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Arts commission sets slate for June 26 Showcase
Annual Fourth of July celebration caps group’s busy year By:Minx McCloud Grab your folding chairs and blankets, folks. It’s that time of year again. Showcase 2004, the seventh annual showcase of performers will be presented 7:30 p.m., June 26, at the Auten Road School (rain date: June 27). The Hillsborough Township Cultural Arts Commission sponsors…
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EDITORIAL: Pencil ready, venture into a larger life
We have never been asked to give a commencement speech. And considering that we are neither famous nor running for public office, we aren’t expecting an invitation to do so any time soon. But that doesn’t mean we’re going to let a chance to address this year’s high school graduates slip by. Quite frankly, with…
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Legion team off to fast start
Raiders rock Immaculata for fourth in row By: Rudy Brandl The Hillsborough American Legion baseball team enjoyed a little emphatic payback Sunday afternoon. Less than two weeks after losing a heart-breaking game to Immaculata in the Somerset County finals, the Raiders faced their local rivals on the Legion diamond in Hillsborough and rolled to…
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Athletic director position safe in Lawrence
Committee finds other areas for budget reductions. By: Steve Feitl There will be an athletic director at Lawrence High School next fall despite consideration given to eliminating the position, according the school board president. "The cut will not be made," Board of Education President Phil Benson said Tuesday. "We were able to find enough savings…
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Rider’s Rich excited to be a Yankee
School’s hits leader to play for S.I. Yanks By: Jim Green It didn’t take long for Scott Rich to be officially introduced to all the aura and mystique that’s said to surround the New York Yankees. Rich, Rider University’s all-time hits leader, was drafted by the Yankees in the 21st round of last week’s amateur…
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SBHS seniors approach graduation
Post-high school life to be exciting, intimidating By:Sharlee Joy DiMenichi Life after the last echoes of "Pomp and Circumstance" looks both exciting and intimidating to South Brunswick High School seniors. College-bound members of the graduating class said they are eager for the adventures that lie ahead but daunted by the solitude and unfamiliar surroundings they…
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Up Close with Hospitality
The Prices of Montgomery make friends in foreign lands with their digital cameras. By: Susan Van Dongen Dennis A. Price’s urge to roam was inherited from his father, Dennis P. Price, an emergency-room physician and world traveler. An image from Vietnam by Mr. A. Price. In the movie Apocalypse Now, the phrase "never get off…
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Police seek missing man
Disabled man missing for three weeks, last seen in South Brunswick By:Matthew Kirdahy South Brunswick police said a Monroe Township man, whose undisclosed medical disability prohibits him from driving, has been missing for three weeks and was last seen in South Brunswick. Lars Sorenson, 55, a 6-foot, 170-pound white man with gray hair and blue…
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Hopewell Valley citizens seek release of school fields funds
Fran Bartlett and Sheryl Stone called on the committee to release promised money as soon as possible so work on a detention basin can start this summer. By John Tredrea Last December, the Hopewell Township Committee added another chapter to the lengthy Back Timberlane saga by adopting an ordinance under which the township would contribute…
