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  • ‘We Were Soldiers’

    Braveheart director Randall Wallace delivers a gruesome Vietnam War story.   [R] By: Kam Williams    I suppose that in these flag-waving days, with the whole country swept up by the self-righteous vengeance being taken out on Afghanistan, one ought to expect that Hollywood would hype patently patriotic pabulum like We Were Soldiers. But does it also have…

  • Pennington Republicans seek candidates

    For council and county committee    The Pennington Borough Republican Committee seeks two candidates for Pennington Borough Council to run in the June 4 primary and the general election to be held Nov. 5.    The GOP Committee also seeks candidates for Pennington Borough Republican County Committee. Pennington has three election districts and each district must have…

  • Mustangs ended on long losing streak

    O’Hea looks to improve next winter By: Shawn Tyrrell    The Manville High boys’ basketball team’s season came to an abrupt end with a crushing 83-36 loss to St. Mary’s in a game that was rescheduled because of the opponent’s conflict with Union County Tournament play.    Manville’s 13th consecutive loss put an exclamation point on a…

  • The simple bare necessities of life

    New life skills program teaches practical lessons By: Stacey Gorski    It is her recess time, but Neha Patil, a fifth-grader at Upper Elementary School, works with a student who is in a wheelchair. She is helping with the most recent gardening club lesson: planting herbs.    "Let me take your hand," she said. "We have to…

  • Foxmoor man gets 12 years for attack

    Victim’s father gives detailed account of family’s struggle since the October 2000 incident. By: Mark Moffa    TRENTON — A father, stricken with grief over his daughter’s stabbing 17 months ago, last week detailed the suffering he and his family have endured in an attempt to convince a judge to give his daughter’s assailant the most…

  • For the week of March 7

    Rose Ference Lewallen, Thomas Chiusano, Mario DiPierro, Irene D. Emiliani, Monica Klimaszewski, John E. Poksay, Sally Gottschalk, Frances M. Gilliland. By: Rose Ference Lewallen    HAMILTON — Rose Udijohn Ference Lewallen, 80, died Monday, March 4, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She had been…

  • Cuts needed despiteaid restoration

    $600,000 must be cut to avoid property tax increase this year By:Alec Moore    After a meeting with Mayor Angelo Corradino and Bound Brook officials in Bound Brook Friday, Gov. James E. McGreevey decided to release the $1.3 million in state aid that was promised to the borough last year.    "He had a change of heart…

  • Friendship

    To the editor    The Oxford American Dictionary defines "friend" as "a person with whom one is in terms of affection and respect." Nowhere in this definition does it indicate people will be on these terms forever. Yet somehow people are being misled into thinking once they forge a bond with another human being, that friendship…

  • Local actors finish up ‘Peter Pan’

    By: Nick D’Amore    Several district students just wrapped up three weeks of performing "Peter Pan" with the New Jersey Repertory Theater of North Brunswick.    Among the students performing in the group’s winter show were six from Crossroads School, who participate in the theater group outside of school.    "You get to meet other people," said Chelsea…