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  • SBHS girls golf team posts winning record

    By: Rich Fisher    Dual matches are hard to come by in New Jersey girls golf, but the South Brunswick High team made the most of what it could find.    The dual match portion of the Vikings’ girls golf season was completed on Monday, and SBHS finished on the plus side thanks to a 258-278 victory…

  • School board considers addingalgebra for eighth-graders

    Advanced math programs could lead to offering calculus in high school By:John Patten    Manville students would be able to take more challenging math classes in the future, if a plan to expand the math curriculum next year is approved at next week’s Board of Education meeting. A breath of fresh air?    Discussion of the district’s…

  • Preparedness key for tactical response team

    Lawrence’s SWAT team was started in 1993. By: Lea Kahn    What does the suburban Lawrence Township Police Department have in common with its counterparts in larger cities, including the Trenton Police Department?    Its own SWAT team — or Tactical Response Team, as the Lawrence Township Police Department calls its eight-member special operations team.    The Tactical…

  • Man pleads guilty to North Hanover murders

    Three consecutive life terms recommended for triple homicide By: Eve Collins    A man accused of murdering three people in North Hanover Township early last year pleaded guilty on May 8 to three counts of felony murder, said county prosecutors last week.    Prosecutors have recommended that Brian J. Tykot, 36, of Monroe Township receive three consecutive…

  • DiMuzio sisters raise $5,000 to fight breast cancer

    Duo treks 39 miles in Avon Walk. By John Tredrea    Hopewell Valley Central High School alumnae Katelyn and Megan DiMuzio trekked the equivalent of a marathon and a half on April 26 and 27, raising $5,000 in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.    The walk started and ended at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.…

  • Are humor, love and lightning the keys to long life?

    Jessie Mealey, 103, attends county celebration By:Minx McCloud    Jessie Mealey still remembers a fateful day back in the early 1900s when she and her father, a florist, were almost killed.    She had taken his lunch to him at the cemetery where he was tending the flowers when a sudden stroke of lightning hit his wheelbarrow,…

  • Dispatches: In Iraq, weapons of mass distortion

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: America is coming up empty handed in its search for Saddam’s nukes. By: Hank Kalet    The military task force assigned to seek out Saddam Hussein’s stockpile of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons appears ready to leave Iraq empty-handed.    According to The Washington Post, the 75th Exploitation Task Force will leave Iraq…

  • Michael Koroly Jr.

       MANVILLE — Michael Koroly Jr. died Thursday, May 8, at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.    Born in Freeland, Pa., he resided in Pennsylvania until settling in Manville over 50 years ago.    He served in the United States Marines during World War II.    He was a member of the Thomas J. Kavanaugh Veterans of Foreign War…

  • Settlement sought in Matrix dispute

    Case set to go before a judge May 30. By: Cynthia Koons    WASHINGTON — A lawsuit filed by Upper Freehold residents that seeks to stop plans for the Matrix warehouse park in nearby Washington Township is set to go before a judge later this month if ongoing discussions don’t produce an out-of-court settlement first.    Judge…