Category: archives

  • Lessons from abroad

    Teaching in France helps Hillsborough High alum learn. By: Emily Craighead    For Emma Gregory, teaching English is all about learning.    A 2000 graduate of Hillsborough High School and a 2004 graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Ms. Gregory is spending the year in France teaching English to French high school and college students.    She is one…

  • HHS track athletes tune up at Drew meets

    By: Nick Vaccaro        As the season goes on, Hillsborough High’s winter track teams have been steadily developing themselves into the shape they need to be in at this point in the season.    The more meaningful and competitive meets will come at the middle to end of February, including the State Group 4 Championships and…

  • Charges filed after ‘road rage’ incident

    By:Emily Craighead    A Manville man narrowly escaped being stabbed in an alleged road rage attack Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on West Frech Avenue.    Richard Wolfgang, 45, of West Frech Avenue was charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and criminal mischief after he lunged at another driver with a steak…

  • Police suspect charger caused townhouse fire

    Shirley Lane resident treated for smoke inhalation. By: Lea Kahn     An overheated charger for a moped-type scooter sparked a fire that damaged a Shirley Lane townhouse and sent its occupant to the hospital for smoke inhalation Tuesday morning, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar.     The fire, which was reported to police at…

  • Johnson’s boys fall to 2-5 on year

    By: Sean Moylan    A bad second quarter led to the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity basketball team’s demise in a 53-45 loss at Rancocas Valley on Tuesday night.    "We played well enough to win the game tonight (Tuesday)," said NBC Coach Herman Johnson, pointing to all the good things his team did…

  • Obituaries for week of Jan. 13

    Patricia Kellogg-Dennis    Dr. Patricia Kellogg-Dennis, 66, associate professor of English at Rider University, died Jan. 8 at Capital Health System Mercer in Trenton.    Born on Feb. 14, 1938, and raised in Long Island, N.Y., she moved to Princeton in 1970 and to Trenton in 1980. She earned a BA in English from Marymount Manhattan College…

  • Local NAACP president highlights MLK event

    Township celebration begins at 9 a.m. Monday. By: Lea Kahn    Maria Jones, the outgoing president of the Trenton chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has been invited to give the keynote speech at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Monday.    The annual event, which is open to…

  • Nine-class schedule considered for MHS

    School officials say move will help improve test results By:Emily Craighead    Manville High School students will spend more time in the classroom starting in the 2005-06 school year if the school board approves curriculum changes on Tuesday.    Curriculum changes aimed at keeping Manville students competitive and raising state test scores include adding 20 minutes of…

  • Local impact of Teamsters’ strike has been mild thus far

    Waste Management handles garbage collection and recycling for Hopewell Borough property owners and for some Hopewell Township property owners, who make individual contracts with the company. By Ruth Luse    IBT Local 701 — which represents Waste Management of New Jersey’s drivers, helpers, mechanics and equipment operators at the company’s Trenton district — went out on…