Category: archives

  • HoVal advancesto second roundin state tourney

    BOYS TENNIS By: Matt Nalbone    When the state tournament begins in any high school sport, the regular season schedule is always affected in some way.    The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys tennis team was going to play Hightstown last Thursday in a home regular season match, but instead drew the Rams in the first…

  • Mail carrier food drive comes up big

    POCKETS OF NEED: An occasional series focusing on issues of hunger and financial need in South Brunswick. By: Nick D’Amore    Local letter carriers came through for the Welfare Department’s food pantry over the weekend to deliver something other than just the mail.    "We got wonderful things, everything we need," said LouAnne Wolf, director of welfare…

  • ‘Dogtown and Z-Boys’

    This critically acclaimed documentary revisits the glory days when skateboarding went vertical.   [PG-13] By: Elise Nakhnikian    Dogtown and Z-Boys is a documentary, but don’t let that scare you off. The story of a group of incandescent street kids who invented vertical skateboarding in the 1970s, the film is imbued with its subjects’ energy, style and attitude.…

  • Rotary to salute 9-11 heroes

    By: Lea Kahn    Soon after New Jersey rescuers returned from the Sept. 11 World Trade Center disaster, Rotary Clubs in several counties wanted to find a way to honor the heroes.    But an event to honor them never materialized, so the Rotary Clubs of Mercer County decided to hold one of its own. A dinner…

  • Tree guide debuts on Pennington Day

    Fifty-three species that line the borough’s streets are described and located by the guide, which will make its debut on May 18 at Pennington Day. Look for the Shade Tree Commission booth on Main Street.    Take a tour, a self-guided tour, of Pennington’s trees with the help of a new, illustrated "Tree Guide to Pennington"…

  • FORUM: Newark arena

    Should the state aid in building a sports arena in Newark? Should the state aid in building a sports arena in Newark?

  • Zoners strike down church plan

    Several zoning board members said the church proposed too much for the 13.35-acre site. By: Lea Kahn    "We are disappointed, but we trust in God with respect to the future," said the Rev. Matthew Ristuccia after the Zoning Board of Adjustment rejected the Westerly Road Church’s request to develop the historic John Feaster Phillips property…

  • Ashamed afterbias attack

    To the editor    I am writing to lend my support to Scott Lipich. It is a mandate that students should feel safe in schools regardless of color, creed, class or sexual orientation.    By the same token if educators only give lip service to tolerance programs, and their actions and policies have no bite, it is…

  • Betkowski tosses another county gem

    Raiders face Ridge in SCT semifinals at Ballpark By: Rudy Brandl    BRANCHBURG — In Hillsborough High School’s first-round Somerset County Tournament win over Franklin a week ago Saturday, Raider ace Ken Betkowski threw a no-hitter, but the offense didn’t do much damage.    Saturday afternoon in the county semifinals, the Raiders got another outstanding game from…