Category: archives
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Looking back on a successful career
John Longo retires after a 20-plus year run in the South Brunswick school district. By: Rebecca Tokarz After 20-plus winters of being on snow-covered roadways as early as 2 a.m. to help school officials decide if it’s safe to have school that day, John Longo is ready to hang up his Nextel communicator and relax.…
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Caution: geese crossing
Hillsborough gets permission to post signs. By:Alec Moore The township is taking a proactive stance to alert drivers that deer are not the only animals that often find themselves in harms way while trying to cross major roadways in Hillsborough. Over the past two years, 10 geese nine in 2001 and one in last…
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Unleashing Doom
Princeton author David Kushner’s new book analyzes the events leading up to and after the release of the popular and violent video game Doom. By: Jim Boyle Princeton resident David Kushner will sign copies of his book, Masters of Doom, June 5 at Barnes & Noble in West Windsor. You’re all alone. Trapped in a…
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Golf squad finishes strong
Golf By: John E. Powers The miserable weather that plagued New Jersey this spring could have undone the Hopewell Valley Central High School golf team. But the Bulldogs, led by coach Skip Johnson, never lost focus through the rain, heavy winds and cold and soggy course conditions. Hopewell Valley finished its season with a 19-2…
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May 29, 5:36 p.m.: The Chicks stand up in Dixie
Sold-out shows and asupportive public mark tour. By: Hank Kalet Here’s a review in Rock and Rap Confidential of the Dixie Chicks current tour and commentary on the nonsense that engulged the band after lead singer Natalie Maines spoke her mind about the Bush administration. I’m not a fan of their music, but I’ve become…
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Softball team gets no-hit in sectional quarterfinals
Softball By: Jim Green Lawrence High School softball coach Pete Cino could only watch as Hamilton ace Melissa Hodge mowed his team down for the second time this season. Hodge, who hurled a no-hitter in a regular-season meeting with the Cardinals on April 28, held Lawrence hitless again last Thursday. Only this time, the Cardinals…
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Search for new Hopewell Valley schools superintendent is in high gear
The district has received 37 applications, 24 of them from New Jersey, for the superintendent’s job. By John Tredrea With Hopewell Valley schools Superintendent Robert Sopko set to retire Aug. 1, the school board is working intensely on an effort to hire someone to replace him before the 2003-2004 school year begins. Leading the way…
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Manville levels trails made for bike riders
Riders say borough broke promise. By:Alec Moore A Branchburg man who spearheaded efforts to save Manville’s BMX dirt bike trails says he was deceived by Mayor Angelo Corradino, but the mayor says the ramps and obstacles were too unsafe to stay. Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Collins, who in late 2001 led a group of local youths protesting…
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Frances Wyzinski
HILLSBOROUGH Frances "Mickey" (Bradley) Wyzinski died Thursday, May 24, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 84. Born in Manville, she was a lifelong resident of the borough until moving to Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough in 1996. Mrs. Wyzinski was a World War II veteran of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps in the…
