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  • Lady Bulldogs head into Molinelli Classic

    Hopewell Valley girls basketball By: John E. Powers    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls basketball team is working out the kinks in the early going, and it’s showing some.    The Lady Bulldogs, who were scheduled to play Roxbury in the opening round of the John Molinelli Holiday Classic on Wednesday afternoon, were beaten by…

  • POST FORUM: What should the Township Council focus on in the new year?

    POST FORUM Join the debate.    The South Brunswick Post is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of South Brunswick want their…

  • Dec. 30, 1:54 p.m.: Let kids be kids

    Deadly crash makes me wonder why we’re placing so much pressure on teens these days. By: Hank Kalet    A few difficult weeks with days off and holidays mixed in and suddenly I realize that the blog’s been a bit silent.    Really, there is no excuse worth the words used, but time is a precious commodity…

  • A year of progress in Lawrence

    Holmes finishes term as first black mayor. By: Lea Kahn    Ask Mark Holmes about his accomplishments as mayor this year, and he quickly reels off a string of them — from the ongoing revitalization of the Eggerts Crossing neighborhood to the renovation of the Rinck House into an environmental center.    But the one accomplishment that…

  • NBC girls’ basketball squad off to another good start

    By: Sean Moylan    Over the last five years, the Northern Burlington County Regional girls’ varsity basketball squad was always able to put other teams away with a combination of defense and a slow-down offense.    These skills were on full display on Monday night as the Greyhounds pummeled the hosts of the McCorristin Tournament, 33-20, in…

  • Reach out in the face of this tragedy

    EDITORIAL    There is no place on earth invulnerable to natural disasters of some sort – earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, even asteroid strikes are not completely unheard of in Earth’s long history.    Because we all share the same planet and the same human vulnerabilities, we can all too easily imagine the trauma being suffered by the…

  • Yucca’s ‘grand strong foliage’ deserves a second look

    SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By Heather Lovett    The spiky silhouette of Yucca filamentosa is a common sight in older gardens, suggesting a time when the plant was more popular than it is today. We inherited one such relic when we moved into our 1880s farmhouse almost twenty years ago, and this lone specimen on the western…

  • Millstone seventh-graders give the gift of words

    Millstone Middle School students hone their writing skills by exchanging holiday essays. By: Lauren Burgoon    MILLSTONE — The holiday spirit of giving was alive in Audrey Ferraro’s seventh-grade English classes at Millstone Middle School last week. But some of the gifts that the students gave each other — like a trip to Bermuda — were…

  • Land rezoning OK’d to settle builder’s lawsuit

    Ordinance moves borough closer to settlement By:Roger Alvarado    The Borough Council has formally approved an enabling ordinance that will amend the borough’s current zoning to allow for 10 townhouse units to be built on a 1-acre site along 13th Avenue and Brooks Boulevard.    On Monday, the council voted 4-1, with Councilwoman Susan Asher casting the…