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  • Mudslinging ads may haunt NJ candidates

    EDITORIAL By Rick Sinding    Election Day is over — which means, among other things, that TV and radio commercials can now get back to selling us stuff we don’t need instead of stuff we don’t want.    Every year at this time, we think the tone of political campaigns can’t get any meaner, any nastier, any…

  • AHS wins MCT field hockey

    By: Kyle Moylan    Prior to this season, no public school had won the Mercer County Field Hockey Tournament since 1985.    Then again, this was the first time Allentown competed in the event.    Fittingly, Allentown got a prep school in the championship game this past Saturday. Lindsey Leck, the area’s leading scorer, put in a goal…

  • Abate loses 30-year seat

    Millstone voters choose Republicans Grbelja and Abilheira for Township Committee seats. By: Sarah Winkelman    MILLSTONE — Democrat Charles Abate was soundly defeated in Tuesday’s election after 30 years on the Township Committee.    Mr. Abate and his running mate, David Lee, lost to former township Environmental Commissioner Nancy Grbelja, a Republican, and campaign newcomer Elias Abilheira,…

  • Balaam and Mauer

    John Balaam    John L. Balaam, 61, of Lower Makefield Township, Pa., died Nov. 4, at the Frankford Hospital-Bucks Campus.    Born in Trenton and formerly of Pennington, he had been a Lower Makefield resident for 37 years.    Mr. Balaam was a certified public accountant. He was a partner in the Princeton Accounting Firm of Danser, Balaam…

  • Relaxed Vikes eye cross country sectionals

    By: Redd E. Patrick    The future of the South Brunswick High School boys and girls cross country programs will be on display Saturday at the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV State Sectionals.    Seniors Ryan O’Laughlin and Sari Kaufman will be competing in their final scholastic competition, while the remaining 12 Vikings (each team can use…

  • Volpe nets four goals for HoVal

    Field hockey By: Jim Green    One week after being shut out in the quarterfinals of the Mercer County Tournament, the Hopewell Valley Central High School field hockey team was relying on its offense to carry it through the first round of the state tournament.    Senior center midfielder Lauren Volpe took charge Tuesday, netting her team’s…

  • Pool players raise $1,700 for victim’s family

    Fund-raising tournaments continue Saturday By:Beth Kressel    Two Manville businesses raised about $1,700 to donate to the family of Jacqueline Bodo.    The 23-year-old Lincoln Avenue resident was murdered and her body was left on the train tracks underneath the Bridge Street Bridge Oct. 12. Robert Carman Jr., 35, of East Camplain Road was charged with the…

  • Enduring Serenity

    The Chant Choir of Trinity Cathedral in Trenton will take on the unusual task of performing an entire Mass in chant on Nov. 16. By: Susan Van Dongen Staff Photo by Frank Wojciechowski Members of the Chant Choir of Trinity Cathedral prepare for their performance on Nov. 16. In the seventh century, when Pope Gregory…

  • Union signs up public support

    Distributes 1,000 placards backing district teachers. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    Signs with pro-teacher slogans can be found on the front lawns of residents throughout South Brunswick.    The signs, 1,000 of them, were distributed by the South Brunswick Education Association Saturday in an attempt to demonstrate public support for teachers during their contract negotiations with the district.…