Florence are among the municipalities working with the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department to occasionally patrol all RiverLINE trains and stations in Burlington County to minimize…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Program seeks local weather observers
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is looking for volunteer weather observers in our area. CoCoRaHS, a nationwide volunteer precipitation-observing network, welcomed New Jersey into the program in early 2008. The rapidly expanding precipitation monitoring program now has more than 10,000 active volunteer observers in 46 states and well over 100 in…
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Candidates clash over budget
Stephen Monson of Bordentown Township, Democratic candidate for Township Committee To the editor: Once again the citizens of Bordentown Township are being treated to fantasy over facts. At the July 13 Township Committee meeting, Mr. (Robert) Delaney, acting as the surrogate for Committeeman (Mark) Roselli, attempted to place sole blame on Democrat Committeemen (James) Cann…
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Hindi Class Offered This Fall at MCCC
By Saveria Symons Hindi Class Offered This Fall at Mercer County Community College WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — Beginning this fall , Hindi will be the newest foreign language class offered at Mercer County Community College, joining a long list of language offerings including Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, and Polish, along with Spanish, French and Italian. Most…
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PRINCETON: Environmental awards planned by YMCA
The Princeton Family YMCA is requesting nominations from the public for its 2009 “Centennial Awards” program and reception. Named in honor of the YMCA’s 100th year milestone celebrated last year, the annual “Centennial Awards” event honors four to five distinguished individuals in a profession or field of achievement. This year, the award will be presented…
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SUSTAINABLE LAWRENCE: Eco tip – Make next year’s fireworks green
By Laura Lynch Now that the Fourth of July holiday is over we can tell you something about the holiday you probably wouldn’t have wanted to hear. We’re going to give you a year to get used to the fact that fireworks pollute. There are two methods of propelling fireworks into the sky:…
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