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  • MHS girls look to get healthy after SCT loss

    Team looks ahead to state playoffs By: John E. Powers        When the Manville High School girls’ basketball team began its 2002-03 season, optimism was aplenty because the team had a wealth of experience back on the floor. What first-year head coach Ryan Shapiro couldn’t have predicted was the wealth of injury and illness that…

  • Snow heightens flooding fears

    Manville residents urged to stay tuned and be prepared should melting snow cause flooding. By:Sally Goldenberg Staff photos by John Patten Joe Papiez gets a hand plowing from his son Brian as they work in front of JZ’s Haircutters on Camplain Road, Tuesday night. Storm’s costs mounting    Manville residents felt the immediate effects of one…

  • Throwing Caution to the Wind

    Terri Hendrix’s literate, off-kilter narratives, delivered with a voice that is equal parts playful, intimate and sweetly fragile, has won over audiences throughout the country. By: Matt Smith    Terri Hendrix is spending the morning of her 35th birthday sick at home. The singer-songwriter, who lives in San Marcos, Texas, is resting up for two weekend…

  • Higher Ground

    The Blind Boys of Alabama bring the gospel sound to McCarter Theatre. By: Susan Van Dongen    Life, like a bottle of fine wine, often improves with age.    Hanging around this world for 72 years has certainly had its advantages for Clarence Fountain, one of the founding members of the legendary gospel group, the Blind Boys…

  • Pennington girls look to go deep into Prep B tournament

    Girls basketball By: Mike Molaro    The monster snowstorm that blanketed our area earlier this week played havoc with local scholastic schedules, postponing many games and canceling others.    Caught in the middle of the weather disruptions was the Pennington School girls basketball squad, which had its scheduled Prep B state tournament quarterfinal match-up against Stuart Country…

  • Snowbound and snow-blind: the Blizzard of 2003 in Hopewell Valley

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK tells what writer experienced while touring the Pennington area during Monday’s blizzard. By John Tredrea    On Monday morning, seagulls were circling over the Pennington Quality Market, as the west wind swirled snowflakes that looked like pingpong balls. The big white birds’ cranky flight-patterns seemed to reveal the mind-set of a refugee: tired, hungry,…

  • Hopewell Valley voters approve three fire budgets

    In Hopewell Township, incumbent William Walker and John Holcombe were elected to three-year terms on the Hopewell Township Board of Fire Commissioners, defeating Larry Omland and Tim Lang. By John Tredrea    Budgets for all three Hopewell Valley fire districts were approved Saturday, when fire district elections were held statewide.    The tax rate in all three…

  • Hopewell bounces back against Ewing

    Ice hockey By: Jim Green    The Hopewell Valley Central High School ice hockey team found the perfect remedy for the sting of losing its first-round game in the Mercer County Tournament: a date with hapless Ewing.    The Bulldogs rebounded from their 2-1 overtime loss to West Windsor-Plainsboro South in the county tournament by thrashing Ewing…

  • Cards’ winning streak is snapped

    Boys basketball By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School boys basketball team last week fell two points short of its first three-game winning streak of the season.    The Cardinals, who were coming off back-to-back wins over Nottingham and North Hunterdon, lost at Colonial Valley Conference Colonial Division rival Steinert 48-46 in overtime Saturday. It was…