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Dear Pharmacist Saying No Can Reduce Cortisol And Anxiety
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Inside The Law Workers’ Compensation Checklist
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Dear Joel Sibling Rivalry
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Classifieds Page 25.
Wolfgang Puck Page 31.
Horoscope Page 31.
Pipeline Protests Continue
By Chris Lundy MANCHESTER – Environmental groups protested the proposed natural gas pipeline that would come to town at a recent event in front of the Manchester ShopRite on Route 70. Members of groups such as the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, Food & Water Watch, ReThink Energy NJ, and People Over Pipelines came out to speak out against the Southern Reliability Link. This is a pipeline that would join up at a source in Chesterfield and head through various towns for 30 miles. It would end in Manchester. For months, protesters have been demonstrating why the pipeline is dangerous and unnec-
September 2, 2017
Township Positions See Salary Increase
By Sara Grillo MANCHESTER – A recent township ordinance will increase salary ranges for several township positions, including police dispatchers, part-time employees and maintenance workers. “We’ve had a big problem with keeping dispatchers. We’ve lost four in the last half year,” said Councilman Craig Wallis at a recent council meeting. He added that there is a lot of training involved in getting dispatchers up to code, and that
essary. They cited the natural resources at stake for building a gas line through a forest
Manchester offers great working conditions, but many ultimately leave to seek higher salaries, sometimes $20,000 to $30,000 more a year. “This is not bringing them up to the top of the scale around here, it’s not even really to the minimum, it’s probably just to the scale where other towns are paying, but it’s a good step,” he said. Manchester Police Chief Lisa Parker said that the last straw was receiving a call from county dispatch asking (Salary - See Page 9)
PARCC Data Shows Students Are Improving
(Protests - See Page 9)
–Photo courtesy Food and Water Watch Karen Brown, North Hanover, holds a poster showing some of the species in the Pinelands. Katie Smith from the Pinelands Preservation Alliance addresses protesters.
Ovarian Cancer: Who Is Really At Risk?
By Sara Grillo NEW JERSEY – Ovarian cancer will take the lives of over 14,000 women this year, and over 22,000 women will be diagnosed with the disease, according to the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition. But even though that adds up to one in 75
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women being diagnosed within her lifetime, it’s important to take a deeper look at the disease, its symptoms, risk factors, treatment – and most of all – its elusiveness. September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, which was declared by President (Cancer - See Page 4)
By Sara Grillo MANCHESTER – Manchester Schools carved some time out of a recent Board of Education meeting to look at data from the most recent PARCC test administration, the district’s third, and make sense of what that data means for its students. PARCC, which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, is an annual year-end test covering English and Mathematics for students in grades 3-8 and high school. Originally created to align with the more (PARCC - See Page 5)
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