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  • Traffic accidents increase locally

    Residential development among reasons for rise in rural areas. By: Scott Morgan    If New Jersey is famous for anything, it’s for an abundance of roads.    Aside from two major highways, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway, the state is cut by large strips of roads in such numbers they have lent themselves…

  • Cardinals enter tournament on upswing

    Boys Soccer By: Mike Molaro    It hasn’t been the easiest of seasons for the Lawrence High School boys soccer squad. But it looks like the pendulum is swinging its way now.    After taking just about everything that was thrown at them, the Cardinals (10-5-1 overall, 10-5 in the Colonial Valley Conference) are ready to close…

  • Allentown to forfeit football game

    Injuries force Redbirds to give win to Steinert. By:    Allentown High School Principal Christopher Nagy on Thursday said the varsity football team would forfeit its game Saturday against Steinert.    Mr. Nagy said the team has a roster of 25 players, but is down to 12 who are healthy. It was the recommendation of the school…

  • Superintendent candidate meets parents

    West Amwell Board of Education selects Dr. Todd Fay as finalist By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — Approximately 40 parents turned out for a meet-and-greet session Monday night with the Board of Education’s selection for superintendent, taking full advantage of an opportunity to ask questions and have their concerns addressed before the board makes its…

  • ‘Bowling for Columbine’

    Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes aim at America’s gun culture.   [R] By: Elise Nakhnikian    Despite its title, Bowling for Columbine is about more than the 1999 Colorado high school shootings. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, writer-director Michael Moore said he started out making a movie about gun violence in America after Columbine but broadened his…

  • Gildenberg, Smith are best for town

    To the editor:     Next Tuesday, we will face an important choice when we elect our next mayor and a new council member. While it’s easy to get caught up in the hype and rhetoric that epitomize political campaigns, I ask you to make your selection after careful thought and reflection. I urge you to…

  • Lasting Romance

    Cellist Gerard Le Feuvre’s performance of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme highlights a busy fall for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. By: Matt Smith    As a teen-ager, Gerard Le Feuvre was one of the most acclaimed young cellists in Britain, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and studying with some…

  • DISPATCHES: Seven reasons I didn’t watch the Series

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: What made our managing editor stay away this year?    "The World Series was wonderful because it was wild, insane and totally unpredictable. The only predictable game ended being Game 7. Was it as great as last year’s Series? No. As great as ’75 or ’86? No. Yet it went seven games,…

  • Department seeks to make policing a community event

    Another look into the Citizens Police Academy By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi Far from the hard-boiled, nightstick-swinging stereotype, many of today’s police officers seek to work with, rather than intimidate, members of the community they serve, an officer told students at the South Brunswick civilian police academy.    South Brunswick, like many police departments across the country,…