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  • Historic Black Horse, Crosswicks battles to be re-enacted next week

    Skirmishes will be brought to life June 25 and 26. By: Eve Collins    Mansfield and Chesterfield will join towns throughout the state in celebrating the 225th anniversary of Gen. George Washington’s crucial New Jersey military campaign during the summer of 1778 with re-enactments of the local battles that led up to the crucial Battle of…

  • 2003 taxes stable

    Bordentown Township’s $6.2 million budget won’t raise local purpose tax By: Eve Collins        BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee voted unanimously Monday to adopt the $6.2 million municipal budget that includes no increase in the local purpose tax rate.    The budget is $85,000 higher than last year, township officials have said, but despite the…

  • South Brunswick boys’ lacrosse season one for the books

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The division and county titles may have eluded the grasp of the South Brunswick High School boys’ varsity lacrosse team this year, but the Vikings still had plenty of accomplishments to celebrate at the program’s pot luck dinner last Monday.    "I don’t know if you should determine your success based on…

  • Super season for SBHS girls track team

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    In describing the kind of year the South Brunswick High School girls’ track team had this spring, overused superlatives are simply inadequate.    At the top of the list of accomplishments for the 2003 Lady Vikings is a Greater Middlesex Conference title, won at the county’s individual championship meet. In addition, the…

  • A year of change

    AHS educators reflect on highlights of 2003 school year. By: Cynthia Koons    UPPER FREEHOLD — It was a tumultuous school year.    The nation remembered the anniversary of Sept. 11 and Allentown High School commemorated the event with an assembly featuring witnesses to the terrorist attacks in New York.    The U.S. government waged a war in…

  • SCHOOL BOARD UPDATE

    School personnel actions were approved by Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Monday. By John Tredrea    School personnel actions approved unanimously by Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Monday night include:    • Transfer of health and physical education teacher Laurie Fallon from itinerant at Hopewell Elementary and Stony Brook Elementary to full-time at Timberlane Middle School.…

  • Seniors at risk on snowy days

    To the editor    Have you ever felt threatened driving in icy conditions? On one day this year, over 456 seniors at Hillsborough High School did.    On several days during one week in the winter, seniors of Hillsborough High School had the advantage of coming to school by 10:30 a.m. due to the testing of lower…

  • Peter Kocsi is Vo-Tech valedictorian

    School will also graduate 14 other local students    Valedictorian Peter Kocsi of Hillsborough, an Electrical Construction student, will address the graduates at Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School at the school’s commencement exercises, June 23.    The 7 p.m. ceremony in the auditorium of the school located on North Bridge Street and Vogt Drive in…

  • Central High student writers are lauded by school officials

    Works appeared in "Aspirations," which is published by Mercer County Community College. By John Tredrea    Eight Hopewell Valley Central High School students, who have had short stories and poems published in an area literary journal known for its selectivity, were honored at Monday night’s school board meeting.    The stories and poems appeared in "Aspirations," which…