Category: archives

  • Mustangs looking forward to Sky slate

    Team must start scoring By: John E. Powers        Not all is lost for the Manville High School boys’ soccer team. In fact, how many teams can say they are still in a division race at 0-7-1?    Manville has yet to play a Mountain Valley Conference Sky Division opponent, but that was scheduled to begin…

  • HHS teams poised to gain county respect

    SCT PREVIEWS By: Rudy Brandl        Hillsborough High’s soccer and field hockey teams didn’t receive much respect at last week’s Somerset County Tournament seeding meetings. Instead of whining about their bracket placement, two of those HHS squads went out and proved on the field that most of the county coaches were wrong.    The HHS boys,…

  • Letters to the Editor

    For the Oct. 7 issue. Residents urge: don’t get fooled again    To the editor:    In November of 2003, three days prior to the last election, we received a flyer in the mail from "COWS" (Citizens Opposed to Wasteful Spending). The topic of the flyer was unabashed mud slinging aimed at Kelly Shea who was running…

  • LETTER: Kerry is a leader we can trust

    To the editor:     In the first presidential debate, I was hoping to hear two things.    Sen. Kerry staked out a strong plan to bring peace to Iraq and to refocus our efforts to fight terrorists around the world.    Second, I wanted to hear President Bush tell the truth about Iraq, but he refused. While…

  • Energized electorate

    Borough’s voter tally grows By:Roger Alvarado    Since the June primary at least 150 borough residents have registered to vote in this year’s election, according to the Somerset County Board of Elections, increasing the local voter roll by 3 percent.    With less than four weeks left before this year’s pivotal presidential election, election officials across the…

  • Bercari lifts Bordentown to fifth win

    By: Sean Moylan    Some may have been surprised by the Bordentown Regional High School field hockey team’s 2-0 victory over Holy Cross last Friday. In truth, the entire year has been somewhat surprising for Bordentown.    Brooke Bercari scored two second-half goals to provide the margin of victory. Liz Crawford set up Bercari’s second tally.    "They…

  • LETTERS: Camarota gets support

    To the editor:     I recently received a post car inviting me to attend a tea to meet the Democratic candidates for this year’s Township Council election. My initial reaction, as it has been in the past, was to not go since I am not a very politically involved person. However, this year I actually…

  • Psychoanalyzing the President

    Dr. Justin Frank puts ‘Bush on the Couch.’ By: Susan Van Dongen DR. JUSTIN FRANK    The President of the United States needs an intervention. Dr. Justin A. Frank hopes he’ll get one Nov. 2, or else things could get pretty chaotic in this country.    The author of Bush on the Couch (ReganBooks, $24.95) is concerned…

  • Team building

    ABIS students’ trip teaches special lessons By:Emily Craighead    Manville seventh graders faced a 50-pound alligator and a Burmese python, scaled a mountain and escaped from a labyrinth, all in the course of a three-day fieldtrip.    From Sept. 27 to Sept. 29, 58 Alexander Batcho Intermediate School (ABIS) students explored the wilds of the Stokes State…