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  • Jan. 15, 5:18 p.m.: Finally a potential local finance fix

    So now the petition drive may begin. By: Hank Kalet    So, we finally have a citizens group willing to take on the excessive spending in South Brunswick political campaigns into their own hands. It’s about time. The amount of money being spent here is obscene.    Here is what we said in an editorial this week.…

  • South Brunswick clergy ponder King’s impact

    Matters of Faith: Township clergy look at how the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King affected their own lives and beliefs. By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Editor’ s note: Matters of Faith is an occasional series focusing on religion and faith in the South Brunswick community.    Calling the assassinated civil rights leader a prophet, township clergy said…

  • Heavy snow, school referenda marked end of 2003

    This is the fourth in a series of four articles recapping some of the events of 2003 as reported in the Register-News. By: Vanessa S. Holt The following dates reflect the issue in which the story was published. Oct. 2    NJ Transit officials announced that trains running along the coming Southern New Jersey Light Rail…

  • Track teams looking to score at Group 4 relays

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        A year ago, the Hillsborough High indoor track and field teams led the State Group 4 Relay Championships with one event remaining. Neither team won and the HHS girls wound up losing by fractions of a second.    Raider head coach Rich Refi doesn’t expect either of his team’s to…

  • Project Graduation aided by event

    To the editor    Project Graduation would like to thank Gary Verhoorn for all his hard work in running the third annual Resolution 5K Run and Walk on New Year’s Day.    Mr. Verhoorn is the founder and director of the Resolution 5k Run and Walk, and this year’s race was a great success. At 11 a.m.…

  • Positive approach a wise choice

    FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster    So how are ya feelin’? Did you survive the holiday blast? Some people prefer to expunge every clue of December from their residence before the stroke of midnight on the first of the year.    I’m still cleaning up, myself. The tree’s de-trimmed but still in the house. There area few…

  • NBC boys’ basketball clinches a playoff spot

    By: Kyle Moylan    It might have lacked the same level of drama, but the Northern Burlington boys’ basketball team is heading back to the state playoffs.    Last season Northern Burlington had to reschedule a game in order to qualify for the playoffs on the last possible day. This past Tuesday, Northern Burlington clinched a spot…

  • Sophie Onka

       HILLSBOROUGH — Sophie M. (Kowalski) Onka died Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Robert Wood University Hospital in New Brunswick. She was 90.    Born in Bayonne, she was raised in Bayonne and resided in Manville before settling in Hillsborough 51 years ago.    Mrs. Onka was an active member of the Hillsborough and Manville Senior Citizens.    She…

  • Manville volunteer called to duty in Iraq

    David Yusiewicz attending training at Fort Dix    Just weeks before the holidays, David Yusiewicz, a 4-year member of the Manville First Aid Squad, as the New Jersey National Guard division he also belongs to was called to active duty.    His division will be sent to serve in Iraq after a six week period of training…