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  • Kozmic Blues

    Big Brother & the Holding Company keeps alive the memory of Janis Joplin. By: Susan Van Dongen Big Brother & the Holding Company, featuring original members Sam Andrew (center), Peter Albin (left) and David Getz, plays VetRock in Doylestown, Pa., June 7.    Think of Janis Joplin and the image that most likely comes to mind…

  • Editorial: Whitman was an outsider in Bush country

    EDITORIAL: The former governor’s resignation is an indication of the Bush administration’s disregard for the environment.    Christie Whitman must have had an epiphany.    After two-plus years at the helm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the former New Jersey governor must have come to the realization that she could no longer peddle the Bush administration’s…

  • Students prepare ceremony for school’s groundbreaking ceremony

    Essay contest winners, local officials to speak By: Vanessa S. Holt     BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Students who will attend the new Bordentown Regional High School (BRHS), expected to open in 2005, will take part in the groundbreaking ceremony on June 7, reading essays they wrote for the occasion and even putting ceremonial shovels in the…

  • Letter: Golf chairman is great resource

    To the editor:     I just wanted to make sure the South Brunswick community is aware of a great resource we have. For the fifth year, a fund-raiser golf outing for a very good cause, Project Graduation, has been run by Brian Fisher. It is a great amount of planning and work and he oversees…

  • Township Council adopts two private roads

    Point Boulevard and Point Court are accepted as public streets. By: Lea Kahn    Point Boulevard and Point Court, two roads in the Lawrenceville Point age-restricted housing development off Bunker Hill Road, have been accepted as public streets by Township Council.    The council adopted a resolution at its May 20 meeting that adds the two streets…

  • Hillsborough takes state softball opener

    Coach Iaione gets 100th career win By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High softball team has carried its "unfinished business" motto throughout the 2003 season. The Raiders took care of another part of that theme by winning their first state playoff game last week.    Hillsborough, which captured the Somerset County title the previous week to…

  • High-flying event for new stamps

    Postal officials organize local event By:Alec Moore    Hundreds of local residents gathered at the Central Jersey Regional Airport Friday for a celebration honoring the Wright Brothers as part of the U.S. Postal Service’s issuance of the First In Flight commemorative stamp.    The stamp honors the historic achievement of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who in December…

  • Pennington’s ‘soggy’ season ends

    Baseball By: Mike Molaro    It’s probably safe to say that the Pennington School’s baseball coach Jerry Russo never experienced a season like the one that concluded with a 7-6 home triumph over South Hunterdon on May 16.    It’s not so much that the Red Raiders ended with a 6-6 record. It’s the fact that they…

  • Committee won’t review deal with HEMSCorp

    Suggestion to review expenditure turned down By:Alec Moore    A proposal to look into hiring a private ambulance company to replace Hillsborough Emergency Medical Services Corporation (HEMSCorp), was not well received by the Township Committee at Tuesday night’s meeting.    Fire Commissioner Ron Campbell read to the committee his guest column published in the May 15 edition…