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  • NBC tennis nets a 4-1 win in season opener

    By: Sean Moylan    The Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity tennis team has a chance to be a playoff club this season but it needs to win all the matches it’s supposed to win and capture the toss-up matches too.    On Monday, the Greyhounds answered their first challenge when they downed the Holy…

  • Officials mislead in recent letters

    To the editor By:    This letter has been prepared in direct rebuttal to the nasty and inaccurate claims made by two of our elected Hillsborough Township Committeemen – Anthony Ferrera and Steve Sireci.    The common thread in the writings of Mssrs. Ferrera and Sireci is that the Direct Petition effort "tricked people into signing the…

  • Into the ‘Fire’

    Passage Theatre Company stages Charlayne Woodard’s autobiographical play. By: Jillian Kalonick Linda Kennedy stars in ‘Pretty Fire,’ at Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton April 14-24.    When playwright Charlayne Woodard was born, she weighed one pound, eight ounces — doctors didn’t expect her to live through the night. When she went home from the hospital 11…

  • Strong openers for South

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The disappointment of having last Saturday’s opening day rained out was quickly washed away for the South Brunswick High School Track teams with double victories over Edison on Tuesday afternoon. The Lady Vikings upended the visiting Lady Eagles 85-55, and the boys smothered Edison 118-23 on the road.    Saturday’s meet, the…

  • ‘Taste of the Nation’ scheduled for April 18

       Top chefs from central New Jersey’s leading restaurants will join forces in the fight against hunger at Share Our Strength’s Princeton "Taste of the Nation," presented by American Express and Jenn-Air.    An annual fund-raiser, Princeton "Taste of the Nation" is part of the largest nationwide benefit to fight hunger. The event will take place Monday,…

  • Council cuts penny from proposed tax hike

    2005 municipal budget introduced with 11 percent rate increase. By: Lea Kahn    Township Council introduced its proposed $34.8 million budget for 2005 Tuesday — despite objections from a handful of residents who oppose the proposed 11 percent tax rate increase and the elimination of a police lieutenant’s position.    The council voted 3-1 to introduce the…

  • Township’s charter study report merits attention

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    For the first time since November, when Hopewell Township voters approved the creation of the Hopewell Township Charter Study Commission, citizens have a chance to find out what the five commissioners have been doing since they began meeting late last year.    The five-member commission, which is doing an in-depth study that…

  • Playing with Animals

    The Arts Council of Princeton presents lions and tigers and bears, oh my. By: Susan Van Dongen ‘Dragonfly,’ above, by Leni Morante    Leni Morante isn’t sure where the animals came from, but sometime in the past few years they started working their way through her brushes and pencils onto various surfaces.    "I think they grew…

  • School board candidates discuss the issues

    Candidates speak about their goals for the upcoming school year. By: Melissa Hayes    This year’s school board candidates have many goals they would like to accomplish if elected to office at school elections.    There are six candidates vying for three, three-year seats on the school board. Incumbents Marty Abschutz and Barry Nathanson are both completing…