Category: archives

  • Game Theories: Where there’s a wall, there’s a way

    Game Theories by Scott Morgan: Register-News writer cheats old man winter for a brief game of wall ball. By: Scott Morgan    "Tennis Only." Yeah, I don’t pay attention to unmanned signs. Too cold to listen to warnings on unmanned signs, too cold for The Man to be on the prowl for violators anyway.    Signs of…

  • Hopewell hockey squad looking to pick up pace

    Ice hockey By: Mike Molaro    If the Hopewell Valley Central High School ice hockey team wants to make some noise in the Mercer County and state tournaments, it will have to play better than it did in a pair of losses last week.    The Bulldogs (13-7-1 overall, 8-2-1 in the Colonial Valley Conference) dropped a…

  • South Brunswick hopes to enjoy a long post-season run in ice hockey

    By: Ken Weingartner    It’s tune-up time for the South Brunswick High ice hockey team.    The Vikings (11-9 overall) will play in the Southern Conference Red Division playoffs with an eye toward getting ready for what they hope will be a long skate through the state’s postseason round.    "We’ll be playing some quality teams," SB coach…

  • AHS girls’ basketball heading in right direction

    By: Kyle Moylan    Two wins. Five wins. Nine and counting.    Make no mistake about it, the Allentown High School girls’ basketball team is heading in the right direction.    Starting with a two-win season just two years ago, Allentown has been making steady progress in building its girls’ basketball program.    "Our goal was to win 10…

  • Council approves contract for storm sewer work

    By:Roger Alvarado    The Borough Council has unanimously awarded a contract for $87,000 worth of repairs and upgrades to many of its manholes and storm water catch basins.    According to Borough Administrator Gary Garwacke, the borough has received a total of $125,000 in grant funds from the Somerset County Community Development Block Grant Program to use…

  • DISPATCHES: Money is the root of Yankees’ evil

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Yankees’ payroll reaches $200 million with A-Rod acquisition and competitive balance suffers. By: Hank Kalet    I don’t know that I can be a baseball fan anymore.    I don’t know that I can sit down and watch a game in which the competitive balance is so skewed toward the teams with money,…

  • HHS boys come out flat in county quarters

    Poor shooting dooms team at B-R By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team hit a wall in Monday night’s Somerset County quarterfinal game at Bridgewater-Raritan. Unfortunately, that wall didn’t contain a net because the Raiders couldn’t hit anything in this game.    Horrendous shooting from both the field and the free throw line doomed…

  • Rec director lauded for dinner and dance

    To the editor By:    What a love-ly time!    My husband and I attended the Valentine’s Day dinner and dance this past Saturday evening and we had an amazing time. The food was delicious and the music was fantastic, spanning many generations.    (Borough Recreation Direction) Rich Armstrong and his staff are remarkable and we thank them…

  • ‘Pay to play’ plan finalized Tuesday

    Lawrence ordinance includes county exemption. By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence Township’s version of campaign finance reform, outlined in an ordinance that would limit the amount of money that professionals could contribute to a municipal political campaign, gained final approval Tuesday night.    The ordinance to stop the practice known as "pay to play" was adopted by a…