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  • Wrestlers top GL for first team victory

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High wrestling team improved from a surprisingly lopsided loss in the opening match to earn its first victory Saturday afternoon at Governor Livingston.    Drama in the upper weights concluded with a quick and decisive 15-second pin by senior heavyweight Kile Galasso. The Manville co-captain didn’t waste any…

  • SBSH girls bowling team feels good despite loss

    By: Tyler Dey    The South Brunswick High School girls bowling team’s charge to the top of the Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division was derailed Tuesday, perhaps permanently.    But that won’t keep the Vikings from feeling positive about their season.    Woodbridge defeated South Brunswick 3-1 at Carolier Lanes in North Brunswick Tuesday night. The Barrons moved…

  • Obituaries – Jan. 16

    By: Marian C. Normart    Marian C. Normart, 82, died Dec. 27 at the Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Chester, Pa., she was a resident of Hopewell and Norwood, Pa.    She worked in the drafting department at General Electric in Philadelphia, Pa., for 10 years. She loved painting, especially watercolors and oils and enjoyed sewing,…

  • Elaine Cowell: How much a smile can say

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By John Tredrea    It seems so impossible to overstate how nice a person Elaine Cowell was. Once, years ago, I nearly said to her: "You know, you really are one of the nicest people I ever met anywhere. What’s your secret?"    But I didn’t say those words, I guess because doing so seemed…

  • Holt begins third term in Washington

    Hopewell Township resident defeated Republican DeForest "Buster" Soaries in November. By Jennifer Potash    As United State Representative Rush Holt (D-12) began his third term Jan. 7, he told a roomful of supporters how the vista of Capitol Hill still provides a thrill.    "I’m reminded day by day at what must be called hallowed halls or…

  • Council eyeing townhouse ban

    Ordinance would ban townhouses in Weston, Claremont neighborhoods By:Alec Moore    To build or not to build, that was the question mulled by the Borough Council on Monday.    During its meeting, the council introduced a newly amended zoning ordinance that, if approved, will ultimately curb development by prohibiting the construction of townhouses on the two largest…

  • DISPATCHES: Martin Luther King’s radical message

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Dr. King’s words echo during today’s current state of affairs.    "We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being…

  • Board hears recommendation for renewing cleaning contract

    Committee recommends keeping ServiceMaster for another year By:Sally Goldenberg    The Hillsborough Board of Education’s Facilities Committee recommended Monday that the board extend its contract with the district’s maintenance management company, ARAMARK ServiceMaster.    ServiceMaster currently provides two supervisors for the district’s 65-person custodial staff, as well as cleaning and maintenance supplies and equipment. The company came…

  • Four ‘Gold Medal’ writers to speak Thursday

       The four winners of the National Book Awards will visit Princeton on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7.30 p.m. in Nassau Presbyterian Church.    Robert A. Caro, Nancy Farmer, Julia Glass and Ruth Stone will speak on "the writing life" in an event co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, the National Book foundation and Bloomberg LLP.    The…