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  • HHS netmen come close to county team title

    Doubles teams fall short in finals By: Rudy Brandl        BERNARDS – Last week’s Somerset County Tennis Tournament included a little bit of just about everything for the Hillsborough High boys.    The Raiders enjoyed the exhilarating feeling of Thomas Kinrade’s first singles title. They endured the frustration of rain delays, schedule changes and a tournament…

  • Study first any change to municpal rule

    EDITORIAL:A group of Lawrence residents want to change the local form of government. If Lawrence residents do want change, it would be best to study all the options rather than put a single one on the ballot in November. By: Along with the crocus, tulips and daffodils, a move to change Lawrence’s form of government…

  • Church’s retreat Saturday to focus on feminism in spirituality

       More than 200 women from central New Jersey are expected to gather in Princeton on Saturday to explore the goddess and feminism in spirituality, theology and religion.    The retreat, "Woman Gathering 2005," organized by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, will bring together women of all ages to experience workshops on goddess rituals, feminist theology,…

  • Tax rate lowered

    Council cuts spending, reinstates busing money. By: Melissa Hayes    The Township Council shaved nearly a half-cent off the school tax rate Tuesday, after it decided to cut $400,000 from the recently defeated school budget and to require the district to include the cost of nonmandatory busing in the plan.    Voters defeated a $119.2 million school…

  • Working hard on a new sign at the ‘Y’

    Middelsex County Vocational students work on a new sign for the YMCA. By: Joseph Harvie    Six teenagers, their teacher, a pile of concrete blocks, a few bags of mortar, and a plan.    It may sound like an episode of "This Old House," but this scene played out Friday and Monday at the South Brunswick Family…

  • Frank Serra

    By:    MILLSTONE — Frank R. Serra died Saturday at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 68.    Born in Bound Brook, he had been a Manville resident for many years before moving to Millstone in 1989.    Mr. Serra worked for Revlon of Edison for more than 25 years, retiring in 1990.    He was a communicant…

  • Principal to leave for new position

    Clara Barton School Principal Berenice Blum-Bart will become superintendent of the Tabernacle School District next month. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — Bordentown Regional Superintendent John Polomano has at least two words of advice for Clara Barton School Principal Berenice Blum-Bart: good communication.    Ms. Blum-Bart will be taking those instructions into consideration as she becomes…

  • Opening up the Princeton Nursery site

    New commission to oversee the Mapleton Preserve. By: Joseph Harvie    The former Princeton Nursery site is closer to being opened to the public now that the council has approved the creation of a commission that will decide how the property will be used.    The Township Council adopted an ordinance Tuesday that will establish a six-member…

  • Flower show project

    Full Circle show held in Hopewell Annie Morgan, 5, of Princeton works on attaching a pen to her flower with green ribbon during the Garden Club of Trenton’s Full Circle flower show held at the Hopewell Railroad Station, Hopewell Borough, this past weekend.