Tag: Pennington
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Mercer County Park Commission held a tree planting event at Rosedale Park
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MERCER COUNTY PARK COMMISSION The Mercer County Park Commission held a tree planting event at Rosedale Park in Pennington. More than 80 large stock trees have been planted by volunteers.
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High school ice hockey season delayed with state’s temporary suspension of indoor sports
The Princeton High School (PHS) and Hopewell Valley Central High School (HVCHS) athletic departments, along with others statewide, are now adapting to Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order temporarily suspending indoor high school sports practices and competitions. The issued order, which goes into effect on Dec. 5, comes as the state faces the second wave of…
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Seven Pennington School seniors to play Division I sports in college
Seven Pennington School seniors signed NCAA National Letters of Intent to play Division I sports in college. The students are Jack Borden (soccer, Lafayette College), David Curtiss (swimming, NC State University), Kylie Daigle (soccer, Rutgers University), Ben Eckerson (swimming, Virginia Tech), Oliver Gassman (swimming, University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Jordan Mahony (soccer, American University), and…
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Dozens of trees planted in Rosedale Park through efforts of ShopRite, Kimberly-Clark, One Tree Planted
Donning gloves and bearing shovels, nearly 30 volunteers visited Rosedale Park in Pennington on Oct. 27 to plant trees and celebrate a sustainability campaign that will result in 25,000 tree plantings in communities where ShopRite stores operate. In partnership with Kimberly-Clark and One Tree Planted, the event highlighted a joint effort to help protect the…
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Opinion: Vote to move our schools in the right direction
I am a parent in Pennington with children who have yet to enter the school system. When they do, I look forward to having my children enter a school system that is more diverse than the one I grew up in (I was one of a handful of Asian students growing up) and reflects where…
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Opinion: Please avoid conflict of interest on the school board
It was an honor to serve on the Hopewell Valley regional school board from, I believe, 2012-16. Funny story about how I originally got involved. There was a controversy at the time about whether a teacher who served on the Board of Education should be serving on Personnel Committee, which was the parent committee to…
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The Pennington School names its Cum Laude seniors
Twelve Pennington School seniors were inducted as student members of the school’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society, within the top 10% of their class as determined by grade point average, one of the highest honors the school can confer. The new members of Cum Laude, named on Oct. 13, are William Bernal, Sophia Cano,…
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Yearlings of New Jersey sires lead sales at auction
Yearlings from New Jersey sires Muscle Hill and Walner led the way at the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky. Muscle Hill led trotting sires with $4.81 million in gross sales and a $192,400 average for 25 horses sold, according to information provided by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Walner was second in gross…
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Global Guide recounts journey fleeing from Iraq, starting new life in U.S.
Artist, designer and educator Yaroub Al-Obaidi opened The Pennington School’s Global Speaker Series by asking students to list the 10 things they would put in their backpack if they had to leave their homes today. As a Global Guide for the Penn Museum, Al-Obaidi shared his long journey as a refugee from Iraq, through Syria,…
