Category: archives

  • Pennington Day makes fitting return for O’Hanlon fire anniversary

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse    At the heart of The Pennington School campus is a grassy area that’s used by students during warm weather for relaxing, meeting with their friends, etc. The area is known as O’Hanlon Park — all that remains of O’Hanlon Hall. Built in 1901, it once contained administrative offices, classrooms, residence…

  • HHS boys still can’t beat Franklin

    Team hopes for one more chance in counties By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team is tired of moral victories, especially when Franklin provides the opposition.    Last Friday night’s 54-49 home loss to the Warriors added another chapter to an increasingly frustrating saga of Franklin’s mastery over the Raiders in recent years. The…

  • LETTERS: What have they done for us lately?

    To the editor:     Yes, Route 1 in South Brunswick needs to be widened. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure that out.    South Brunswick’s Township Council wants to send approximately $160,000 of our tax dollars to hire professional lobbying firms in Trenton and Washington, D.C., to obtain funds to widen Route…

  • Viking teams defeat Old Bridge to enter GMC meet on high note

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Both South Brunswick High School swim teams ended their dual meet season on a positive note with victories over Old Bridge last week. The Viking boys beat the Knights 114-56, and the girls topped the Lady Knights 104-66. That sets both squads up for potential success at the Greater Middlesex Conference…

  • An old mistake comes back to help this time

    EDITORIAL: State’s miscalulations years ago is insulated Manville schools from problematic cuts By:    It’s said that what goes around, comes around — and it appears it’s true at least for the Manville school district.    When the district was in the midst of a five-year string of budget defeats at the polls — a time when…

  • EDITOR’S NOTE: Covering tragedy

    EDITOR’S NOTE By Hank Kalet Discussing readers’ responses and concerns.    A reader posted a long response on our Web site to last week’s Page 1 story updating the status of Joshua Aanestad.    Joshua is the 16-year-old from South Brunswick High School who faces criminal delinquency charges in connection to the crash that killed his 15-year-old…

  • Board aims to fill Reccoppa vacancy

    Special meeting set for 7:30 p.m. today (Thursday). By: Lea Kahn    A replacement for former school board member Larry Reccoppa is expected to be chosen today (Thursday) at a special meeting of the Lawrence Township Board of Education.    At the 7:30 p.m. meeting, which is being held in the Lawrence High School library, the school…

  • Bobik’s boys improve to 12-4

    By: Sean Moylan    "Our schedule is hard . . . we’ll see what we’re made of," said Art Bobik, whose Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity basketball team is right back in the hunt for a Freedom Division title with wins over two league-rivals, New Egypt and Palmyra, this past week.    The Flashes were…

  • For the Feb. 3 issue

    Stephen B. Shimko, David Baird Malseed II, Francis H. Schiffer Jr., Matthew F. Mansfield, Charles R. Happ, Joseph P. Squeri, Peter J. Magee, Louis Scott, Mary K. Erickson. Stephen B. Shimko    COLUMBUS — Stephen B. Shimko, 66, of The Homestead, Columbus, died Jan. 30 at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Manhattan, N.Y.,…