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  • Jost is pleased with cross country starts

    By: Bill Williams    The Vikings’ girls cross country team used a strong nucleus of runners to squeeze by Edison for its first win of the season Tuesday.    The South Brunswick High School team (1-0) secured the third- through sixth-place slots, setting up the 26-29 victory. The South Brunswick boys (0-1) suffered their first loss of…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING UPDATE

    Board granted hardship variances for six residential properties. By Marianne Hooker    At its Sept. 9 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment granted hardship variances for six residential properties.    Two of the variances will allow the construction of attached garages. One will allow a shed to be built, and another will permit the installation…

  • DISPATCHES: Stones’ new disc lives up to the hype

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet It’s been a long time since The Rolling Stones released a really great record.    It has been way too long since The Rolling Stones have released an album that matters.    There have been a handful of stray songs that rose above the cliched and often perfunctory — "Mixed Emotions" from the…

  • Principals set plans to raise test scores

    School officials have been preparing to achieve performance targets required under the No Child Left Behind Act. By: Donna Lukiw    With several years of standardized test scores to review, school officials have been preparing plans to achieve performance targets required under the No Child Left Behind Act — sometimes developing elaborate education plans for just…

  • Manville ends two-year victory drought

    Stibitz wins in first game as head coach By: Rudy Brandl    It’s a night the Manville High football team will never forget.    Mired in a two-year, 20-game losing streak, the Mustangs took the field at Newark Central last Friday night for the first time under rookie head coach Brett Stibitz. While the team was confident,…

  • This Week

    Thursday    Ice cream benefit: Township Mayor Pam Mount and state Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) will scoop ice cream from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Cold Stone Creamery, which is donating 25 percent of its profits today to benefit MentorPower.    The Lawrence-based nonprofit organization offers young people an alternative to street gangs, and matches…

  • South Brunswick qualifies for states

    By: Jim Green    So far, so good for the South Brunswick High tennis team.    The Vikings have not only gotten off to a 4-1 start with wins over Old Bridge, Franklin, Piscataway and North Brunswick, but they have qualified for the state tournament as a team, while the first doubles team of Meredith Ragany-Meena Ramachandra…

  • Boyfriend confesses to woman’s murder

    Shooting, stabbing incident marks the first murder committed within Mansfield in more than 25 years. By: William Wichert    MANSFIELD — A township man confessed last week to murdering his pregnant girlfriend in their Augusta Drive home at the Mapleton community off Route 68, state police said.    In a statement made to state police detectives Sept.…

  • Police Beat

    From the edition of Sept. 22 BORDENTOWN CITY    Police charged a pair of Hamilton boys with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia at the city RiverLine train station Sept. 17.    According to police, an officer spotted the boys, one 15 and the other 16, rolling what he suspected…