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  • Graduation party needs help

    By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    As graduation looms, Project Graduation volunteers find themselves with shallow pockets and short on help.    Roberta Weiss, a volunteer organizer for the drug-free post-graduation party, said the cancellation of September’s Community Unity Day and the Dardani’s Haunted Trail in October has hit the event hard, with money raised from those two…

  • Relay for Life to salute cancer survivors

    Last year, the New Egypt event raised a total of $91,000. Nationwide, the relay raised $265 million for the American Cancer Society. By: Dan Sergeant    PLUMSTED — The American Cancer Society is looking for volunteers to participate in the annual Relay for Life event being held June 12 through 13 at the New Egypt High…

  • Vikes are golden in six GMC events

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    It’s not what a person wears, but how he/she accessorizes that defines style.    That means that several South Brunswick High School track and field athletes are ready for any runway after picking up gold medals to go with their black and gold uniforms. Four boys and two girls came in first…

  • Early deadline for HVN’s June 3 edition

    Copy, photos due by 3 p.m. May 28. By Ruth Luse    Because of the Memorial Day holiday, May 31, the deadline for submission of news copy, letters to the editor, etc., for the June 3 edition of the HVN is May 28 at 3 p.m. This includes letters for JUNE PRIMARY CAMPAIGN CORNER.    All photos…

  • Labor of love produces songs of hope

    Parkinson’s benefit CD continues family tribute. By: Steve Feitl    There’s a new collection featuring singer-songwriters showing up in record stores across the country and online music outlets. And while a double-CD set featuring well-known artists like Bonnie Raitt, David Crosby and Graham Nash will surely have national appeal, the genesis of the album can be…

  • Ruth Graves

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Ruth Doris (Bonfer) Graves died May 12 in Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 85.    Born in Hillsborough, she lived there the majority of her life. Mrs. Graves was employed as a pipe fitter for Johns-Manville Corp. during World War II.    Her husband, Clarence William Graves, died in 2003.    A funeral…

  • Grace May Serafin-Mangino

       Grace May Serafin-Mangino died at birth on May 8.    She is survived by her adoptive parents, Jayne and Fred Mangino of Hopewell Township; her birth mother Catherine; siblings, Amanda, Michelle, Cheyanne and Sam; grandparents; an aunt, an uncle and cousins.    A memorial service was held at the McCracken Funeral Home, Union, on Tuesday.    Donations may…

  • Smith, Park lead Cards past Ewing

    Softball By: Jim Green    Lawrence High School softball coach Pete Cino just had a feeling Kathy Park was due.    After senior third baseman Rachael Smith crushed a double to lead off the bottom of the eighth inning of Tuesday’s state tournament first-round game against Ewing, Cino had a decision to make. He could ask the…

  • Red Raiders win Prep B title

    Softball By: Mike Molaro    The Pennington School softball team entered the 2004 season not really knowing where it stood on the talent meter.    While they weren’t an unknown quantity, these Red Raiders hadn’t yet forged their identity or set their sights on a sixth consecutive Prep B state championship.    "The girls were unsure of what…