Month: August 2003

  • Radio City nixes senior dancers’ New York debut

    Group planned to help rock band ‘Guster’ close Saturday night show By:John Patten    The members of Hillsborough Senior Dancers — known locally as the "Hillsborough Rockets and Rockettes" — had hoped to be cutting the rug at Radio City Music Hall Saturday night, but instead the rug’s been pulled from underneath them.    After practicing for…

  • SBAA 9’s win Cal Ripken state title

    By:    The SBAA 9-year-olders are showing that last year was no fluke.    In 2002, as 8-year-olds, SBAA showed its vast potential by going 38-1 and winning seven tournaments.    This year, South Brunswick won an additional six championships, capped by winning the Cal Ripken State Tournament in South Plainfield last week. As a result, the team…

  • California needs more leadership

    To the editor By:    The recall of California Gov. Gray Davis has become a circus.    Almost 150 people have the intention of running for the office once held by the now disgraced governor. Everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to former child star Gary Coleman to even Larry Flynt all have intentions of running.    The only thing…

  • For seniors, freedom to drive is freedom itself

    Washington Township seniors frustrated by stereotypes about elderly drivers. By: Cynthia Koons    WASHINGTON — At 84, Dottie Bleistein relies on a friend in her late 70s to drive her to lunch at the Senior Center every day.    It’s been two years since double vision stopped Ms. Bleistein from driving, but she said her eye doctor…

  • BOARD BRIEFS

    By:Beth Kressel Curriculum changes add rock climbing    Physical education activities and new textbooks were approved by the Board of Education at its July 21 meeting.    High ropes challenge activities will now be offered to all high school students and a rock climbing unit has been added for fifth- and sixth-graders.    "The physical education teachers are…

  • Aug. 14, 5:38 p.m.: Dispatches

    Dispatches online By: Hank Kalet    Read this week’s Dispatches on a service station plan on Route 1.

  • Letter: Service station not a truck stop

    To the editor:     Last week’s letter by Judy Dredge decrying the current application to locate a gasoline service station on northbound Route 1 near Raymond Road was full of extravagant exaggeration and devoid of honest treatment of the facts.    I am the attorney for the applicant and, even given that status, I can be…

  • Arts Commission seeks proposals for memorial

    Designs being mulled for new September 11 dedication. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    The township Arts Commission is seeking designs for a permanent memorial to victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.    Arts Commission members are seeking preliminary drawings of memorials that "encourage reflection and contemplation" and "create a unique and powerful statement of…

  • Consolidation could be real taxpayer treat

    EDITORIAL By Rick Sinding    There probably was a time, back in the days when little boroughs like Hopewell, Pennington, Princeton and Hightstown, really were distinguishable from the sprawling townships that surrounded them, when the hole-and-the-doughnut actually made sense as an organizing principle for drawing municipal boundaries.    In those days, the "hole" — Hopewell Borough or…