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  • HoVal girls performing on defense

    Hopewell Valley girls soccer By: Mike Molaro    If there was a concern about the Hopewell Valley Central High School girls soccer squad this year, it may have been its ability to step it up defensively.    That bullet-point emphatically was erased from the board last week, as the Lady Bulldogs (7-2 overall, 7-1 in the Colonial…

  • Viking marching band on national TV

    High school marching band to be featured on the Jane Pauley show. By: Melissa Hayes    A group of South Brunswick High School marching band members will be featured on Friday’s airing of NBC’s "Jane Pauley Show."    "The show was a special on football and high schools and how football creates a community," said drum major…

  • Steel’s higher prices trouble for library

    Additional funds needed for shelving, tables By:Emily Craighead    Rising steel prices left the Hillsborough Public Library $50,000 short of what it needs to furnish its expanded facility expected to open Nov. 15.    "We’ll be able to open with what we have," Library Director Virginia Parks said. "It’ll be stained, wobbly and dirty, but we are…

  • Hopewell Borough must address problem in two wells

    New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is requiring borough officials to address a problem with radionuclides. Officials face a May 7, 2005 deadline to comply. By Francis Mahoney    On Monday night, Hopewell Borough Engineer Dennis O’Neal updated members of Hopewell Borough Council on the problem of radionuclides in two of the town’s wells.    According to…

  • Local girls’ soccer teams all in race to make states

    By: Sean Moylan    "Right now we have to re-find ourselves," said Bordentown Regional High School girls’ varsity soccer coach Dominick Castaldo.    While the 6-3 Scotties need to win just one more game over the next two weeks to qualify for the playoffs, Castaldo would like to see his club generate more offense, especially with the…

  • Gifted students take on the ‘ultimate challenge’

    Chesterfield Elementary School gifted and talented students learn scientific and geometric principles needed to understand how machines work. By: Scott Morgan    CHESTERFIELD — That name. "The Ultimate Big Air Ball Tower." It sounds like lingo straight out of the X-Games.    So Rebecca Schukraft calls it something else. "Frustrating. That’s what I call it."    If Rebecca…

  • PERCEPTIONS: Autumn’s somewhat tardy arrival

    All elements of a perfect fall are now in place. By: Steve Feitl    I stepped outside sometime past 8 p.m. Tuesday evening and was pleasantly surprised by what I felt.    I had been cooped up in our Hopewell office all day — all morning and then from lunchtime on — so I hadn’t noticed that…

  • Lawrence de-claws Little Tigers

    Lawrence football By: Jim Green    This certainly is shaping up to be a memorable season.    The Lawrence High School football team used a balanced offensive attack Saturday to improve to 3-0 with a 41-18 pounding of Princeton at PHS. With three straight impressive wins to open the season — the Cardinals have outscored their opponents…

  • Residents complain of late trash pickup

    Bordentown Township residents voice concern over problems with garbage collection. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Township officials and residents are talking trash.    They say they want to know why Central Jersey Waste and Recycling Inc., the township’s garbage collection company, is not abiding by the terms of the contract it signed two years ago…