Category: archives
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Red Raider girls advance to prep tourney quarterfinals
Girls basketball By: Mike Molaro After The Pennington School defeated Solomon Schechter 34-10 in the quarterfinals of the state Prep B Tournament on Feb. 11, Red Raiders coach Dean Waters didn’t have to say much to his team about the triumph. "This was one of the worst games we played all year," Waters said. "We…
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Former officials receive jail time
Patrick G. Malloy, 69, who was New Hanover’s mayor for 37 years, will begin serving his prison term at the federal correction facility at Fort Dix within two months. By: Eve Collins NEW HANOVER A federal court on Tuesday sentenced former Mayor Patrick G. Malloy to six months in prison for tampering with a…
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Mayor: Home Depot eyeing SB Mall
Home improvement store looking at former Macy’s location. By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi Mayor Frank Gambatese has met with the owners of the South Brunswick Square Mall and officials from Home Depot about bringing the home-improvement store to the shopping center. Mayor Frank Gambatese said Tuesday night that the two companies discussed bringing either a Home…
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READER’S VOICE: The case for re-electing Bush
READER’S VOICE by Keith Rasmussen: Current president has captured Saddam, ousted the Taliban and opened dialog with North Korea. By: Keith Rasmussen It’s impossible to recall the events of Sept. 11, 2001, without a profound appreciation of how utterly they changed our country. By every meaningful measure culturally, militarily, politically, legally, economically things…
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Lady Raiders wake up in time
Kutch fuels rally to SCT semifinals By: Rudy Brandl Last year, the Hillsborough High girls never would have recovered from a dismal first half of basketball like the one they played in Monday night’s Somerset County quarterfinals. The game, and team’s tournament hopes, would have been done. More seasoned and experienced now, the Lady Raiders…
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Bulldogs roll through first round of counties
Boys basketball By: Mike Molaro After back-to-back games that he felt were giveaway victories, Tony Mormile was glad to see his Hopewell Valley Central High School boys basketball squad regroup Monday and defeat Allentown 45-33 at the Dawg Pound in the opening round of the Mercer County Tournament. The fifth-seeded Bulldogs (12-9 overall, 6-6 in…
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Three fire district elections in Hopewell Valley Saturday
Fire elections in both boroughs will be held in their respective firehouses. Pennington’s is on Broemel Place and Hopewell’s is at the intersection of South Greenwood and Columbia avenues. In the township, the election will be held at the municipal building. The polls will be open from 2 to 9 p.m. By John Tredrea Saturday…
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Leake advances to high jump Meet of Champions
By: Sean Moylan In all of the most important ways, Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity track and field star Latasha Leake did what she came to do at Sunday’s Group III Indoor Track and Field Championships at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. She finished third in the high jump with a leap of 5…
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Nicholas Klebanick
Nicholas Klebanick, 87, of New Brunswick, died Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Kendall Park. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he lived in Scranton Pa., for many years before moving to New Brunswick 50 years ago. Mr. Klebanick attended Scranton Technical High School, and was a graduate of Lackawanna School of Upholstering in Pennsylvania before working as an…
