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  • Black Cinema Classics

    The Fleet Newark Black Film Festival kicks off its 30th anniversary season June 30, and will include screenings at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton for the first time. By: Jim Boyle James Earl Jones (left) and Richard Harris star as two opposing fathers in Cry, the Beloved Country, part of the Fleet Newark…

  • LETTER: Kudos to senator on war vote

    To the editor:    I am pleased that U.S. Sens. Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg recently voted in favor of the war profiteering prevention amendment proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), which was defeated along party lines.    If passed, this measure would have subjected contractors working abroad to stiff penalties if they overcharged or cheated the…

  • Raiders played near-perfect baseball

    Team compiled 20-win season, repeated in Delaware By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High baseball team recently completed a fabulous 20-5 season, certainly one of the finest in school history.    However, those 20 wins probably aren’t the first thing the team will reflect upon when looking back at the 2004 campaign. Hillsborough ended the year…

  • League of Women Voters honors five

    Awards handed out for education at June 17 meeting. By: Lea Kahn    At the end of a week highlighted by Lawrence High School’s Class of graduation ceremony, two LHS graduates, two educators and a former school board president were honored by the Lawrence Chapter of the League of Women Voters.    Mark Savino and Brittany Maple…

  • HHS girls continued county dominance

    Melendez dominated meets By: Rudy Brandl        If it’s a Somerset County girls’ track and field meet, then Hillsborough High has been the winner every time throughout the last seven years.    While the HHS girls didn’t manage to repeat some of their outstanding accomplishments of the prior campaign, they certainly maintained their dominant hold on…

  • New businesses thrive at Railroad Place

    Women entrepreneurs are a driving force for its success. By: John Tredrea    The commercial life of Hopewell Borough’s Railroad Place is booming these days. A number of the businesses on that street are run by women who say the magnetic power of the borough’s renovated railroad station and "women helping women" are two of the…

  • Fountain of Life celebrates America

    Florence’s Fountain of Life Center will host the "We Love America Celebration" on Saturday, June 26 at 7 p.m. By: Melissa Kadish    FLORENCE — The Fountain of Life Center is hosting a patriotic show called the "We Love America Celebration" on June 26 at 7 p.m.    Pat Miller, director of public relations, said that the…

  • Drivers must change their phone habits

    Editorial    You would think that cellphones were all coated with glue, at the rate that peoples’ ears and hands seem to be inextricably attached to them. People previously forced to wait until they got home to have a conversation are now able to narrate their lives continuously through every activity they take part in, whether…

  • Falcons just shy of winning mark

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    For the second year in a row, the Monroe Township High School varsity softball team finished up just below .500. The Falcons went 10-12 overall and 5-9 in the Greater Middlesex Conference’s White Division.    On the positive side, Monroe qualified for the state tournament for the first time as a Group…