Category: archives
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EDITORIAL: Bad behavior at sporting events must end
Editorial: Sad but true, rec sports need a conduct code. The South Brunswick Recreation Department is trying to take care of a problem before it becomes a catastrophe. Faced with a rising incidence of bad behavior among parents at youth basketball games particularly aimed at recreation league coaches the department is putting its…
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Plumsted committee makes appointments
TOWN TALK by Ron Dancer The Township Committee has appointed Janice Garcia as our new tax collector, replacing Patricia Ziegler, who retired at the end of last year after 16 years. Ms. Garcia was previously employed as the tax collector for Matawan and deputy tax collector for Englishtown. In other appointments for the new year,…
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HHS boys can’t solve Franklin
Fall to divisional rival for sixth straight time By: Rudy Brandl SOMERSET The last time the Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team won a game at Franklin was at the end of the 1999-2000 season. The Raiders clinched the Delaware Division championship with that emotional triumph. The Raiders were hoping to get back into…
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Bulldogs drop two more
Wrestling By: Mike Molaro As if its lack of depth wasn’t enough of an obstacle, the Hopewell Valley Central High School wrestling squad last week also had to battle sickness as it dropped three matches. With eight wrestlers out of the lineup with illnesses, the Bulldogs (0-8 overall, 0-6 in the Colonial Valley Conference) lost…
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Police Blotter
Lambertville Patrolman Joseph J. Weber Jr., with help from two members of the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad, freed a domestic goose from the icy Delaware River Jan. 23. Police said a passerby told them about the goose shortly after noon. Officer Weber found the goose with both its legs frozen in the ice…
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Editorial: Lock boxes should be available
By: Mae Rhine We support the concept behind Lambertville’s proposed law making it mandatory for all businesses to install outside lock boxes. Having keys available so firemen can get inside quickly could save lives and property. It means businesses would not have to repair the damage from forced entries by firefighters. It also means business…
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West Windsor mayor welcomes Lawrence input
Lawrence officials have concerns about proposal. By: Lea Kahn If Lawrence Township officials had any concerns that their comments on a proposed 6-million-square-foot development in West Windsor Township would fall on deaf ears, that concern can be put to rest. West Windsor Township Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh said last week that he would welcome input from…
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Dawgs need one victory
Boys basketball By: Mike Molaro The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys basketball needs one win to qualify for the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Central Jersey Group II tournament. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs (7-5 overall, 5-4 in the Colonial Valley Conference), they are still looking for that one victory to put them over…
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LBA Highlights
Karen Scheetz The Lambertville Basketball Association finished weeks three and four in its season with each game getting more exciting. A number of close games were played in the past two weeks that went down to the wire. Here is a look at the games played in the last two weeks. Third- and fourth-grade boys…
