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HILLSBOROUGH: Town’s insurance claims, rates drop
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer In a presentation about insurance savings in Hillsborough, Michael Smith, the township’s risk management consultant, announced April 28 that, with its lowered lost time ratio from on-the-job injuries in 2008, Hillsborough is one of the three safest municipalities for workers among the towns included in the Central Jersey Joint Insurance…
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WEST WINDSOR: Campaign maneuvers occupy council meeeting
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Tempers flared, and accusations flew at the final Township Council meeting Monday night, the last such session before next Tuesday’s municipal election. Things became heated during a discussion of the township’s 2009 budget in which council President Charlie Morgan accused township Administrator Chris Marion of ignoring council…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Twin Pines cell tower project is under way
Tower expected to be operational next month By John Tredrea, Staff Writer Construction has begun on a T-Mobile cell phone tower at the Twin Pines tract in southeastern Hopewell Township. The tower is expected to be operational next month. T-Mobil originally planned to put cell antennas onto a Trenton Water Co. storage tower, located across…
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A few questions for school board
Norm Goldman, Hopewell Township Why a delay in reacting to the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education president’s April 2 letter, which highlighted a past history of administrative musical chairs? It was his response to a well-meaning plea for examining administrative overload at the top, a claim also raised by sitting board members during…
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Share your reasons
Hopewell Valley school board On behalf of the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, we wish to express our deep gratitude to the voters of Hopewell Valley who supported our budget for the 2009-10 school year. We appreciate your confidence in this spending plan and we pledge to continue to work hard in seeing that…
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MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school
Karen Ziemianek serves cookies while reading Robert Munsch’s “Get Out of Bed” during Weston School’s storytelling event. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara
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High school honor roll
Manville High School announced the third marking period honor rolls. Ninth grade High honor roll: Audriana Formanowski Honor roll: Jamie Alpaugh, Tyler Alpizar, Matthew Bowden, Ashley Crespo-Egas, Richards Cubero, Nicholas Galaini, Kristofer Grimm, Ericka Guevara, Peter Hando, Brooke Lathi, Devon Lawrence, Douglas Leubner, Megan Loriot, Luismael Monterroso, Rebecca Rogers, Vanessa Velez, Jennifer Wanjohi, Kristen Wells,…
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HILLSBOROUGH When casual phrases leave deep wounds
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer ”Whoa.” The single-word, disbelieving exclamation was the only comment escaping a freshman student’s mouth when sociologist Paula Rodriguez Rust told an auditorium filled with students the last message 13-year-old Ryan Patrick Halligan received before hanging himself in his bathroom: “The world would be a better place if you killed yourself.”…
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