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  • Cardds enjoy exciting week

    Baseball By: Steve Feitl    It was an exciting several days for the Lawrence High School baseball team.    Over a three-day period, the Cardinals picked up two key wins — one of which occurred during the first round of the Mercer County Tournament —both at the expense of Notre Dame.    On Saturday, the Cardinals sent the…

  • Softball team blanks B-R to earn top seed in SCT

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl Nobody could deny the Hillsborough High softball team the No. 1 seed in the Somerset County Tournament at last week’s seeding meeting. The Raiders (8-2) had just blanked Bridgewater-Raritan, the one remaining threat to their top standing. Having already defeated Watchung Hills, Somerville and everyone else they’ve played in the…

  • Thieves nab paintball gear

    By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    Thieves stole paintball gear and supplies valued at more than $3,200 from a South Main Street business.    At 6:42 a.m. on Sunday, April 28, the police were alerted that several paintball guns were stolen from Mid State Paintball Supply store at 247 So. Main St.    According to Manville Police, the thieves used a…

  • GMC Relays put on hold

    Randal forced to wait in his pursuit of record By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Talk about being all dressed up with no place to go.    All the area track teams were assembled under a very threatening sky at South Brunswick High School this past Tuesday afternoon for the first half of the Greater Middlesex Conference Relay…

  • Defense lifts Redbird softball in MCT

    It was the kind of move that can be lost in a boxscore. It was also the kind of move that prevented a loss in the linescore. By: Kyle Moylan    It was the kind of move that can often be lost in a boxscore. It was also the kind of move that prevented a loss…

  • ‘Price’ is right on the wrestling mat

    13-year-old girl has wrestling in her blood By:Sean Moylan    13-year-old Brandy Price first caught the wrestling bug watching her older cousin Aaron grapple in a match in Pennsylvania five years ago.    Immediately, she knew it was something she wanted to do.    "The first time Brandy asked if she could wrestle, I said, ‘girls don’t do…

  • Nancy Weis

    Kendall Park First Aid Squad loses a ‘family member’ By: Brian Shappell    Friends and family remember Nancy Weis as someone who always had a knack for giving of herself and being a positive, calming influence on those around her.    As the Rev. David Risseeuw of the Six Mile Run Reformed Church in Franklin Park put…

  • ‘The Cat’s Meow’

    Affairs run amok in this film about a celebrity cruise gone bad.   [PG-13] By: Elise Nakhnikian From left: Edward Herrmann, Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley portray real-life celebrities in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow.    Toward the end of The Cat’s Meow, aspiring columnist Louella Parsons (Jennifer Tilly) admits that she’s been "kind of obvious"…

  • REACH programoffers ‘win-win’

    To the editor    The misconceptions to the REACH program in Hillsborough are extremely unfortunate.    There are many programs within our school district for enrichment of talent, learning strengths/difficulties — such as special programs in creative movement, strings ensemble, chess, TP, speech, REACH, English as a second language, pre-school handicapped, just to name a few.    As…