Category: archives

  • Carjack suspects sought

    Pair foiled by inability to operate manual transmission By:Alec Moore    Police are searching for two men who assaulted and robbed a Hillsborough man at gunpoint in his driveway early Friday during a carjacking that failed because the thieves didn’t know how to drive a stick shift.    According to police, a Mountain View Road man was…

  • That’s right, they bad!

    SBAA 12-year-old softballers win Pennington ‘Bad Girls Classic’ By:    The South Brunswick Athletic Association 12-year-old All-Star softball team was the baddest of the bad, as the Vikings recently won the Hopewell Valley "Bad Girls Classic" tournament in Pennington.    After a disappointing 10-7 loss to the NJ X-Treme in a first-round game, the Vikings responded by…

  • Man battles pain to walk for cancer

    Vito Ruggeiro participated in the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon, a fundraiser gaining money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society By: Nick D’Amore    It hadn’t been an easy road to Alaska for Vito Ruggiero, but then again it hadn’t been easy for his brother Jack and the thousands of other cancer patients for whom Vito Ruggiero…

  • DISPATCHES: School vouchers not a civil rights issue

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: The South Brunswick Post managing editor shares his opinion on school vouchers    President George Bush wants us to believe that giving public school parents vouchers so that they can send their kids to private schools is a civil rights issue.    He wants us to believe the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision…

  • Farmers prepare for drought

    Local farmers worry about lack of rain By: Rebecca Tokarz    While local farmers are producing crops this year, even with lower-than-normal rainfall, they remain concerned about what could happen during the rest of the summer.    "We are in good shape when you look at crops even with the heat stress," said Bill Hlubik, agricultural and…

  • Eighth-graders still enjoyed dance

    To the editor     I am writing what I hope will be last letter your paper will print concerning the A.S.I.S. Graduation Dance.    I’m reply to the biweekly letter writing campaign of Terri and John Williams concerning an incident that occurred at the beginning of the dance.    Both the Williams’, who keep telling everyone they…

  • Lifeguards save camper, 4, from drowning

    Joshua Linda,4,nearly drowns while at camp By: Brian Shappell    Joshua Linda’s appearance at the Mill Road Day Camp on Wednesday was a truly exciting one for the campers and the staff after the 4-year-old nearly drowned in the pool at the site two days earlier.    Adam Weiss, a 20-year-old lifeguard at the camp, pulled Joshua…

  • Fire destroys Route 1 hotel

    Police investigate blaze at under-construction facility By: Brian Shappell and Rebecca Tokarz    South Brunswick police are investigating a fire that leveled a new, 110-room hotel that was slated to open by the winter.    Police are still unsure whether foul play was involved in the blaze.    At 12:10 a.m. Wednesday, fire engulfed the under-construction Hampton Inn…

  • Hands Across Hopewell Valley sets July 30 9-11 meeting

    To observe the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the group has confirmed plans for two area events    Hands Across Hopewell Valley will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, in the second floor conference room of the Hopewell Valley Regional School District Administration Building, 425 S. Main St., Pennington.    To observe the anniversary of Sept.…