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  • Raiders face Immaculata for county crown

    Old rivals meet again with SCT title on line By: Rudy Brandl    This one should be fun.    Tonight’s Somerset County baseball championship game at Commerce Bank Park, which was postponed from Memorial Day because of rain, features two old rivals in both the coaching and playing circles. Area supremacy is truly on the line in…

  • Leake places third in Group III high jump

    By: Sean Moylan    Latasha Leake, the best jumper in the history of the Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity track and field squad, is finishing her distinguished career off with a bang.    This past weekend, Leake jumped 5-4 inches to take third place in the high jump event at the NJSIAA Group III…

  • Firefighters seek to join benefit run

    Four Florence firefighters will participate in the third annual Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5k Run/Walk in New York City. By: Allison Busacca    Three years ago on Sept. 11, Stephen Siller, an off-duty Brooklyn firefighter and a father of five, sprinted the mile-long stretch from Brooklyn to Manhattan with his gear on his back to…

  • OBITUARIES

       Diane Arrington    Dianne Arrington, 50, of South Brunswick, died Sunday, May 23, at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison.    Born in Columbia, Miss., she was a lifelong resident of New Brunswick and recently moved to South Brunswick. She was a graduate of New Brunswick High School and attended Rutgers University. A 1997 retiree from…

  • Cancer relay returns to Manville next week

    Relay for Life at MHS track June 11 By:Roger Alvarado    Groups of walkers will take to the track at Manville High School next weekend as part of an 18-hour fund-raising event aimed at helping researchers find a cure for all forms of cancer.    The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, a volunteer driven community fund-raiser,…

  • PERCEPTIONS: History may be rewritten Saturday

    Is Smarty Jones generation’s first Triple Crown champ? By: Steve Feitl    This will be a big sports weekend, with the third month of the Major League Baseball season in full swing, Game 6 of a closely contested Stanley Cup Finals skating Saturday evening, and the first game of the NBA Finals tipping off Sunday night.…

  • Hopewell wins division championship outright

    Golf By: John E. Powers    The gelling of the Hopewell Valley Central High School golf team came at the right time.    The Bulldogs completed an outstanding 13-2 season with a 195-209 win over West Windsor-Plainsboro South last Wednesday that gave them the Colonial Valley Conference Patriot Division title.    South had beaten West Windsor-Plainsboro North the…

  • Township considers reassessment

    Burlington County Board of Taxation is requiring Mansfield to reassess or revalue properties in town. By: Scott Morgan    MANSFIELD — With township houses assessed at 73 percent of market value — and sliding — the Burlington County Board of Taxation is requiring Mansfield to reassess or revalue properties in town.    County Tax Assessor Ozzie Vituscka…

  • Letters to the Editor, June 3, 2004

    DARE event successful To the editor:     On May 25, the Hopewell Township police hosted our annual DARE picnic in the Washington Crossing State Park. The weather was great and the event was well attended. I would like to thank the following sponsors who make this picnic possible each year: Pennington Market, Richie and Paige…