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  • NBC girls’ cross country team 4th at BC Open

    By: Sean Moylan    The Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity cross country team, already having a breakthrough season, took a major step forward with a fourth-place finish at Friday’s Burlington County Open at Millcreek.    "On the girls’ side I think we did well. Five of the teams (at the Open) are top 10…

  • Hollywood East

    New Jersey is making a comeback as home to filmmaking. By: Jim Boyle A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe was partially filmed in Princeton.    Daina Krumins needs to find a 10-year-old boy. The filmmaker from Westfield is all set to begin shooting her next project, but she can’t find anyone to play one of the…

  • South Brunswick harriers please Jost at GMC races

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Last Saturday’s Greater Middlesex Conference Cross Country Championship was going to be the big test to find out the progress of the rebuilding programs at South Brunswick High School.    Both programs are doing just fine, thank you.    The Vikings finished sixth in both the boys and girls races. Considering everything, that…

  • Cardinals shine in first night game

    Football By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School football team’s running backs found plenty of daylight during the first night game ever at LHS.    With temporary floodlights illuminating the Lawrence High football field Saturday night, the Cardinals pounded away for a season high 221 yards rushing on the way to a 20-7 victory over Allentown.…

  • Edgebrook, Part 5

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    "Historically Speaking" resumes this week in The Messenger-Press with the fifth part in our series on Edgebrook. Years before Donald Dilatush’s column "Along Edges Brook" was a feature in this paper, Mrs. James West contributed her brief history of the old school in Hamilton Township. Now the site of large-scale commercial development on…

  • Dueling Chefs

    Chefs from the Mansion Inn’s Champagne Room and 20 other restaurants will compete for bragging rights at the second annual Bucks County Culinary Competition. By: Amy Brummer Staff photo by Amy Brummer Holly Hedge Estate in Solebury (above and below) will host the second annual Bucks County Culinary Competition Nov. 2.    In a region brimming…

  • Grieving friends hold riding safety rally

    Riders meet at favorite site of Jimmy Fierst Jr., killed Oct. 17 while crossing Amwell Road By:Cyndy Cannon    Bicycle motocross participants seem to possess an affinity for fearlessness — even invincibility. After all, lifting both bike wheels in mid-air above a clay track and vertical ramps is not a stunt for the faint-of-heart. It’s also…

  • Hopewell church offers carriage tours

    Contact Barry Davison, 466-2709, for tickets.    On Dec. 6, from 1-5 p.m., the Hopewell United Methodist Church will sponsor a horse and carriage tour of historic Hopewell.    The tour will originate at the Hopewell Railroad Station and follow a special route. The tour will include narration about special places of historic interest in Hopewell Borough.…

  • After-school groups focus on enjoying books together

    Roosevelt students launches club By:Beth Kressel    Roosevelt School students are the latest Manville residents to be gripped by reading fever.    An after-school book club started this October is just one more example of the district’s increasing emphasis on literacy skills.    Sybil Segars, a first-year fifth-grade teacher, called the book club "informal and intimate" and like…