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  • Lady Mustangs let one get away

    Rehrig loses first game to Newark Central By: John E. Powers        Call it a missed opportunity.    The Manville High School girls’ basketball team started its season last Friday at Newark with a game against Newark Central. The Lady Mustangs, plagued by poor shooting, dropped a 31-27 decision that could have easily finished the other…

  • Younger Vikes are Forthun-ate

    By: James McKeever    Matt Forthun knows what it’s like to be a freshmen competing on a varsity team. He did it in bowling and in baseball at South Brunswick High School.    Now, a seasoned junior and three-year starter, Forthun has made newcomers to the Vikings’ bowling team feel welcome this season. He cheers them on…

  • School board considers new restrictions on cell phones

    The Lawrence Township schools would become a cell phone-free zone, during school hours, according to a new policy under consideration by the Board of Education. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township public schools would be cell phone-free zones while school is in session, under a revised policy introduced by the township Board of Education…

  • How Women Invented Postmodernism

    An exhibition at Mason Gross Galleries in New Brunswick, featuring works by Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Faith Ringgold and others, traces the roots. By:Jillian Kalonick    It’s not a cooking show Martha Stewart would ever do.    Standing in the kitchen, a woman names a variety of cooking implements in alphabetical order — chopper, dish, eggbeater —…

  • Town mulling emergency services consolidation

    Consolidation could save taxpayers $500,000 to $1 million a year in costs (Dec. 22) By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — "Let me make this perfectly clear: the fire district has become financially unstable and this problem cannot be corrected by short-term Band-Aids or tax rate increases."    So reads a line in a fire district memo sent…

  • Cardinal gorls bounce back, top Morrisville

    Lawrence girls basketball By: Jim Green    In order to have a chance to win its season opener Friday, the Lawrence High School girls basketball team knew it would have to find away to contain Notre Dame senior center Korinne Campbell. Unfortunately for the Cardinals, that’s easier said than done.    The 6-foot-2 Campbell exploded for 36…

  • Police Beat for the week of Dec. 22

    BORDENTOWN CITY    A Burlington man was charged with driving while intoxicated after driving into a snow bank and almost hitting another car on Route 130 South at 2:04 a.m. on Dec. 11.    Police said Michael Scafiro, 32, was seen drifting into a snow bank and then swerving back into his lane, almost hitting a passing…

  • Middle school expansion project work under way

    If all goes according to plan, the job should be completely done, with a certificate of occupancy issued by the township construction office, on Jan. 7, 2007 By John Tredrea    Work has begun on a major expansion of Timberlane Middle School.    Construction manager Chris Leyerberger, in his report Monday to the Hopewell Valley Regional Board…

  • BRHS, NBS both win wrestling tournaments

    By: Sean Moylan    The Bordentown Regional High School wrestling team entered this past weekend’s Patriot Duals looking to win the tournament and to avenge last year’s loss to Bishop Eustace, which probably kept the Scotties out of the playoffs.    The Scotties did both.    "It’s the first time we’ve started out 3-0 in I don’t know…