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  • Sr. Pony playoff curse continues

    Team’s quest for title denied By: Nick Vaccaro        History repeated itself last Thursday as the Hillsborough Senior Pony League team lost a close one to Somerville in the league championship game by a score of 6-3.    "We had a great season, it just didn’t work out for us in one game," manager Adam Siegel…

  • Gypsy Princess

    The photographer’s daughter/model is ‘my priority, my muse, my co-conspirator, my tormentor and my bliss.’ By: Susan Van Dongen Amelia’s bohemian wardrobe is juxtaposed against interesting settings – a gray demolition site in Hoboken, a shadowy staircase in a firehouse, the ornate doorway of a brownstone. Wherever photographer Robin Schwartz happens to be going, Amelia…

  • Florence baseball 12’s edged in Sunnybrae tourney

    By: Sean Moylan    Despite a three-run homer by Ryan Walsh, the Bordentown 12-year-old Little League team’s great summer of baseball ended with a 7-4 loss to Sunnybrae in the semi-final game of the Sunnybrae Tournament on Thursday.    "Scott Gorish pitched a really good game for us," said Bordentown shortstop Tommy Potts, who went 2-for-3 in…

  • Residents need a push to sign a living will

    EDITORIAL: Despite high-profile legal cases on right-to-die issues, many New Jerseyeans lack end-of-life-decision-making provisions. The legislature should move on bills to promote information about advance directives and durable powers of attorney. In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court, in the matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, ruled that patients — or, in the case of those…

  • For the Aug. 11 issue

    Esther P. Brown, Steven Leigh Bell, Gary Edward Kater, William F. Latham, Thomas Edwards, John J. Garecht, Naomi L. Kerr, Mary C. Wolfe. Esther P. Brown    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Esther P. Brown (nee Platt), 88, of Louisville, Ky., died on Aug. 5 at Suburban Hospital in Lousiville. Born in Haddon Heights, she lived in Roebling…

  • Committee resolution rejects builder’s plan

    Says Hovnanian plan for GSA site won’t help community By:Melissa Edmond    Township Committee members expressed their vehement opposition to K. Hovnanian Homes’ possible development of 400 to 700 units of active adult housing at the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Belle Mead Depot site in a resolution adopted Tuesday.    "We do not want any…

  • Hammer, Vivid Photo win Hambo

    By: Kyle Moylan    Roger Hammer, in his first Hambletonian as a driver or trainer, won harness racing’s biggest event this past Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack.    "I had some thoughts about not driving in the race (with a purse of $1,500,000)," noted Hammer, who drove and trained Vivid Photo to victory in a time of…

  • Junior Legion just misses state berth

    By:    The South Brunswick Junior Legion Baseball Team fell just short of returning to the state championships for the second straight year. The Vikings suffered an 8-5 loss to Haddon Heights in the loser’s bracket finals of the District 3 tournament at Memorial Stadium in New Brunswick. It was South’s second loss of the tournament…

  • Hunters don’t belong near Scott Drive homes

    To the editor By:    We at Scott Drive in Hillsborough have just found out hunters may be allowed to shoot deer with bows and arrows.    The ordinance says hunting will be permitted "with permission of sufficient number of property owners." When were they going to ask us permission?    Well, I refuse. I have met some…