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  • News submission tips that should make everyone’s job easier

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    On Tuesday, Sept. 7, public schools in Hopewell Valley will open. Along with schools, area clubs and organizations will be getting back to business and again will begin to submit news about their activities and coming events.    If you are one of the many people in Hopewell Valley responsible for submitting…

  • Letter: School is opening, drive carefully

       To the editor:     This coming Tuesday, Sept. 7, starts a new school year for the South Brunswick public schools.    More than 8,000 children will board buses, walk and be driven to school start the new school year. These first few school days are full of excitement and sometimes anxiety.    Everyone can help to make…

  • Central High and Timberlane all set for Tuesday opening

    Mangiaracina and Cochrane discuss their schools. By Ruth Luse    The principals of Central High School and Timberlane Middle School recently shared back-to-school news with the HVN.    Central High will be led this year by Principal Joseph C. Mangiaracina and Vice Principals Kathleen B. D’Ambra and Dennis M. Vinson.    Mr. Mangiaracina, who came to HoVal as…

  • Helping seniors apply for tax relief

    Members of State Assemblyman Bill Baroni’s Office will be at Pierre’s Friday to sign seniors up for property tax relief program. By: Joseph Harvie    Assemblyman Bill Baroni, a Republican whose 14th District includes South Brunswick, wants seniors to sign up for the Property Tax Relief Program.    The program, which has a deadline of Sept. 8,…

  • Bunn takes over Cards tennis team

    Lawrence girls tennis By: Jim Green    As far as first-year coach Sue Bunn can tell, the Lawrence High School girls tennis team isn’t going to feature a standout No. 1 singles player this fall.    But in a sport where it’s better to have many good players than one or two great players, that might not…

  • Toward the Devil’s Half Acre, Part 4 of 4

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    Another chapter from Henry Charlton Beck’s 1939 "Fare to Midlands," subtitled as above and titled "Town Aliases Again," remembers the changing names of local families and recites rhymes from the headstones of those dearly departed. It finishes with reminisces of old railroads, especially our own Union Transportation Company, or U.T. This is a…

  • Student language arts skills on the rise

    Officials credit renewed focus for test results. By: Lea Kahn    School district officials say an emphasis on language arts skills have begun to pay off, based on a comparison of the same group of children who took state-mandated tests in fourth grade and then again in eighth grade.    School district officials have received the results…

  • All is One

    Tripsichore Yoga fuses an ancient discipline with the beauty of dance. By: Susan Van Dongen Tripsichore Yoga fuses an ancient discipline with the beauty of dance.    To yoga purists who seek to find inner peace and a sense of oneness with spirit, a group that takes yoga "on the road" and presents it in a…

  • Letter: Writer crossed line of civility

    To the editor:     The next time you print a column like Mirah Riben’s, you might want to border it in black and issue a hate-speech warning. Ms. Riben makes skinheads look like sweet old grannies.    Does the writer really believe that insulting people by calling them stupid, weak-minded, greedy, easily manipulated, under educated, lazy,…