Category: archives

  • Share wealth with homeless

    To the editor By:    While you’re sitting in your warm cozy house, there are homeless people struggling to find a home. I believe everyone should help the homeless people or they won’t survive.    If you are walking in a street and you see a homeless person, don’t just stare at them. If you see someone…

  • Vikings got 15 wins in ways they never imagined

    By: Redd E. Patrick    The 2003-04 season was like a journey into the Twilight Zone for the South Brunswick High School boys basketball team.    Before the season began, second-year coach Dave Turco looked over his schedule, appraised the competition and figured a 15-win season could be in store. His main goal was to improve on…

  • LETTER: Time to re-examine district’s mission

    To the editor     I am once again asking for your support as we approach the school board elections on April 20. I am a candidate for the school board and I am very interested in providing the best opportunities for the children of this district.    I have spent my entire life in the field…

  • Mahoney cited for football, academics

    By: Rich Fisher    Evan Mahoney will be honored at a football banquet this Sunday, and much of it has to do with his talent on the field.    But what Mahoney has done in the classroom was his main ticket to the head table.    Mahoney is South Brunswick High’s selection to be honored by the National…

  • Sectional champs working hard to get back on track

    By: Sean Moylan    After four consecutive South Jersey Group I titles, Charlie Miller and his Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity track and field squad will face their greatest challenge to date this season.    Not only have superstars like Steve DiLemme and Kevin Barnett graduated, but Bordentown has also made the move up to Central…

  • Academic team gets high marks

    Northern Burlington County Regional High School students take second place in regional Academic Decathlon competition. By: Eve Collins    MANSFIELD — How many kids are there who enjoy studying? Not many, you might say.    But at Northern Burlington County Regional High School, there are at least 12 and they have been cleaning up at Academic Decathlon…

  • New accessible development opens in Lawrence

    Latest Project Freedom boasts 54 units on 13 acres. By: Lea Kahn    With a snip of the ribbon, Project Freedom — an affordable rental apartment complex designed for the disabled — was officially opened by Mayor Mark Holmes and Project Freedom officials.    The 54-unit development, located on a 13-acre parcel off Princeton Avenue and Betts…

  • Recalling life before Roosevelt

    FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster    I am not one of the borough residents who has always lived here in Roosevelt. I grew up in East Brunswick. Since my marriage I have moved around the central New Jersey area plenty. We spent three years living in southern Virginia as well.    The first home my husband and…

  • Hemlock poised to lose biological battle in state

    This is the second in a two-part series examining scientists’ efforts to protect endangered New Jersey plants. By: Scott Morgan    The snapshot is a perfectly seized moment of ecological horror — wetlands thick and green and deeply purple like a swirl of jelly on a summer lawn.    But look at the one below it. The…