Category: archives

  • Raider booters shocked in CJ 4 semifinals

    Team wastes late lead, loses in OT By: Rudy Brandl        While most seasons end with a loss, the Hillsborough High boys’ soccer team’s campaign shouldn’t have ended so soon.    The Raiders (15-5) undoubtedly will spend a good portion of the off-season wondering how they let last Thursday’s Central Jersey Group 4 semifinal game get…

  • Special meeting Tuesdaywill focus onRoute 31 corridor

    PENNINGTON PLANNING UPDATE By Marianne Hooker    At its Nov. 13 meeting, the Pennington Planning Board granted two variances and site plan approval to the Mercer Mutual Insurance Company, which intends to expand its present building on Route 31.    The board also approved the site plan for an addition that will connect the Pennington United Methodist…

  • Slow start seals Cards’ fate in finale

    The weather for the state consolation football game at Lawrence High School Saturday was cold and miserable. And just minutes into the game, so were the Cardinals. By:Steve Feitl    The weather for the state consolation football game at Lawrence High School Saturday was cold and miserable.    And just minutes into the game, so were the…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY: Beware the addiction of the holidays

    By: Judy Shepps Battle    Holiday Season 2002 has arrived.    Store aisles overflow with Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa items that are already marked down. Mail carriers stagger under the load of festive catalogs and supermarkets offer a free turkey for X amount of groceries purchased.    Most magazines contain advice on how to cope with seasonal stress.…

  • Thanks sent to unknown ‘Samaritans’

    To the editor    On Friday, Nov. 15, my elderly mother was walking alone and fell on Raider Boulevard. A caring motorist stopped his car and took her home.    My family and I would like to thank him personally for his kindness, but he didn’t leave his name and was long gone by the time I…

  • Ordinance would end cluster zoning

    Practice did not bring the benefits officials expected, chiefly because of the type of land developers preserved. By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    The Township Council introduced an ordinance Monday that would eliminate cluster zoning from the land use code.    Cluster zoning allows developers to concentrate houses on a small section of a property if they offer…

  • Scouts learn from veterans about the American flag

    Lessons in patriotism for Brownie Troop 365. By: Rebecca Tokarz    Three generations of Americans stood at attention Friday as color guard members of Brownie Troop 365 assembled a flag stand, unrolled the American flag and placed it on the stand. The group then recited the Pledge of Allegiance.    The gathering was one of a handful…

  • ‘Femme Fatale’

    Fast action, quick-cut editing and views of a scantily clad Rebecca Romijn-Stamos are the high points of this Brian De Palma film.   [R] By: Bob Brown    This film is the triumph of style over substance. If you enjoy a mindless romp, perhaps this would pass the time on a rainy afternoon. But you have to put…

  • DISPATCHES: Strength in numbers in fighting MOM

    By: Hank Kalet    Let’s call this column a call to organize.    The goal: Defeat the proposal to run a high-speed commuter train along a little-used freight track through Dayton and Monmouth Junction to take sshore area commuters to their jobs in New York City.    The time is now to make your voices heard. NJ Transit…