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  • ‘The Hulk’

    Director Ang Lee weaves deep emotional issues with some of the most exciting action sequences of the year.   [PG-13] By: Jim Boyle    The third Marvel comic book adaptation of 2003 turns out to be the most surprising.    Nobody knew what to expect when Ang Lee announced he was going to direct The Hulk. Here he was,…

  • Next generation has the world at its fingertips

    EDITORIAL: Current events and technology may be helping make this class the best prepared ever    As the diplomas are handed out at Hillsborough High School’s commencement exercises tonight, the graduating class will be heading out into a new world.    But this year’s class is different from the previous classes — having come of age during…

  • Japanese AFS exchange student spends year at HoVal

    Megumi Segawa wasn’t sure she liked being here, at first.    Last August, when then 17-year-old Megumi Segawa arrived at the home of Pennington residents, James and Connie Camner, she knew little English and nothing about life as an American high school student. But recently, at the Hopewell Valley Central High School Senior Prom and Post…

  • Louis Vagi

       MANVILLE — Louis Vagi died Saturday, June 14, at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 86.    Born in Passaic, he settled in Manville 65 years ago.    Mr. Vagi was millwright with John’s Manville Corporation in Manville. He later started Vagi Fuel Oil, a heating & plumbing business, and finally finished his career as…

  • New firm takes over Rt. 1 mall

    New ownership may spark businesses. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    Merchants hope new ownership will be a shot in the arm for the South Brunswick Square Mall.    The Route 1 shopping center changed hands from SBS Acquisitions Associates of New York City to WP Brunswick Associates of Wynnewood, Pa., according to a June 10 letter the new…

  • The brilliance of Mark Salzman

    BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman    The school year is almost over and my "Annes" are moving on. Before they go, we look at a remarkable writer and multi-talented man as we examine the world and work of Mark Salzman.     Mark Salzman appears to be just another blue-eyed American, but is much more culturally diverse…

  • ‘Respiro’

    An island in the Mediterranean is the setting for this beautifully filmed story about the untamed wilderness of the human spirit.   [PG-13] By: Bob Brown    This dreamy film looks like a moving picture- postcard, but its message is hardly, "Wish you were here." Although this is director/screenwriter Emanuele Crialese’s second feature film, it is the first…

  • Phillips threw herself into LHS record books

    Female Athlete of the Spring By: John E. Powers    Lawrence High School junior shot putter Cierra Phillips has arrived. Now Cardinals’ head coach Gary Dura is eager to see where she goes next.    This year, Phillips became a Mercer County star, dominating her Colonial Valley Conference opponents and becoming the county champion. Phillips, who was…

  • Cola contract

    District finds new revenue with soda vendor By:G. Natasha Zoe    A new contract for soda in Hillsborough schools could add as much as $50,000 to the district’s coffers each year, but some school staff members say the deal isn’t as sweet as it sounds.    The Hillsborough Board of Education on Monday approved a new five-year…