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  • School tax rate could jump 7 cents

    The school district’s figures on the tax impact of the proposed $37.2 million bond referendum show that the average homeowner would pay $112 each year from 2006 through 2023. By: Lea Kahn    If township voters approve a proposed $37.2 million bond referendum on Dec. 10, the average homeowner would see an increase in school taxes…

  • Girls’ tennis team ousted in second round of states

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High girls’ tennis team knew it would be difficult to advance past Watchung Hills in the Central Jersey Group 4 playoffs.    The Raiders are familiar with the Warriors, who won both regular season meetings between the schools in addition to winning the Somerset County Tournament team title…

  • Lawrence outclasses Allentown, 44-7

    Football By: Steve Feitl    The Lawrence Cardinal football team was bound to walk out of Allentown on Saturday looking like winners.    While the Red Birds self-destructed under a rash of penalties due to poor sportsmanship and illegal hits, the Cardinals remained incredibly poised, not falling into the retaliation trap.    Instead, Lawrence just took it out…

  • Color and Balance

    Painter Alan Goldstein hones an eye for kinetic potential. By: Amy Brummer    The form of a child reaching upward seems to bleed through the paint. His image is a shadow painting in the stairwell, a beige, wingless cherub dancing against a warm white background. The boy and his mother were tenants in this house in…

  • Grad ceremony moves to TCNJ

    As graduation population increases, larger facility is needed By: Nick D’Amore    South Brunswick High School’s graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2003 will be held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing Township in June.    With the graduating population steadily increasing each year, the graduates and their families cannot all fit inside the high…

  • Sunnymead principal receives recognition

    U.S. Secretary of Education presents prestigious award to Linda Gross By:Sally Goldenberg    WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Elementary School Principals awarded Sunnymead Principal Linda Gross with New Jersey’s top elementary school honor last week. Ms. Gross won the 2002 National Distinguished Principal for the state.    Ms. Gross joined 62 other elementary and middle…

  • Board hears results of recent state tests

    By:Sally Goldenberg    Reactions ranged from applause to frowns when Manville’s four school principals presented last year’s standardized test scores and this year’s goals at Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting.    Eighth-grade students at the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School did not meet the school’s goal in math on the state’s Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment (GEPA) last…

  • Manville girls closing in on Sky Division title

    Cortina looks to add banner to gymnasium By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High girls’ soccer team is on the verge of achieving something special.    Fourth-year head coach Nestor Cortina has been around long enough to realize that no MHS team has added a banner to the gymnasium in quite a while. His girls are…

  • Group to save villages moving forward

    Seeks to provide protection from development pressures. By: Ken Weingartner    ALLENTOWN — Work to save "vanishing villages" is progressing, according to organizers of a local preservation group.    The group — made up of representatives from more than a dozen villages, including Allentown, Cranbury, Windsor, Imlaystown and Crosswicks — met recently to move forward with efforts…