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  • High school students trying to help tsunami victims

    Students collect clothing, supplies and funds. By: Melissa Hayes    Boxes of clothes, shoes, glasses and medical supplies filled the lobby and lined the halls of South Brunswick High School. A table covered with jugs of loose change took up space in the main entranceway.    That was last week. This week, those donations made by students…

  • Mayor: Garbage will be picked up by week’s end

    Trash left uncollected in Washington Township due to a strike by garbage collectors should be removed by the end of this week. By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — Piles of curbside trash left uncollected in the wake of a strike by local garbage collectors should be gone by the end of this week, Mayor Doug Tindall…

  • ABIS principal proposes doubling up on language

    Dr. James Brunn says move could improve test scores By:Emily Craighead    Alexander Batcho Intermediate School (ABIS) students will get a double dose of reading and writing every day, starting next school year.    By doubling the amount of language arts instruction ABIS students receive, Principal Jim Brunn plans to turn out students better prepared for high…

  • Florence Niemiec

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Florence C. Niemiec died Jan. 13 at home. She was 85.    She served in the Army Nurse Corps as a lieutenant in the Philippines during World War II.    Mrs. Niemiec her career in nursing, eventually retiring after 25 years of service as a school nurse in the Somerville Public Schools.    She was…

  • Hopewell Valley school board OKs sale of 30 acres to SB-MWA

    If deal goes through, Back Timberlane athletic fields effort would be beneficiary. By John Tredrea    An impending deal that could generate over $500,000 for development of the Back Timberlane athletic fields was endorsed by the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Tuesday.    The board agreed to sell the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association (SB-MWA) a vacant…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Jan. 21 issue. Bush has courage, wisdom to address Social Security To the editor:    Regarding the letters from Sheila and Howard Schneider, Delia Pitts and Bernard Wright ("Social Security plan means benefit cuts for everyone," "Bush begins to attack retirees’ benefits," and "Bush’s Social Security will hurt ballooning deficit," all from Jan. 14),…

  • HHS boys swim big at Pirate Invitational

    Ippolito, Kuehne star By: John E. Powers        The Hillsborough High School boys’ swimming team may have had its biggest regular-season outing ever this past Sunday at the 26th Annual Pirate Invitational at The Bubble in Princeton Junction.    The Raiders finished third in the 13-school field behind New Jersey giants St. Joseph of Metuchen and…

  • For the Jan. 20 issue

    John D. Shea. John D. Shea    MILLSTONE — John D. Shea, 67, died Jan. 14 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Rockville, Conn., he had been a resident of Clarksburg for the past 27 years.    He was a self-employed truck driver.    Mr. Shea was a member of Fossil’s Antique Car Club…

  • Tickets still available for educational concert

    Project Graduation to be a night of drug and alcohol-free fun. By: Melissa Hayes    Ticket sales for the upcoming South Brunswick High School Project Graduation fund-raising event are picking up, though there are still more than 600 seats available.    The Jan. 29 event at the high school features Mr. Ray, a musician who plays educational…