Category: archives

  • Voters thankedfor support

    To the editor    Please accept my heartfelt thanks to all the Manville voters who supported my candidacy for the Manville Board of Education.    As a lifelong resident of Manville, my love of the community has driven me to serve. My goal has always been to base my decisions on what is best for the children…

  • Vikes enjoy high seeds at GMC tennis tournament

    By: Ken Weingartner    The South Brunswick High boys tennis team enters this weekend’s Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament with three positions seeded among the top three of their respective classes.    Shangril Shah, competing at first singles, earned the No. 2 seed for the Vikings. Shah, a sophomore in his first season with the team, is rated…

  • Lazy Tongue

    Sarah Lee Guthrie, the daughter of Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, will play the Twin Rivers Community Room in East Windsor April 27. By: Susan Van Dongen    February 2000 wasn’t her first time, but it was close to it. Singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Guthrie, the daughter of Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of…

  • Kids to Work Day

    Meet the Packet kids!    About two dozen children whose parents are employees at Packet Publications visited the company headquarters on Witherspoon Street in Princeton Thursday.    The children live in many different towns and have many different hobbies, career ideas and opinions about why they think newspapers are important.    Here are profiles of the children who…

  • Financial Questions

    Parents wait for answers on college aid By: Stacey Gorski    While the time for waiting to hear from college admission offices regarding applications is close to an end, some South Brunswick High School seniors and their parents are still waiting for the final important piece of the puzzle — financial aid.    "I have been doing…

  • It’s all in the timing …for school’s latest play

    Five one-act comedy plays will add up to this year’s spring play at the high school By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    The play — David Ives’ "All in the Timing" — is a set of five completely unrelated comedies, said director Matt Viola.    "The atmosphere will definitely be a mix of ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway?’ and ‘Saturday…

  • Art: Peter Sobel

    Where did my fish go, Kitty? Meow!!

  • Jury convicts former residenton charges of sexual assault

    By:Alec Moore    A former Hillsborough man was found guilty of sexual assault charges Thursday, April 18.    John Randall McLaughlin, 38, formerly of Van Liew Court was found guilty on one count of second degree sexual assault and one count of third degree aggravated criminal sexual contact by a Somerset County jury.    According to Somerset County…

  • Brown dives back into catching

    By: James McKeever    A fish out of water.    That’s sort of the way Fred Brown felt last year playing baseball for South Brunswick High School’s varsity team.    Starting at third base, Brown was out of position. But the didn’t gripe. Brown was happy to help his team any place he could, and third base was…