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  • Softball squad shuts out Ewing

    Softball By: Mike Molaro    If the Hopewell Valley Central High School softball squad continues playing like it did in Monday’s 2-0 home triumph against Ewing, coach Tony Mormile will get the consistency he’s been searching for since the start of the season.    With a 4-4 record (4-3 in the Colonial Valley Conference), the Lady Bulldogs…

  • HHS netmen lose tough one at B-R

    Raiders eye May 1 rematch By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High boys left the Green Knoll tennis facility knowing they had put in a long afternoon of hard work only to come up on the short end of a 4-1 score against their rivals from Bridgewater-Raritan.    While the Raiders put a little dent in B-R’s…

  • ‘The Founding Fish’ is John McPhee’s loving tribute to all things shad

    BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman    According to Buddy Grucela, April 24 is the prime day for catching shad in the Delaware River. Mr. Grucela, author of "The Original Guide to Better Shad Fishing on the Delaware," is, according to John McPhee, the go-to guy for tips on shad. And John McPhee, according to his book,…

  • BACK PORCH: Being a sucker for starch makes a wonderful life

    BACK PORCH by Melissa Morgan: Pump me full on bread! My carbs are back and better than ever. By: Melissa Morgan    Imagine dining on a breakfast that includes a five-egg omelet with gobs of cheese and a side of extra-fatty bacon. For lunch, all the bunless burgers you can eat, and to top it all…

  • Don’t Worry, Be Happy

    Bobby McFerrin and the Trenton Children’s Chorus present a concert based on improvisation and audience interaction. By: Jim Boyle Bobby McFerrin (above) will perform a benefit concert with the Trenton Children’s Chorus at Patriots Theater at the War Memorial May 1. Sue Ellen Page conducts the chorus (below).

  • Seniors urged to file for property tax programs

    By:Alec Moore    Seniors in town may be eligible to freeze their property tax rates and receive reimbursement for future property tax increases through the state’s Seniors Property Tax Reimbursement Program.    The deadline for the program is June 2, however, so seniors who want to enroll in the program should waste no time in applying.    "This…

  • Don’t Worry, Be Happy

    Bobby McFerrin and the Trenton Children’s Chorus present a concert based on improvisation and audience interaction. By: Jim Boyle    Listening to Grammy-winning vocalist Bobby McFerrin create songs and melodies with only his mouth and vocal chords, it’s almost impossible not to believe in the power of music. Watching his face and the sheer joy and…

  • Valley resident gets Friends’ Jack Gleeson Award

       In mid-March, Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space held its annual meeting at the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association’s Buttinger Nature Center.    The Jack Gleeson Award was presented, in absentia, to Dennis Davidson, a Hopewell Valley resident.    The award, which is named for the Friends’ first president, is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated…

  • ‘The Beast’

    Screened as a fund-raiser for Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, William Mastrosimone’s story takes place in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979. By: Elise Nakhnikian    The Beast was released in 1988, but its May 1 showing at MarketFair will be a kind of debut.    An engaging though occasionally stagy war story, The Beast cuts…