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  • Raiders capture first sectional basehall crown

    Red-hot team batters Steinert By: Rudy Brandl        HAMILTON — This championship was won with the bats.    Right from the first pitch, the Hillsborough High baseball team was on fire at the plate against favored defending champion Steinert in Saturday’s Central Jersey Group 4 final. After two pitches, the Raiders had a 1-0 lead. After…

  • Freytag and Whitlock

    Catherine Freytag    Catherine Freytag of Hopewell died Monday at Merwick Rehabilitation Hospital and Nursing Center in Princeton.    Born in Trenton, she resided in the Hopewell area since 1972.    Mrs. Freytag was a legal secretary for Mason-Griffin and Pierson Attorneys at Law for many years. She also was employed by Merlino and Andrew Attorneys at Law.…

  • After 20 years, musician makes it back to the stage

    Hillsborough woman’s band to perform in Manville on June 16. By: Melissa Edmond    Hillsborough resident Debbie Sansanelli, lead singer and songwriter of the band SunDog, remembers singing into her hairbrush in front of the mirror when she was 11 years old, dreaming about being in a band.    She always loved music. She played flute and…

  • Community Calendar

    MOMS Club meeting    Thursday, June 9 — A general meeting will be held at 9 a.m. for local stay-at-home moms for the purpose of socialization and support. Meetings are open to residents of Florence, Roebling, Bordentown City and Township, Fieldsboro and Mansfield. Refreshments will be provided, children welcome. Call (609) 499-0601 for details. Strawberry Festival…

  • Memories of sister drive teen to organize fundraiser

    First Concerts for Cancer event to be held Friday at Noonan Field. By: Donna Lukiw    Dave Matrini, a junior at Hillsborough High School, lost his 10-year-old sister, Julie, to leukemia four years ago.    Since his sister’s death, Dave has been active in fundraising for cancer research and now is co-organizer of the first Concerts for…

  • Cards send two to Meet of Champs

    Lawrence outdoor track By: Jim Green    Brian Scott is exactly the kind of athlete coach Dave O’Neal would want representing his squad at the Meet of Champions.    Scott has worked to steadily improve himself throughout his high school career — a career that is ending still on the upswing. In the final week of his…

  • Chmielewski vaults over injuries into nationals

    By: Dave Gurney    Sports clichés always echo the same sentiment, how persistence and grit are measured in sweat and tears. How a true athlete buries the physical pain and agony inside for a dauntless, daring exhibition of heart and determination.    But how else do you describe an athlete who, after breaking a vertebrae, was still…

  • Judge Felt in the context of his times

    EDITORIAL: Lessons of Watergate should be taught as current events, not history, lest it lose all meaning for younger generations. For the past few days, teachers at high schools and elsewhere have had a marvelous opportunity to turn an important piece of the nation’s history into a riveting current-events lesson. After three decades of mystery,…

  • Developer to remove soil

    The Zoning Board of Adjustments is allowing soil to be removed in an area slated for a new adult community. By: Joseph Harvie    The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a waiver June 2 that will allow PPSD to begin removing soil in an area slated for a proposed adult community at Schalks Crossing and Ridge…