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  • Cable TV hearing set Monday in township

       The Hopewell Township Committee will hold a hearing Monday on its cable TV agreement with Comcast.    The hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the municipal auditorium, located in the municipal building, Route 546 and Scotch Road.    Hopewell Township’s cable television franchise agreement with Comcast expires on Oct. 30. But Comcast has filed an…

  • Cranbury School baseball team bounces back

    By: Rich Fisher    What a difference one game makes.    After suffering an 8-3 opening-day loss to Allentown on Monday, the Cranbury School baseball team bounced back with a 13-3 win over New Egypt on Wednesday.    "That bats woke up," said coach Frank Silva, whose team had just two hits in its opener. "It was very…

  • Heart of Wisdom

    Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent, reflects on the search for meaning in life. By: Jodi Thompson    Author Anita Diamant considers herself fortunate, yet not for the most apparent reasons. She’s had a successful career as a journalist and has written seven books on contemporary Jewish practice and community.    Her first work of fiction,…

  • Remembering a survivor

    Synagogue mourns its matriarch By: Nick D’Amore    The local Jewish community lost one of its most active members when Suse Rosenstock died April 8 in San Diego at age 70.    Ms. Rosenstock was a Holocaust survivor who devoted her time to teaching about the Holocaust and to being active at Congregation B’nai Tikvah, as well…

  • Laxmen notch first victory

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl The Hillsborough High boys’ lacrosse team completed a rigorous week of action with an 11-4 triumph on the road at Watchung Hills Saturday morning. Hillsborough (1-5), which had been outscored by lopsided margins in home losses vs. Bridgewater-Raritan and Princeton earlier in the week, put together a solid effort to…

  • LHS boys try to catch elite squads

    BOYS TENNIS By: Steve Feitl    With the entire starting lineup from a year ago returning to his lineup, Lawrence High School boys tennis coach Pat Tarrant knew his squad had an opportunity to make a step up in 2002.    With that in mind, he strengthened the Cardinals’ schedule by adding prep teams such as Peddie…

  • Local Jews join thousands at Washington rally

    By: Brian Shappell    South Brunswick did not go unrepresented Monday when hundreds of thousands flocked to the nation’s capital for the country’s largest pro-Israel rally to date.    Despite their exhaustion, many came back with feelings of exhilaration.    Marlene Heller of South Brunswick, Robert Sherman of Monroe, Evelyn Hirsch of Monroe and Karen Kramer, a former…

  • ‘Human Nature’

    Lab technicians attempt to tame a jungle man in this quirky comedy.   [R] By: Bob Brown    Take two clueless men, two women with designs, two lab mice with impeccable table manners, six forks, endless servings of tiny mesclun salad and stir generously. There, you have the basic ingredients of the madcap Human Nature. There isn’t a…

  • Search continues to find property to house homeless

    Washington Committeeman Mozloom working with HomeFront to find local site for the working poor. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Although the Township Committee decided not to allow HomeFront to lease the Robbins House and place a homeless family there, at least one committee member is trying to find another way for the nonprofit organization to…