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  • HHS runners, girls’ teams poised for major county action

    Big weekend for Raider athletes By: Rudy Brandl        Four Hillsborough High teams will compete in major Somerset County action over the next few days. One is seeking to repeat as the county champion, two are hoping to stay alive in their quest for a title and another is looking to find its way back…

  • Volunteer English tutors sought for university program

       The Friends of the International Center at Princeton University need volunteer tutors and host families to work with foreign graduate students, visiting scholars and their spouses on improving their conversational English and making a comfortable adjustment to life in the United States. Currently, there are 1,000 international graduate students and visiting scholars on campus.    The…

  • Route 206 Coalition marks anniversary

    Group is working to reduce truck traffic.    This month marks the first anniversary of the Route 206 Coalition. The group — comprising residents from Princeton, Lawrence and Hopewell — is working to reduce the truck traffic along Route 206 in order to increase safety and improve the quality of life of those who travel the…

  • ‘Punch-Drunk Love’

    Adam Sandler breaks type in an award-winning film from Paul Thomas Anderson.   [R] By: Bob Brown    Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997) arrived to great acclaim. His Magnolia (1999) was then anticipated with excitement, and it was well reviewed for its unusual storytelling. Here is another of Anderson’s distinctive films. With him again are Jon Brion,…

  • Pleasant Valley Vigilant Association to fete 130 years

    Event set Nov. 2 at Pennington Presbyterian Church By Nicholas Tuz, president     Back in 1872, the Pleasant Valley Vigilant Association was formed "for the protection of its members property and for the detection and pursuit, apprehension, arrest and prosecution of thieves, tramps, marauders and other deprecators on persons and property and for the recovery…

  • Allan, Weiss fulfill campaign slogan

    To the editor    Like their literature says, "Qualified – Experienced – Leaders." That’s what describes Senga Allan and Tom Weiss.    I’ve lived in Manville for a long time, and over the last 12 years I’ve seen our town change in ways I never dreamed of. People now come from all over to shop and stop…

  • Revived foundationaims to boost schools

    Group seeks to help local educators with classroom grants By:Sally Goldenberg    Community members seeking to raise supplemental funds for Manville’s public schools have recently resurrected the education foundation in hopes of providing more dollars for the district.    "The budgets aren’t passing," said founding member Theresa Schaefer, referring to the district’s annual proposed education budget, which…

  • Florence football goes down fighting in classic contest

    Flashes lose, 32-24 By:Sean Moylan    Contained within the 2002 Florence Township Memorial High School football team’s game program is a list of 25 "Characteristics of Good Sportsmanship."    Topping the list is "pride" followed by "do your best" and then "winning is not everything."    In this past Saturday’s Homecoming game versus Burlington Township, the Flashes displayed…

  • Surprise debt still loomsover municipal building project

    Bond won’t be paid until 2007 By:Alec Moore    The Township Committee got an unexpected, and unwelcome, surprise Tuesday after it was revealed that a $5.9 million bond ordinance approved Sept. 1, 1992, has not yet been paid off.    The committee had previously believed the bond –– which covered three ordinances approved in 1987, 1988 and…