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  • Red Raider boys ready for role as hunted

    Pennington boys soccer By: Mike Molaro    In the span of less than one year, The Pennington School boys soccer team has gone from being a hunter to being the hunted.    Coming off a 15-5 season that culminated in a 2-1 loss to Montclair Kimberly in the Prep B state finals, the Red Raiders know expectations…

  • Council gives some Pennington workers salary hikes

    Officials also introduced ordinance under which five employees of borough’s Department of Public Works would get a 4 percent annual salary increase for three years. By John Tredrea    About 20 full- and part-time borough employees will get a 4 percent salary increase for 2005 under a salary ordinance adopted unanimously Monday night by Pennington Borough…

  • South Brunswick tennis team off to solid start

    By: Rich Fisher    With an experienced lineup back, the South Brunswick High tennis team has looked good in the early going this season.    The Vikings got off to a 2-1 start by sandwiching wins over North Brunswick (4-1) and Piscataway (5-0) around a loss to J.P. Stevens. According to coach Barbara Whitman, the win over…

  • Allentown, N.J., its rise and progress, Part 28

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    From the New Jersey Historical Society’s C. R. Hutchinson papers, the story of the Anthony Woodward, an early owner of property south of Doctors Creek to Arneytown.     The street now known as Church Street, is mentioned as a "drift road" at a very early date. Then it began to be called "the…

  • Tennis squad rebounds against Steinert

    Hopewell Valley girls tennis By: John E. Powers    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls tennis team had quite an interesting opening to its season last week. And both results — a win and a loss — bode well for the young team.    The Lady Bulldogs dropped their opener Aug. 31 to West Windsor-Plainsboro North…

  • West Amwell hires business administrator

    Richard J. Kilpatrick will replace Karen Grayson, who resigned earlier this year after 14 years with the district. By: Linda Seida    West Amwell Elementary School has hired Richard J. Kilpatrick, vice president of the Readington Township Board of Education, as its new business administrator and school board secretary.    Mr. Kilpatrick will replace Karen Grayson, who…

  • Rescue Me

    The fall movie season offers some reprieve from the painful summer By: Jim Boyle    Thankfully summer is over. Not much can be said about a season when the amount of good Hollywood movies can be counted on one hand (Batman Begins, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Clones, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Charlie and the…

  • Peaceable Kingdom

    The New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University features both classics and recent critical faves. By: Jim Boyle    The upcoming visit by the Dalai Lama to Rutgers University has influenced some of the early selections for the campus’s New Jersey Film Fest. The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche (Sept. 15) is a French documentary about the…

  • Popular Demand

    Area stages offer up a season sure to delight all tastes. By: Jillian Kalonick