Pennington Borough History from History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men by Major E. M. Woodward & John F. Hageman, 1883. Accessed September 1, 2014.
BiographyArchived February 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Kwame Anthony Appiah. Accessed November 19, 2012. "Kwame Anthony Appiah has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine."
Harrison, Andrew. "Angarone appointed newest member of Pennington Council", Hopewell News, February 8, 2022. Accessed June 15, 2022. "The Pennington Council has appointed Katrina Angarone to fill former Councilwoman Beverly Mills’s vacant seat on the governing body. The council unanimously voted to appoint Angarone to the unfilled seat on the council at a meeting on Feb. 7. Angarone was one of three candidates nominated by the Pennington Democratic Committee to fill the council vacancy.... Mills resignation from the governing body went into effect on Jan. 6 and was announced at the council’s reorganization meeting on Jan. 5."
Harrison, Andrew. "Lawver resigns; Davy appointed Pennington’s new mayor", Hopewell News, June 9, 2021. Accessed June 15, 2022. "Former Pennington Councilman James Davy was appointed Pennington’s new mayor following the recent resignation of former Mayor Joe Lawver. Davy was appointed through a unanimous vote by the Borough Council at a council meeting on June 7.... Davy now succeeds Lawver, whose resignation was effective June 6. He fills Lawver’s unexpired term until Dec. 31, 2023."
John Tanguay, Columbia Lions. Accessed August 11, 2020. "Hometown: Pennington, N.J.; High School: Hopewell Valley"
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"Himes Reaches Out to War-Weary Republicans"Archived October 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Jim Himes for Congress. Accessed February 15, 2011. "He was raised by 'a working single mom' in the small town of Pennington, N.J., and attended 'a decent public school.' When he brought home an A minus, his mother would ask, 'What went wrong?'"
Biography, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman. Accessed January 3, 2019. "Watson Coleman and her husband William reside in Ewing Township and are blessed to have three sons; William, Troy, and Jared and three grandchildren; William, Kamryn and Ashanee."
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About UsArchived September 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Hopewell Valley Regional High School. Accessed September 25, 2017. "Hopewell Valley Regional School District, as it functions today, has been a regionalized operation since 1965 when voters of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough approved a plan to consolidate their schools. But the first consolidation of local schools actually occurred in 1894 when the 14 separate districts, operating one-room schoolhouses throughout the valley, agreed to merge and be governed by a single school board."
About the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of EducationArchived November 8, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed March 2, 2020. "The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education is a nine-member body elected by the residents of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough. Seats are apportioned by population. Hopewell Township has seven representatives; each borough is represented by one seat.... The Hopewell Valley Regional School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Pennington, Hopewell Borough, and Hopewell Township."
Government, Mercer County. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Mercer County is governed by an elected County Executive and a seven-member Freeholder Board."
Meet the County Executive, Mercer County. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Brian M. Hughes continues to build upon a family legacy of public service as the fourth person to serve as Mercer County Executive. The voters have reaffirmed their support for Brian's leadership by re-electing him three times since they first placed him in office in November 2003."
Murphy-DePaolo, Colleen. "Pennington Council elects new member: life-long Pennington resident John Valenza", Mercer Me, February 9, 2023. Accessed April 23, 2023. "Mayor Jim Davy read a proclamation during the reorganization meeting honoring former member Ken Gross.... Valenza took his oath of office to join council as its newest member.... Valenza’s election was to fill the unexpired term left by Gross, ending December 31, 2023."
Galioto, Mary. "Pennington Borough Honors Former Mayor and Swears-in Council Members", MercerMe, January 10, 2019. Accessed November 28, 2019. "New Councilwoman Liz Semple was sworn in to a three-year term, and Councilwoman Deb Gnatt was re-elected. Mayor Joe Lawver was selected by Council at the December 27, 2018 meeting to fill the unexpired mayoral term vacated upon Tony Persichilli’s retirement. That term runs to December 31, 2019.... Persichilli set a 12-year record as the longest serving mayor in Pennington Borough history."
Frank Baldwin, Naval History and Heritage Command. Accessed June 27, 2019. "Born in Pennington, New Jersey, on November 19, 1880, Frank Baldwin attended Pennington Preparatory School and the Stewart School in Trenton, prior to his appointment in 1906 as Assistant Paymaster, with rank of Ensign in the Supply Corps of the US Navy."
