Category: archives

  • Iaione: Raiders ready to take next step

    HHS SOFTBALL PREVIEW By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High softball team opened the 2003 season with an appropriate motto — unfinished business.    While the Raiders have been climbing the county, conference and state ladders the past few years, they made the biggest jump last spring. Now, they’re prepared to take the next step under veteran…

  • Roebling Legion marks 75th anniversary

    Post 39 will mark the occasion with a banquet April 12. By: Vanessa S. Holt    ROEBLING — Named for Roebling World War I veterans Paul Willits and William Hogan and the first Roebling casualty during World War II, James Tonne, American Legion Post 39 is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and will mark the…

  • Hewitt expects Raiders to make up for lost stars

    HHS BASEBALL PREVIEW By: John E. Powers        Hillsborough High School baseball coach Norm Hewitt knows how deep and talented the Skyland Conference Delaware Division is. He knows North Hunterdon has won four straight divisional titles and that improvement in record might be hard to come by for his Raiders in 2003 since the rest…

  • Friends remember a departed author

    James Breetveld, 78, passes away on Wednesday, March 26. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    Those who knew James Breetveld said they will most remember his compassion and devotion to others.    "Jim was, well, a wonderful guy and I’m not the only one who says so," said Maria Breetveld, Mr. Breetveld’s wife of 52 years.    James P. Breetveld,…

  • Reed earns first win as HoVal coach

    Baseball By: Mike Molaro    When a new coach takes over a program, it’s a lot easier for the players to buy into the philosophy if they start off on the right track.    The Hopewell Valley Central High School baseball squad began the Jim Reed era with a solid 5-2 triumph at Lawrence in its season…

  • Viking tennis team ready to stir things up

    By: Ken Weingartner    As the boys tennis season gets under way, Nancy McDonald wouldn’t be surprised to see things shaken up a bit in the Greater Middlesex Conference’s Red Division.    And her Vikings, she hopes, will be the ones doing the unsettling.    South Brunswick returns all its starters from last year’s 12-6 team that went…

  • Girls track team relying on throwers

    Spring track By: Jim Green    While the Lawrence High School girls spring track team will have more impact runners on its roster than it had in the winter, its strength likely will remain its depth in the throwing events.    Junior shot-putters Cierra Phillips and Devin Picott, the Cardinals’ top performers in the winter, again will…

  • Rally didn’t include veteran’s poem

    To the editor    My father, Richard, comes from a family of six sons and two daughters. He and all five of his brothers served in the military, during times of war and peace. After serving his country in the armed forces, he served his community as a police officer.    Perhaps that is why, when one…

  • ‘Head of State’

    Chris Rock delivers a typically tactless big-screen performance as the nation’s first African-American presidential candidate.   [PG-13] By: Jay Boyar Chris Rock (above with Tamala Jones, below with Bernie Mac) attempts to bring black power to the White House in Head of State, a film that gets laughs while redefining the term "negative campaigning."    Post-9/11, and with…