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  • A Raider Team For All Seasons

    A salute to this year’s most well-rounded Hillsborough High athletes By: Rudy Brandl A Raider Team For All Seasons Betkowski, Foster, Geigert, Henry, Lunemann, Miller, Molloy, Morrison, Pfeiffer Quick, Wagner, Crawford, Flores, Kloss, Klueber, Spencer, Vaccaro selected Photo by Elane ColemanThese 17 Hillsborough High athletes made an impact in multiple seasons during the 2001-02 school…

  • ‘Minority Report’

    Steven Spielberg creates a dystopia where crimes are solved before they happen.   [PG-13] By: Bob Brown    IN his relatively brief, unhappy life, Philip K. Dick had no knack for turning his fecund imagination into gold, but others sure did. He churned out science-fiction short stories and novels at a feverish pace to stay ahead of the…

  • ‘Sunny’ visits Featherbed Lane

    A black bear raids a bird feeder in the Sourlands. By: Ruth Luse    The Mang family of 93 Featherbed Lane, located in the Sourland Mountains north of Hopewell, experienced "a wonderful bear sighting" on June 19.    The accompanying photo shows the bear, a male — which the family nicknamed "Sunny" for the sunflower seed upon…

  • OBITUARIES, June 28, 2002

    Dr. Daniel P. McGovern Jr., Sara B. Durling, Patricia O. Landmann, Dorothy T. Benson. Dr. Daniel P. McGovern Jr. Physician     MONTGOMERY — Dr. Daniel Paul McGovern Jr. died Wednesday at The Medical Center at Princeton following a long illness. He was 54.    Born in Madison, he was a resident of the Belle Mead section…

  • King of Broadway

    Theater Renaissance man Hugh Fordin talks about producing ‘The Producers’ By: Matt Smith    A day in the life of record company mogul Hugh Fordin rarely includes golf-course board meetings or lunches at fancy restaurants. In fact, Mr. Fordin is lucky if he has the time to stop for his midday meal.    "It’s not an executive…

  • Travel soccer tryouts send wrong message

    Letter to the editor I have been a member of the South Brunswick community for 38 years. I have always believed that South Brunswick’s top priority was to give each child the opportunities it takes to grow into young, independent healthy adults. This commitment to the children of South Brunswick is one of the reasons…

  • For the week of June 27

    Evelyn M. Davison, Angela Weingartner, John J. Hollenback, Morton Preston Jr., Kathleen Walsh, Miriam E. Rehl, George R. Simpson, Helen Michalczyn, Lillian Mae Sexton Evelyn M. Davison    WRIGHTSTOWN — Evelyn M. Davison, 80, died Friday at home.    Born in Morrisville, Pa., she was a New Egypt area resident for 39 years.    She was a homemaker.…

  • Ending a career as a counselor

    SBHS guidance counselor joins husband in retirement By: Nick D’Amore    Two decades of teaching at the South Brunswick High School will come to an end for Bonnie Ruekgauer once the school year ends Friday.    Ms. Ruekgauer first came to SBHS in 1981, when a friend working at the school told her of a job opening…

  • Star-spangled trumpeter performs for president

    Manville man appears at fund-raiser for local congressman. By: Krzysztof Scibiorski        A local amateur trumpeter realized a dream when he played the national anthem in front of President George W. Bush on June 24.    Jim O’Reilly Jr. met the president at a Newark fund-raiser for Republican Congressman Mike Ferguson, who represents the 7th District,…