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  • Lawrence recaptures county mock trial crown

    LHS squad faces sectionals Tuesday. By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence High School mock trial team is back on top, after defeating West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School to recapture the Mercer County Mock Trial Team championship last week.    The LHS team defeated teams from Princeton High School, Villa Victoria Academy and Stuart Country Day School last…

  • State hands out grades to schools

    State Department of Education reports for Upper Freehold and Plumsted school districts are detailed. By: Lauren Burgoon and Marisa Maldonado    Usually it’s the students getting the grades, but once a year the state Department of Education turns the tables and grades school districts on their performance.    The DOE recently released the report cards for schools…

  • Merchants getting ready to move

    With the construction of a new Home Depot beginning, tennants are packing their belongings. By: Melissa Hayes    As construction equipment tears down pieces of what was Macy’s to make way for a new Home Depot, three store owners are preparing to take their businesses elsewhere.    Yatin Patel, owner of The Bagel Basket and Deli, Lori…

  • Board releases MHS principal from contract

    60-day notice cut short By:Emily Craighead    Manville High School Principal Rodney Logan’s tenure at the school abruptly ended Tuesday, after the Board of Education asked him to leave about eight weeks before his resignation date.    Superintendent of Schools Donald Burkhardt said confidentiality requirements prevented him from discussing the decision to remove Dr. Logan from his…

  • OBITUARIES: Margaret E. Duris

    Margaret E. Duris    Margaret E. Duris, 91, died Thursday, Feb. 3, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Deans, she resided in Monmouth Junction for 40 years before moving to South River, where she lived for 20 years. Ms. Duris and her husband then retired to Florida where they lived for…

  • Iraq vet welcomed home

    Mark Malinowski receives firefighter escort on return from 12-month tour of duty By:Mary Ellen Zangara    With a 12-month tour of duty in Iraq officially over, National Guard Sgt. Mark Malinowski, 45, was greeted Saturday by a convoy of local firetrucks.    And in a special moment symbolizing his return to his family at their Harrison Avenue…

  • Boys shot put steals show

    Lawrence indoor track By: Jim Green    Lawrence High School indoor track coach Dave O’Neal went into the Mercer County Championships expecting big things from his girls team and hoping for a competitive performance from his boys. He got almost the exact opposite.    The boys squad provided most of the highlights Sunday at Widener University in…

  • Teacher’s play brings Roebling to center stage

    Second grade teacher at the Roebling School authors play about the history of Roebling, as told by Charles G. Roebling. By: Scott Morgan    ROEBLING — The first half of the story? Easy. Kind of wrote itself, back in July, when a teacher’s brain is saddled with far less clutter.    The second part?    Yeah, the second…

  • Dawgs dig through tough week

    Hopewell Valley ice hockey By: Mike Molaro    For the better part of this season, things have been going positively for the Hopewell Valley Central High School boys ice hockey squad.    Last week, though, the Bulldogs (12-7 overall, 8-2 in the Colonial Valley Conference) hit a road block with three straight setbacks. While trying to end…