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  • HoVal places third at county tournament

    Golf By: John E. Powers    Just at the right time — just when the home stretch of its season is about to start — the Hopewell Valley Central High School golf team is playing its best.    The Bulldogs, who are 12-1 in match play, placed an impressive third at this past Monday’s Mercer County Tournament…

  • Police Beat

    May 8 Edition BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP    Luis A. Rodriguez, 27, of Trenton was charged with driving while intoxicated at 2:31 p.m. on April 29.    Officers were traveling south on Route 206 and saw Mr. Rodriguez’s 1998 Hyundai swerving in the left lane while doing 38 mph, police said.    The officers performed a motor vehicle stop and…

  • Littlejohn keeps cool under fire

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The South Brunswick High School girls’ softball team is under a lot of pressure this week.    After Monday’s 4-3 loss to Edison, the Lady Vikings were 6-7-1 with Friday’s deadline to qualify for this year’s state tournament fast approaching. That put South in a squeeze play, having to win two of…

  • Northern Burlington lacrosse moves to the .500 mark

    Team scores win over Maple Shade By: Sean Moylan    The Northern Burlington lacrosse team moved to the .500 mark (7-7) with a 19-2 win over Maple Shade this past Monday. Val Bud and Kristina Patsey scored five goals each, Erika Sensbach four, Nicole Seick two and Meredith Ehrick one.    Patsey scored four goals and Pigott…

  • Coalition for Peace Action plans Day of Unity

       The Coalition for Peace Action will sponsor a day of creativity and presentations from the cultures of South Asia at the Princeton YWCA athletic fields on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.    The day is designed to highlight positivé and creative alternatives through cultural understanding and peace. The Rev. Robert Moore, executive director of the…

  • Mark Zamek helps keep Midland Run event growing

       When several thousand runners take to the hills of north Somerset County in the May 18 Midland Run benefit for the Midland School, Hillsborough resident Mark Zamek will be watching closely.    Mr. Zamek has been the event’s race director since 1997, after working to help organize the run in 1996.    "I have a full-time job…

  • School times shouldn’t change

    Letter to the editor To the editor    As a parent of four Lawrence Township public school students (three at Slackwood and one at LIS), I am against any proposal changing the starting and finishing times of our schools.    The school board has decided to lengthen the school day of the primary schools by 10 minutes,…

  • Local history group hopes to preserve Valley memories

    The society is setting up interviews with local people with ay eye toward preserving memories of Hopewell Valley and how events have influenced people’s lives.    The newly formed Oral History Committee of the Hopewell Valley Historical Society held its first meeting and workshop recently.    Members of the society who had expressed interest in participating in…

  • Red Raider bats come alive

    Softball By: Jim Green    Even though The Pennington School’s softball team was shutout last Thursday in the first round of the Mercer County Tournament against West Windsor-Plainsboro South, Red Raiders coach Dean Waters thought he saw signs that his lineup was about to break out of its season-long slump.    Those signs turned into tangible results…