Category: archives

  • Letter: Board deserves teachers’ respect

    To the editor:     As the wife of a school board member and a citizen of South Brunswick, I am writing this letter as a way of expressing my displeasure and surprise with the conduct, which has gone on at the last two school board meetings. I think the line of respect and disrespect has…

  • Mum’s the word this time of year

    FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster    Garden parties have come to an end. We are well into the revel of a jolting hay ride, the thrill of a skeleton and the chestnut warmth of a glowing pumpkin. Taste juicy apples and hot, tangy cider. Go out and get yourself some mums.    Chrysanthemums are an extraordinary sight…

  • Oct. 30, 4:52 p.m.: Tip-off time

    NBA season begins. The Knicks’ season ends before it starts. By: Hank Kalet    Two nights down in the NBA and it remains too early to make any judgments. That said, there are some things worth noting:    1. Knick fans like me are in for a long season. Not only did the team blow a 10-point…

  • For the love of football

    Benefit car wash is held. Staff photo by Robyn C. Stein Will Fabrizio (left) and Sean Wood wash a car during the car wash held Saturday at Hopewell Valley Central High School to benefit HIKE, the local football fund-raising group.

  • 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…