Heyboer, Kelly. "How to get your kid a seat in one of N.J.'s hardest-to-get-into high schools", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 2017. Accessed November 18, 2019. "Mercer County has a stand-alone specialized high school for top students: a Health Sciences Academy at the district's Assunpink Center campus. The district also offers a STEM Academy at Mercer County Community College. How to apply: Students can apply online in the fall of their 8th grade year."
Davis, Mike. "Elizabeth Maher Muoio sworn in as new assemblywoman in 15th District", The Times, February 5, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2015. "Muoio, a Pennington resident, was sworn into office on Thursday by Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson) two weeks after Mercer and Hunterdon County Democrats convened and appointed her to the seat.... Muoio served on the Pennington Borough Council in the late 1990s before winning election to the Mercer County freeholder board."
Shea, Kevin. "Bill Schluter, former state senator who ran for governor, dies at 90", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 6, 2018. Accessed August 7, 2018. "William 'Bill' Schluter, a longtime New Jersey legislator and public servant who ran for governor in 2001, died at his Pennington home Monday morning at the age of 90."
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Staff. "Tony DeNicola: Obituary", The Times, September 4, 2006. Accessed September 17, 2015. "Tony DeNicola, 79, died Saturday in the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Born in Pennington, he had resided in Lawrenceville for 40 years."
Lawlor, Julia. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Pennington; Small Town With a Sense of Community", The New York Times, May 18, 2003. Accessed October 31, 2013. "Pennington's mix of Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian-style architecture appeals to old-home lovers, and the Victorian stone Pennington Railroad Station, which now holds two condominiums, is on the National Register of Historic Places."
Hoffman, Jan. "Public lives; A League President in the Dreams Business", The New York Times, May 26, 2000. Accessed November 19, 2012. "As a girl, thinking about what she would be when she grew up, Val Ackerman just assumed she'd be an athletic director.... When she was a teenager in Pennington, N.J., playing field hockey, swimming butterfly and freestyle, competing in track and field, and emerging as a star small forward in basketball, her father was her high school's athletic director."
Burkhart, Ford. "Samuel Messick, 67, Leader In Educational Testing Field", The New York Times, October 19, 1998. Accessed November 24, 2018. "Dr. Samuel J. Messick, a leader in educational testing who argued for restraint in the use of student test scores, died on Oct. 6 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia. He was 67 and lived in Pennington, N.J."
HistoryArchived July 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Pennington School. Accessed November 19, 2012. "When The Pennington School (then the Methodist Episcopal Male Seminary) opened its doors in 1838 in the small town of Pennington, New Jersey, the school was housed in one building and enrolled three students under the tutelage of one teacher."
Form of GovernmentArchived May 2, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Pennington Borough. Accessed May 13, 2020. "The Borough form remains the most popular form of local government in New Jersey. This form dates back to the Borough Act of 1878 and was revised in 1897 . The borough Mayor is elected at large to a four-year term. Six Council members are elected at-large to staggered three-year terms."
Kenneth G. MillerArchived December 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Accessed November 27, 2013. "A resident of Pennington, NJ, Ken grew up in Medford, NJ in the heart of the pine barrens and still owns a house in Waretown, NJ, the home of the sounds of the NJ pines, where he watches the inexorable rise in sea level from his deck 16 ft above Barnegat Bay."
"Governor - Mercer County"(PDF). New Jersey Department of Elections. January 29, 2014. Archived from the original(PDF) on January 1, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
"Governor - Mercer County"(PDF). New Jersey Department of Elections. January 31, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
Hopewell Valley Regional School District 2016 Report Card NarrativeArchived September 25, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 25, 2017. "Hopewell Valley serves the two boroughs of Pennington and Hopewell and the much larger Hopewell Township, and encompasses a total area of nearly 60 square miles with a population that exceeds 20,000. There are six schools that comprise the district. (Four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school.) District enrollment is currently 3,750 students."
