Category: archives

  • Problem-solving processworks backwards here

    EDITORIAL: Township Committee’s preference for study after action won’t work for public interest    Last week’s Township Committee resolution handing control of the township’s Web site to the mayor provided another shocking view of the committee’s new approach to governing.    We’re not talking about the fact the committee voted to allow the mayor to have final…

  • Ortman, Gryzeski come back with gems

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        Amy Ortman mowed down 15 straight Roselle batters, including nine by strikeout, in Monday afternoon’s perfect game performance at Manville High.    The powerful senior right-hander maintained her scoreless streak and kept her season ERA at 0.00 with a five-inning masterpiece. Ortman also provided some help with the bat, blasting…

  • King of Instruments

    David Messineo will accompany Princeton Pro Musica in Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem at Princeton University Chapel April 26. Resurrection By: Susan Van Dongen Above, the Mander-Skinner organ at Princeton University Chapel.    In an Oct. 2001 TimeOFF interview, David Messineo, principal organist at the Princeton University Chapel, spoke about the chapel’s renovation, which had put the Mander-Skinner…

  • Virginia Butch

       HILLSBOROUGH — Virginia (Smith) Butch died April 11 in JFK Medical Center, Haven Hospice in Edison. She was 72.    Born in State College, Pa., she lived in Flagtown since 1942.    Mrs. Butch retired from the Hillsborough Board of Education in 1993.    Her husband, Joseph P. Butch, died in 1976; and a brother, Sherman D. Smith,…

  • Dress code needs enforcement

    To the editor    On any given school day, Hillsborough High School’s halls are being littered by improperly dressed students.    Some of the high school students clearly feel "summer wear" is appropriate. Young women are sporting skirts too short, and shirts too low and/or too small. The young men are also wearing inappropriate clothes; their pants…

  • High school student is taking giant strides to help combat CF

    By:Sally Goldenberg    Kyle Figard is an anomaly among high-school students, according to the Cistic Fibrosis Foundation.    Kyle, a 15-year-old at Hillsborough High School, has already raised $8,200 for the foundation’s annual Great Strides walk-a-thon, which will convene on May 18 in Somerset, and hopes to collect more.    "It’s pretty unusual for a 15-year-old," said Robin…

  • They did the time, made the decisions and took the heat

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse     Monday’s special school board meeting — which actually was a reception for the six Valley teachers who have received Governor’s Teacher Recognition Awards — marked the end of a era for those of us who have known and worked with Sally Turner, outgoing board president and school board member.…

  • Resurrection

    Princeton Pro Musica will perform the Duruflé Requiem with accompaniment on Princeton University Chapel’s Mander-Skinner organ. By: Susan Van Dongen    A towering figure in 20th-century French music, Maurice Duruflé was physically just a little guy, standing around 5 feet tall.    On a grand tour of the United States in 1971, Monsieur and Madame Duruflé made…

  • District reopens super search

    Board extends its contract with NJBA. By: Rebecca Tokarz    The school board will continue to use the services of the New Jersey School Boards Association during its search for a new superintendent.    The school board’s top candidate for the position, former Holmdel and Bound Brook Superintendent Leigh Byron, requested April 4 that he no longer…