Word: trenton
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...summers ago, when my wife Luci and I split a house with others at the Jersey shore, we had taken in a few Trenton Thunder games. A kid named Garcia-something was playing short for the Sox Double-A club that year, and he was worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind...
SETTLED. Civil rights suit involving minority victims of a 1998 police shooting on the New Jersey Turnpike; for $12.9 million; by New Jersey's attorney general; in Trenton. The case sparked a national outcry over racial profiling...
...children most at risk of becoming criminals, he was ridiculed and called a racist. But since then, a movement toward residential learning has been quietly gaining steam--and often wins support from the parents of troubled youth. Residential schools focusing on needy children have opened in Philadelphia, West Trenton, N.J., and Washington, and three pilot programs have started in Minnesota...
...children most at risk of becoming criminals, he was ridiculed and called a racist. But since then, a movement toward residential learning has been quietly gaining steam - and often wins support from the parents of troubled youth. Residential schools focusing on needy children have opened in Philadelphia, West Trenton, N.J., and Washington, and three pilot programs have started in Minnesota...
Edison focuses on instilling pride and discipline in youngsters who may have known precious little of either. At Edison's Granville Charter School, which opened two years ago in a former government building in Trenton, N.J., board chairman William Granville Jr. recalls how students initially covered the walls with graffiti and ran shouting down hallways. Today, after hours of instruction devoted to such concepts as dignity and self-respect, orderly students file through spotless white corridors and volunteer to sweep litter off the carpeted floors...