Hawtree, Christopher. "Peter Benchley: He was fascinated by the sea, but his bestselling novel tapped into a primeval fear of the deep", The Guardian, February 14, 2006. Accessed August 18, 2008. "In 1971, he was asked by Tom Congdon, an editor at the publishers Doubleday, if he had anything in mind for a book, and he pitched this as a 'long story'; he produced a hundred pages, and, with a $1000 advance, he reworked it steadily, holing up to do so, during the winter, in a room above the Pennington Furnace Supply Co in Pennington, New Jersey, and, by summer, in an old turkey coop at Stonington, Connecticut."
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Stratton, Jean. "Princeton personality", Town Topics, April 16, 2008. Accessed November 6, 2019. "'We were looking for a place to live, and we didn’t have any money. Peter wanted to be near New York, and finally, we were able to get a house in Pennington in 1970.'... 'Peter had this idea for a novel,' explains Ms. Benchley, 'and he wrote Jaws in the Blackwell Furnace Repair Shop in Pennington.'"
Strauss, Elaine. "A Concert to Honor Volunteers for the Homeless"Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, U.S. 1 Newspaper, January 26, 2005. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Olga Gorelli is a Pennington-based composer and leader in New Jersey's musical life; her compositions experiment with both words and music."
Form of GovernmentArchived May 2, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Pennington Borough. Accessed May 13, 2020. "The Borough form remains the most popular form of local government in New Jersey. This form dates back to the Borough Act of 1878 and was revised in 1897 . The borough Mayor is elected at large to a four-year term. Six Council members are elected at-large to staggered three-year terms."
Hamner, Nicholas. "Council complete", Pennington Post, December 7, 2006, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 30, 2007. Accessed July 11, 2016.
"Governor - Mercer County"(PDF). New Jersey Department of Elections. January 29, 2014. Archived from the original(PDF) on January 1, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
Hopewell Valley Regional School District 2016 Report Card NarrativeArchived September 25, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 25, 2017. "Hopewell Valley serves the two boroughs of Pennington and Hopewell and the much larger Hopewell Township, and encompasses a total area of nearly 60 square miles with a population that exceeds 20,000. There are six schools that comprise the district. (Four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school.) District enrollment is currently 3,750 students."
About UsArchived September 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Hopewell Valley Regional High School. Accessed September 25, 2017. "Hopewell Valley Regional School District, as it functions today, has been a regionalized operation since 1965 when voters of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough approved a plan to consolidate their schools. But the first consolidation of local schools actually occurred in 1894 when the 14 separate districts, operating one-room schoolhouses throughout the valley, agreed to merge and be governed by a single school board."
About the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of EducationArchived November 8, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Accessed March 2, 2020. "The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education is a nine-member body elected by the residents of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough. Seats are apportioned by population. Hopewell Township has seven representatives; each borough is represented by one seat.... The Hopewell Valley Regional School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Pennington, Hopewell Borough, and Hopewell Township."
HistoryArchived July 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Pennington School. Accessed November 19, 2012. "When The Pennington School (then the Methodist Episcopal Male Seminary) opened its doors in 1838 in the small town of Pennington, New Jersey, the school was housed in one building and enrolled three students under the tutelage of one teacher."
BiographyArchived February 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Kwame Anthony Appiah. Accessed November 19, 2012. "Kwame Anthony Appiah has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine."
Lucille Day, Office of the Governor of New Jersey, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 2, 2008. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Commissioner Davy is married to James M. Davy. They live in Pennington with their two sons, James and Andrew."
Strauss, Elaine. "A Concert to Honor Volunteers for the Homeless"Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, U.S. 1 Newspaper, January 26, 2005. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Olga Gorelli is a Pennington-based composer and leader in New Jersey's musical life; her compositions experiment with both words and music."
"Himes Reaches Out to War-Weary Republicans"Archived October 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Jim Himes for Congress. Accessed February 15, 2011. "He was raised by 'a working single mom' in the small town of Pennington, N.J., and attended 'a decent public school.' When he brought home an A minus, his mother would ask, 'What went wrong?'"
Kenneth G. MillerArchived December 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Accessed November 27, 2013. "A resident of Pennington, NJ, Ken grew up in Medford, NJ in the heart of the pine barrens and still owns a house in Waretown, NJ, the home of the sounds of the NJ pines, where he watches the inexorable rise in sea level from his deck 16 ft above Barnegat Bay."
