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  • HHS girls remain confident after loss

    Lacrosse ladies answer with first victory By: Rudy Brandl Rudy BrandlSports Editor        The Hillsborough High girls’ lacrosse team certainly wasn’t satisfied after its 10-9 loss at Bridgewater-Raritan in last week’s season opener. However, the competitive nature of the game showed the Lady Raiders they could defeat a team that dominated them in both meetings…

  • Car-cleaning teammates working to fight cancer

    Saturday event to raise money for the American Cancer Society By:Donna Lukiw    Two Manville High School students witnessed their family members’ struggle while fighting cancer and became involved in fund-raising events in Manville to help raise money for the American Cancer Society (ACS).    Katie DaCruz and Andrew Schaefer, juniors at Manville High School, are organizing…

  • Softball squad snaps skid with victory over Trenton

    Lawrence softball By: Jim Green    This wasn’t the first tough spot Rider University freshman left-hander Will O’Connor has been in this year, but it might have been the most critical.    O’Connor has been thrown right into fire in his rookie year with the Rider baseball team, including a starting roll March 31 against a strong…

  • Marching against abuse

    Community to march in support of South Brunswick’s Domestic VIolence Task Force. By: Melissa Hayes    More than 100 residents are expected to take to the streets Sunday to join the Domestic Violence Task Force’s Enough Is Enough Humanity March.    The task force, a subgroup of the township’s Commission on Women, organizes the march annually to…

  • School plan meets needs of community

    To the editor By:    At the March 23 meeting of the Hillsborough Board of Education, the board adopted its 2005-06 school budget by a 9-0 vote.    The budget is designed to continue to provide our students with a high quality, comprehensive educational program needed to assist our students attain the academic and social skills necessary…

  • Faux British Invasion

    Beatlemania Now performs at Havana in New Hope, Pa. By: Kara Fitzpatrick Beatlemania Now (from left: "Ringo," "George," "Paul" and "John) will present an "unplugged" tribute to the Fab Four April 17.    Feb. 9, 1964 is the day Scot Arch’s life changed.    Mr. Arch was one of more than 73 million viewers who watched the…

  • NBC tennis starts 5-0

    By: Sean Moylan    Secretly, Larry Young knew his Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity tennis team had the ability to get off to a great start.    However, there were a lot of "ifs" being that the team was so young and inexperienced.    Nonetheless, with a 3-2 win at Cinnaminson this past Monday, the…

  • Ryan tryin’ to rebound

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Ryan Cohen would like to forget the 2004 golf season, but then again, if he didn’t go through everything he did a year ago, he may not have the positive outlook he does now.    As a sophomore, Cohen averaged two strokes-over-par in helping South Brunswick win its first Greater Middlesex Conference…

  • Scoop of initiative leads woman to open ice cream shop

    Township resident, 25, is owner of Cold Stone Creamery franchise in Mercer Mall. By: Jennifer Potash    Lauren Millner never imagined that an impromptu visit to an ice cream shop on Times Square in New York City would lead her to open a Cold Stone Creamery franchise in the Mercer Mall.    "Never in my wildest dreams,"…