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  • NBC golf team improves to 10-4

    By: Sean Moylan    In many ways, the Northern Burlington County Regional High School varsity golf team’s 164-183 win at Pemberton was a return to normalcy.    The Greyhounds finally got back in the low 160’s as a team.    As always, Matt Beers led his Greyhounds with a score of 39. However, someone on Pemberton shot better.…

  • Stealing petitioners’ thunder?

    Ostergren chastises committee on charter study By:Roger Alvarado    Former Republican Township Committeeman George Ostergren, who is spearheading a petition drive that calls for a change in Hillsborough’s form of government, says that if the all-Republican Township Committee passes a charter study commission ordinance later today its only motive will be to kill the petition drive.…

  • Parents say killer foretold son’s death

    By:Roger Alvarado    Tom and Mary Strenko said that on the night their hospitalized son was murdered, the nurse who has confessed to killing him and 13 other patients walked into the waiting room and told them that Michael was going to die.    The former Somerset Medical Center nurse Charles Cullen "was not his nurse, but…

  • Members named to new UF environmental panel

    Upper Freehold Township abolishes existing Environmental Commission and names seven members to the Environmental Advisory Committee. By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — A months- long process of reworking the town’s environmental panel ended last week after the seven new members of the Environmental Advisory Committee (EAC) were announced and the Environmental Commission officially was abolished.…

  • ‘Ain’t Misbehavin”

    Bristol Riverside Theatre concludes its mainstage season with this tribute to Fats Waller. By: Stuart Duncan    Ain’t Misbehavin’ might just be the perfect musical revue.    It is a blend of the music of the legendary Thomas "Fats" Waller and the contemporary genius of Richard Maltby (Baby and Starting Here, Starting Now), who molded Waller’s material…

  • Volunteerism up at Lawrence First Aid Squad

    Township has no plans to outsource service to hospital. By: Lea Kahn    Fears that the Lawrence Township First Aid and Rescue Squad may become a paid ambulance service have shriveled in the wake of a surge of interest in the squad by volunteer emergency medical technicians.    Township officials had considered farming out the emergency medical…

  • Art show Thursday to benefit D&R Greenway

       Delaware & Raritan Greenway, central New Jersey’s land trust, and Matteo & Co. in Princeton Shopping Center will hold a preview of selected works from the 2004 Greenway Gala Art Show at the store on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.    Susan Taylor, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, made a final selection of…

  • Spectacular cinematic treats

    MY TAKE by Rose McGlew    We are a movie-loving family.    Ever since we’ve had Replay TV (just like TiVo) installed, we very rarely watch regular television anymore. We record the shows we want to watch, skip the commercials and, voila… we catch up on a whole season of "Scrubs" in three hours. We no longer…

  • Picott and Calvo win MCC titles

    Spring track By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School girls track team finished just where it expected to at the Mercer County Championships on Saturday at West Windsor-Plainsboro North.    And, considering they expected a third-place finish, the Cardinals have plenty to be proud about.    "I’m very pleased with the girls’ performances," Lawrence coach Dave O’Neal…