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  • Hopewell Township introduces bond ordinances for utilities improvements

    Both ordinances are scheduled for public hearing and adoption at June 5 meeting. By John Tredrea    A $191,000 bond ordinance for improvements to the township’s sewer utility system was introduced by a unanimous vote of the full Hopewell Township Committee May 15.    Also introduced by a unanimous committee vote May 15 was a $19,600 bond…

  • ‘The In-Laws’

    With laudable efforts by Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, this film tries too hard to wed action and sentimental comedy.   [PG-13] By: Bob Brown From left: Maria Ricossa, Ryan Reynolds and Lindsay Sloane share a family moment in The In-Laws.   Think 007 meets The Father of the Bride and you have The In-Laws.    Andrew Fleming, who…

  • Most already capable of critical thinking

    To the editor    Once again Ann and Peter Kindfield have returned to their above-all-it-all perch to teach us how to become more informed — presumably as they are. Thanks, but no thanks for the lesson in critical thinking.    For all their earnestness and good intentions, the bottom line is that the Kindfields simply cannot believe…

  • Hillsborough wins SCT softball crown

    Yard, Murphy star in first title triumph since 1975 By: Rudy Brandl        BRIDGEWATER — Head coach Cheryl Iaione and her Hillsborough High players always believed they had the best softball team in the county this spring, but they knew that nothing short of a Somerset County title would prove that fact. After Saturday night’s…

  • Softballers win three straight games

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High softball team started a new winning streak last week, winning two close games and one blowout to improve to 14-3 entering the stretch run of the season.    Manville was guaranteed at least a share of the Sky Division crown after Tuesday’s victory over St. Mary’s of…

  • Area towns to hold Memorial Day events

    Activities planned in Allentown, Upper Freehold, Millstone and Plumsted. By: Scott Morgan    Yankee pride gets a three-day weekend, and area towns get their chance to celebrate Memorial Day with parades this Monday.    Picking up where they left off last year — and in some cases expanding — local parade committees plan to pull out some…

  • School board hires suspension monitor

    Students will not be sent home for some violations next year By:Sally Goldenberg    Suspended students in Manville High School and the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School will no longer get a day off from school as of September.    The Manville Board of Education approved hiring an in-school suspension monitor for students in grades six through 12…

  • Murphy blanks Somerville in SCT semifinals

    HHS softballers advance to finals again By: Rudy Brandl        BRIDGEWATER — Erin Murphy has been having one of those magical seasons for the Hillsborough High softball team. The senior right-hander is sporting a microscopic ERA, thanks in large part to two perfect games and two marathon extra-inning gems, but she made some of her…

  • Wonder Boys

    Nerd rockers They Might Be Giants invade McCarter Theatre in Princeton for two shows May 24. By: Jillian Kalonick John Flansburgh (left) and John Linnell, better known as They Might Be Giants, play one show for children and another for adults at McCarter Theatre in Princeton May 24.    Before cell phones, or even CDs, fans…