Category: archives
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Viking football team looks to step it up
Prelewicz takes the reins; seeks success against elite By: Ken Weingartner The South Brunswick High football team proved it can hang with the best squads in the Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division. Now, it’s time for the Vikings to show they can do a little more. First-year coach Mark Prelewicz said the challenge for SB…
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Sting playoff journey falls one game short
Girls peaked in post-season By: Rudy Brandl After winning just two games during the regular season, the Manville Sting softball team certainly peaked in the playoffs. The Sting came within one game of completing a journey from fifth place to a championship in the Hillsborough Senior 16-and-under League, falling to the Immaculata Spartans in…
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Patrick J. Buhse ‘loved life’
Lawrence family remembers son-in-law. By: Steve Feitl Editor’s note: In the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, West Long Drive residents Daniel and Elaine Doherty contacted The Lawrence Ledger in hopes of finding information about their son-in-law Patrick J. Buhse, who worked on the 105th floor of 1 World Trade Center. Today, the…
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Inner Visions
Pianist Marcantonio Barone, violinist David Kim and the Wister String Quartet open the 26th season for the Lower Makefield Society for the Performing Arts. By: Daniel Shearer The Wister String Quartet (from left): Lloyd Smithy, Nancy Bean, Pamela Fay and Davyd Booth. If his life hadn’t been cut short by a cycling accident, French composer…
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Lawrence prepares for opener
Football By: Jim Green With several changes to its offensive personnel, the Lawrence High School football team might be forced to rely on its defense at the outset of the 2003 season. Cardinals coach Rob Radice is fine with that. "I think our defense is playing extremely well," he said. "It’s a testament to our…
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For the Sept. 11 issue
Jason Mellor, Ethel Lauer, James Staskiewicz-Nabinger, Frank M. Milligan. Jason Mellor BORDENTOWN TOWNSHP Jason Raymond Mellor, 21, of Bordentown Township died Aug. 29 at Princess Margaret Hospital, Nassau, the Bahamas. He was born in Trenton and lived in Bordentown all of his life. He was a graduate of Bordentown Regional High School Class of…
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SBHS gymnastics has strong freshmen and talented veterans
By: Rich Fisher There are a ton of new faces on the South Brunswick High gymnastics team this year, and the good news is that none of them belong to the coaches. For the first time in four years, the Viking gymnasts have a coaching staff returning intact. Michelle Buccellato is back for her second…
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Police Beat
From the Sept. 11 edition of the Register-News BORDENTOWN CITY Tracy Simpson, 39, of Fieldsboro, was charged with drunken driving at 1 a.m. Aug. 30, police said. Police said Ms. Simpson was backing up in her car in the parking lot of the QuikChek on Route 130 and struck a police vehicle, causing minor damage…
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Fourth-graders pass new required test
High marks received on state’s Assessment of Skills and Knowledge By:Beth Kressel Manville fourth-graders exceeded the minimum state standards on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge, the state-mandated test given to all fourth-graders, based on data received Aug. 27. In the language arts portion of the exam, 76.5 percent of all Manville fourth-graders…
