Category: archives

  • PERCEPTIONS: Moving moments make job special

    Honor to cover parade and ceremony for returning troops. By: Steve Feitl    Journalists often find themselves at some rather cool events.    Some are obvious perks, such as being field level at championship sporting events. Other times, they are rewarding opportunities, like talking about the value of reading to local school children.    But there are other…

  • Brutal loss for MHS wrestling team

    Mustangs lose by a point at Central By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High wrestling team was just a little over a period away from breaking its six-match losing streak last week at Newark Central. That’s when disaster struck for the Mustangs, who left Newark stunned and on the short end of a 40-39 decision.…

  • Girls drop close one; boys win on Senior Day

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team lost for the first time in over a month Saturday night at Voorhees in a match-up featuring two of Central Jersey’s top teams.    Voorhees prevailed for the third year in a row in a very close game, winning this one by a 60-57 score.…

  • Civil War talk slated

    Historical Society slates Feb. 27 session. While the troops were off fighting during the Civil War, what was happening back in New Jersey? The generally held view was that the state was pro-southern before the war and even antiwar during it. Hopewell Valley Historical Society’s guest speaker, William Gillette, professor of history at Rutgers University,…

  • Locals pan rezone plan

    Locals say proposed warehouse is wrong for rural area. By: Joseph Harvie    Residents on Davidsons Mill and Fresh Pond roads are upset with a proposal that could change the zoning of a 220-acre parcel of open space to allow for the construction of a warehouse.    The Planning Board was scheduled to discuss the rezoning Wednesday.…

  • Chain reactions

    Florence School District’s Gifted and Talented students’ experiments share common theme. By: Scott Morgan    FLORENCE — You’ve never seen so many ways to use dominoes. Never mind the colors they were painted — the hot pinks and greens and all the other colors in a bag of Skittles — there were just so many, doing…

  • Lady Mustangs getting ready for states

    Team learns from loss to Technology By: John E. Powers        The Manville High School girls were scheduled to finish their basketball regular season this past Monday and Tuesday with road games against Sussex Tech and Bound Brook, two teams they’d already beaten. As the Lady Mustangs prepared for the post-season and the Central Jersey…

  • OBITUARIES: Lucy A. Illiano

    Lucy A. Illiano    Lucy A. Illiano, 80, of Kendall Park, died Wednesday, Feb. 9, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Jersey City, she resided in New Monmouth before moving to Kendall Park in 1983. Ms. Illiano was a graduate of Dickenson High School-Class of 1943 and was active with her high…

  • Judge: developer can build in city

    State Superior Court judge decides to allow developer to build seven houses at the end of Oliver Street in Bordentown City. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — A year after the city Planning Board denied a Woodbridge developer the right to build seven houses at the end of Oliver Street, a state Superior Court judge…