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  • HHS boys overwhelmed at Skyland meet

    P’burg flexes muscle, rolls to team title By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High boys were shocked but not surprised at last Thursday’s Skyland Conference Championships.    The Raiders knew that Phillipsburg entered the meet on a mission and loaded up to avenge two April losses, one in the season’s first dual meet and another at…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    A Manville resident reported his foot was run over by a car at 7:20 p.m. on May 2 while in the Wal-Mart parking lot on North Main Street.    The man refused medical attention and said he was not injured. He only wanted to report the incident as a matter of record, police said.    Police…

  • Annual golf tournament helps fund school programs

    On May 16, at the Olde York Country Club, the Chesterfield Public Education Fund will host its ninth annual golf tournament to raise money for school programs. By: Scott Morgan    CHESTERFIELD — For the members of the Chesterfield Public Education Fund, golf is much more than green fairways and ominous sand traps. For them, and,…

  • Letters to the Editor, May 12, 2005

    YMCA plan makes sense To the editor:     As a neighbor of the current senior center on Reading Street, I fail to see how we can afford the operating expense of a $2 million building when we can’t take care of the currently underutilized and much more modest facility.    For almost four years, much-needed building…

  • Jennie Pawlikowski

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Jennie C. (Lacheta) Pawlikowski died May 4 at home. She was 78.    Born in Newark, she lived in Metuchen, and Somerset before moving to the Neshanic Station section of Hillsborough nine years ago.    Mrs. Pawlikowski was a secretary in the purchasing department at JFK Medical Center for 16 years before retiring in…

  • EDITORIAL: Get the facts, then opinions

    EDITORIAL Survey negleted to address issues that would be of most concern to residents.    The numbers are overwhelming, but their meaning remains unclear.    Nearly three quarters of the respondents to a township transportation survey said they would support a rail station in South Brunswick. But the survey was not scientifically conducted and the questions were…

  • City’s Street Fair a May tradition

    Bordentown City’s annual Street Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 21 and 22. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — If you ask Diane DiSpaldo what people will see on city streets next weekend, she’ll tell you it’ll be the same as last year, and the year before that.    "What…

  • More scrutiny set for Princeton Airport hangar plan

    Two new buildings would house fixed-wing aircraft. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Princeton Airport went before the township Planning Board on Monday seeking to build two hangars as well as add a 3,300-square-foot second story on an existing one-story office building.    The board could not vote on the application, which is part of the airport’s…

  • Short-handed Viking girls nip EB

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    In sports, close is a relative term. A one or two point difference in the score of most sports is the usual definition. But in a sport like track, where points earned by one team are in effect taken away from the opponent, anything under 20 points (or a shift of…