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  • Program has students cross social lines

    Upper Freehold students participate in Mix It Up Day, a program meant to stress tolerance and acceptance of differences. By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — It’s not easy for the average middle school student to break away from friends and go out on a limb sitting with a new social group at lunchtime. But that…

  • Dennis wins Group 4 title

    HHS star heads to M of C By: Rudy Brandl    Brian Dennis insists he still hasn’t peaked, even after Saturday’s outstanding championship performance in the State Group 4 Cross Country Championships at Holmdel Park.    The Hillsborough High junior made history by becoming the school’s first State Group 4 cross country champ and shaved 12 seconds…

  • EDITORIAL: McGreevey term marked by scandal

    Can Codey restore luster to tarnished office?    The stormy three-year tenure of Gov. James E. McGreevey has mercifully come to a close.    Nearly three months after announcing to the state and the world that he is a "gay American" and that he would step down from the office he had aspired to for entire political…

  • Chemistry concocts wins for Pennington

    Pennington football By: Mike Molaro    The record books say that the 2004 season was the best for The Pennington School football squad in a decade.    Veteran Red Raider coach Jerry Eure definitely agrees, but only partly because of the 8-1 record. "The Chief" is more satisfied with how his guys matured and developed into a…

  • McGuire chairs Hopewell Township charter study group

    Commission has invited Ernest C. Reock Jr., professor emeritus from Rutgers University Center for Government Research, to attend either the Nov. 29 or Dec. 6 meeting and is awaiting confirmation. By John Tredrea    Attorney Jim McGuire of Vannoy Avenue will chair Hopewell Township’s five-member Charter Study Commission, which will scrutinize the township’s present form of…

  • BRHS football squad pours it on in the ra

    By: Sean Moylan    A muddy Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity football team splashed its way to a 28-6 victory over Pennsville in last Friday night’s consolation road game, which was played in a steady downpour.    When asked how his players liked playing in a hard rain, Bordentown head coach Jack Yost answered, "They loved…

  • Now Sharon Reed can put Pennington behind her

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse    The report last week that Pennington Borough officials had OK’d an out-of-court agreement under which a lawsuit involving former Borough Clerk Sharon Reed was dropped was very good news for me, and, I think, for many citizens and some former and current elected officials.    Under the settlement, Ms. Reed will…

  • George Quigley

    By:    MANVILLE – George Nelson Quigley died Nov. 10 at home. He was 95.    Born in Mongo, La Grange County, Ind., he moved to New Jersey in 1915 and settled in Neshanic, he then moved to Manville in 1927 where he lived the rest of his life.    Mr. Quigley was a U.S. Postal employee in…

  • From Baroque to Gamelan

    Participants in Dean Poulsen’s hands-on workshops on gamelan will learn how the instruments are used, different tuning systems and proper performance technique. By: Susan Van Dongen "In a gamelan orchestra, all the instruments are made at one time so they’re tuned to the same pitch," says Dean Poulsen, who plays the reyong.    Western classical orchestras…