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  • GOP candidates heard residents’ complaints

    CAMPAIGN CORNER To the editor:    Our names are Bob Wagner and Carl Suraci, and we are the Republican candidates for Hillsborough Township Committee.    Much has been already written about us and around us during this campaign season, mostly by people who don’t know us and have never met us, so we thought this might be…

  • Raiders fall short on late touchdown

    North Hunterdon takes advantage of fumbles By: Rudy Brandl    CLINTON — Dropped balls are the only things that stopped the Hillsborough High football team from staging an upset last Friday night at North Hunterdon.    The Raiders played their finest game of the 2003 season. They moved the ball on offense, delivered crunching hits on defense…

  • HoVal cross country squad keeps rolling

    Cross country By: John E. Powers    The boys and girls cross country teams at Hopewell Valley Central High School keep rolling on, as senior Derek Jablonski and junior Annie Carney continue to turn in outstanding individual performances.    Tom Benson of Steinert won the individual race at the rolling 5,000-meter course at Washington Crossing Park on…

  • 3 local schools miss test targets

    Placed on early warning list. By: Rebecca Tokarz    The district is working on ways to improve its language arts and math proficiency levels for students with disabilities after the state added three South Brunswick schools to its early warning list.    The early warning list is part of the No Child Left Behind legislation signed by…

  • South boys soccer stunned by Weir

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The South Brunswick High School boys’ varsity soccer team ran into a freight train this past Tuesday, and the driver of that train was Edison High senior forward, Ricky Weir. The Eagle striker used a second half hat trick to lead his team to a 4-1 victory over the home team…

  • Cross country team wins again

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High cross country team improved its record to 4-1 with a 21-38 victory at Dayton last week.    Junior Mike Andreyko easily prevailed in the race, completing the short 2.9-mile course in a time of 17:38. Andreyko defeated a runner from Dayton by 40 seconds.    Manville sent the…

  • Post Forum: Negotiations

    Who is at fault for the current impasse between the school board and the teachers union? Who is at fault for the current impasse between the school board and the teachers union?

  • Cards roll past North

    Field hockey By: Steve Feitl    The Lawrence High School field hockey team doesn’t sweat playing an extra period. Perhaps it’s because the Cardinals have found a lot of success in overtime recently.    Lawrence used some timely passing to find the net and defeat Princeton, 3-2, in overtime Tuesday. Prior to that, the Cardinals knocked off…

  • Obituaries for week of Oct. 16

    Virginia Kreuzer    Virginia Brown Kreuzer died Sept. 18 at home. She was 94.    Born in New York City, she graduated from Barnard College where she majored in mathematics and chemistry.    After graduation from college she taught in the New York public school system until moving, with her husband, mother and sister, to Los Angeles in…