• LAWRENCE: Community calendar

    Thursday, April 16     Blood Drive: Lawrenceville Elementary School Blood Drive, 40 Craven Lane, at Community Blood Council of New Jersey Bloodmobile. 2:30 to 7 p.m. Contact School Nurse Karen Sine by writing to [email protected].     Evening Book Club: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz. “Things have never been easy for…

  • PHILADELPHIA AREA INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (PAISBOA) NAMES FIRST FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    PHILADELPHIA AREA INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS BUSINESS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (PAISBOA) NAMES FIRST FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Emily Miller is the new executive director for the Philadelphia Area Independent Schools Business Officers Association (PAISBOA)

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Three of four budgets approved; Millstone plan rejected

    By Sean Ruppert, The Packet Group    Despite troubling economic times, area voters approved three out of four school budgets in the Messenger-Press coverage area, according to unofficial figures Tuesday night.    Robbinsville, Upper Freehold Regional and Plumsted voters approved their districts’ spending plans, albeit by small margins in some cases.    Millstone voters, however, apparently did not,…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter from the week of April 20

    Kaleanne Esguerra, 19, of Tupelow Row, Princeton Township, was charged with shoplifting an assortment of clothing worth $312.98 from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 1:07 p.m. April 15, police said. She was issued a summons and released.     A Lawrence Plaza apartments resident reported the theft of her 1992 Honda Accord, valued at…

  • WEST WINDSOR: South’s Miller makes impact on relays

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    By the time that Shelby Miller got the baton in the 4xmile at the Mercer County Relays on Saturday, her job simply was to maintain West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s giant lead.    Miller, however, wants to do more than maintain.    Miller is already an impact runner for the Pirate girls, but…

  • CRANBURY: Voters give budget OK

         Cranbury voters gave a $17.6 million budget the thumbs up Tuesday, 274 to 167.      The budget translates into a 1.6 percent increase in the tax levy and carries a school tax rate of 90.95 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. Under that rate, the owner of a home assessed at the township average…

  • Kessler Introduces New Programs for People Living with MS

    By Irene Maslowski Kessler Introduces New Programs for People Living with MS Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation has launched two new wellness programs for individuals living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The programs, offered in collaboration with the New Jersey Metro Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, focus on the physical, emotional and cognitive well-being of…

  • JAMESBURG: Budget squeaks by

    District still awaits absentee ballots      The $12.457 million school budget was narrowly approved Tuesday night, 147 to 141. However, District officials said that they are still awaiting the results of absentee ballots before making the results official.      The budget is 1.5 percent larger than last year’s and  carries a school tax rate increase of…

  • Old News

    ‘State of Play’ and ‘Sugar’ use compelling templates with mediocre results By Elise Nakhnikian I love a good newspaper movie. By that I mean a smart, fast-moving story with lots of moving parts, like The Paper (1994), The Sweet Smell of Success (1957), or His Girl Friday (1940). Movies that capture that odd mix of…

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