Category: archives

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY: It’s time to talk openly with teens about suicide

    KIDS AND COMMUNITY By Judy Shepps Battle As a society, we cannot afford to turn our heads the other way.    It always is a tragedy when a young person’s life is cut short through illness or accident. But it is especially painful when such a death involves suicidal intention.    The recent death of 15-year-old Richard…

  • Dawgs take out frustrations on Nottingham

    Pennington girls basketball By: Mike Molaro    Even though it is the holiday season, the Hopewell Valley Central High School boys ice hockey squad was not in a festive mood.    The Bulldogs were on the wrong end of a three game losing streak — three games that, to a man, they know they could’ve won. They…

  • LHS, LMS both in need of improvement

    Schools fail to meet all NCLB requirements. By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence High School and Lawrence Middle School have been designated as "schools in need of improvement" because they failed to meet all 40 requirements set out under the federal No Child Left Behind legislation for the second year in a row.    The two schools have…

  • Bordentown boys and girls basketball advance to title games in own tourneys

    By: Sean Moylan    The Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity basketball team’s brilliant one-two punch of Sam McDuffie (20 points) and Danny Sasso (12 points) combined to score 32 of the Scotties points in a 49-37 victory over Haddon Township in Tuesday night’s Michael J. Tucker Memorial Tournament at Bordentown.    "We were leading (big) then…

  • Woman, 55, dies in Franklin fire

    Smoke wafting from trailer alerts police, woman found locked inside. By: Joseph Harvie    The investigation of a 55-year-old woman, who committed suicide by dousing herself and a portion of a trailer, parked in front of a Route 27 home, with gasoline and igniting it on Dec. 21, is ongoing, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said…

  • Pennington Council defers action on King George project

    Bid award put off because some borough officials are unhappy over JPZ’s failure to complete previous work in the borough on time. By John Tredrea    Over half of Monday’s four-hour Pennington Borough Council meeting was consumed by an intense hearing on whether to award a contract for road work on King George Road.    The lowest…

  • Ordog lifts Florence boys’ basketball to OT win

    By: Sean Moylan    It was billed as the battle of Burlington County’s best basketball coaches—Art Bobik (over 400 wins and three Group I state championships for Florence Township memorial High School) and the County’s all-time wins leader, Paul Collins (who coached three decades for Willingboro before moving on to Riverside).    However, by the fourth quarter…

  • Bus drivers deserve consideration

    To the editor By:    I am writing in response to your article about the school bus driver, who hit the brakes and children were injured.    In his defense, I would say that while it may have been a lapse in judgement on his part, it was not done with malice toward the children.    This is…

  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 30, 2004

    Routes 29/546 intersection important, too To the editor:     Those of us close to the Route 29/Route 546 (Washington Crossing-Pennington Road) intersection expected the DOT would propose changes. After all, the intersection has a "F" rating and has produced frequent accidents.    Southbound Route 29 cars and gravel trucks pass a few feet from vehicles parked…