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HILLSBOROUGH: Steps Together uses running to help others
Steps Together, the Hillsborough-based nonprofit organization that raises funds for 18 area families in need of financial support due to medical circumstances, will benefit from a united walking/running team that will participate in the Steeplechase distance walk/run Sunday, Sept. 27, in Hillsborough. Rather than organize its own run, Steps Together organizes a team to participate…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Schools again receive top national ranking
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor As the school district prepares for classes to start Sept. 3, the school board celebrated nationwide recognition Monday night. Superintendent Jorden Schiff said that Newsweek, an online magazine, again had named Hillsborough near the top in its annual ranking. Dr. Schiff said Newsweek ranked Hillsborough as 42nd best high school…
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PRINCETON: Interim principal appointed for Riverside Elementary School
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer An interim-principal for Riverside Elementary School was appointed Tuesday from among the school faculty to fill in for the regular principal who is on a paid leave of absence until the middle of October. Vocal music teacher Paul Chapin took over effective Monday, and will lead a school of…
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PRINCETON: University to install eruv around campus, parts of town, for observant Jews
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Princeton University will install an eruv, or a virtual boundary used as part of Jewish religious law, around most of campus and parts of town to enable observant Jews to carry essential items outdoors without breaking the Sabbath. The boundary relies upon utility poles, fences, power wires and natural…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Special meetings start on affordable housing
Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — The Planning Board held its first of four monthly special meetings on the topic of affordable housing. Karen Murphy, the board chairwoman, said the meeting held Aug. 20 was a first step in the development of the housing plan element of Hopewell Township’s Master Plan that, in part,…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Roadwork is continuing in two locations
Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNHIP — Mercer County officials have announced that road construction work is ongoing at two locations within Hopewell Township. At Bayberry Road, east of Morris Drive, there is construction work to complete replacement of a bridge along Bayberry Road over a tributary of Honey Branch Brook. The work is slated…
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REGION: Officials: PennEast letter about surveying land for pipeline is ‘misleading’
Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Owners of land that lies within the route of the proposed PennEast pipeline have received letters in their mail recently that at least two groups opposed to the pipeline say is misleading. The main objection to the letter seems to be its rather strident heading, which reads “Notice…
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REGION: Hundreds stage ‘peaceful’ protest against Penn East pipeline
Hundreds of opponents of the proposed PennEast pipeline gathered at Veteran’s Park in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning for “March Across The River: Stop PennEast” — a peaceful protest of the proposed PennEast pipeline. The march began with a Leni Lenape “Prayer to the River,” then proceeded over the bridge across the Delaware…
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POLICE BLOTTER: Aug. 27, 2015
Lt. Christopher H. Kascik of the Hopewell Township Police Department reported: Aug. 7 at 1:30 p.m., Officer Nicholas Sparaco stopped a vehicle on Pennington Road for a traffic violation (a suspended license). A passenger in the vehicle, Adrienne A Ervine, 25, of Sullivan Way in Ewing had a warrant for her arrest from Hopewell Township.…
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