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  • Rams eigth, Moreno third at districts

    WRESTLING: Seeded fourth in the 152-pound class, Oscar Moreno advanced to the Regionals in the state tournament. By: Neil Hay    With only one wrestler advancing to Regions, coach Mike Russo was right on the money when he said, "It was not as good as it could have been."    Russo, the Hightstown wrestling coach, was referring…

  • D&R Greenway to move to new park

    A $2.5 million plan to renovate barn in Greenway Meadows Park. By: David Campbell    The Delaware & Raritan Greenway has plans to move its offices to the 53-acre Greenway Meadows Park off Rosedale Road.    "We are excited about the opportunity to create a place in central New Jersey where people can come together to focus…

  • One-two-three, one-two…

    With motivation, practice and a good instructor, even the least-coordinated can learn to waltz. By: Jim Boyle    We knew what we didn’t want to do. My fiancée, Kathleen, and I were beginning to make plans for our wedding. When the topic of our first dance came up, we immediately agreed that we didn’t want to…

  • Lyle ‘Jay’ Joseph Hopler Jr.

       CRANBURY — Lyle "Jay" Joseph Hopler Jr., 70, of Hightstown died Tuesday at the Elms of Cranbury.    Born in Newark, he lived in West Caldwell for 47 years before moving to Hightstown one year ago.    He was a banker and manager for Horizon Bank, West Caldwell, for 17 years before retiring in 1988.    He was…

  • Silver Years

    The Langhorne-based ‘Photo Review’ hosts a retrospective exhibit in Philadelphia. By: Jodi Thompson    Certainly Alfred Stieglitz, noted for his promotion of photography as a fine art, did his part with his influential journal Camera Work. For 14 years, the publication critiqued and trumpeted photographers and their product. Yet it ceased publication in 1917, and subsequent…

  • Monmouth Regional ends Rams’ season

    BOYS BASKETBALL: Hightstown played its slow game in the first half, but Monmouth’s quicker game prevailed in the second half to the tune of a 51-48 state playoff win. By: Kyle Moylan    Even when things didn’t go its way, Hightstown wouldn’t go away in Thursday night’s Central Jersey Group III playoff game at Monmouth Regional.…

  • Tigers dream falls one meet short

    Cherry Hill East defeats Princeton for NJSIAA Group B swimming crown By: Bob Nuse    EWING — Now the Princeton High boys’ swim team knows what the opposition felt like all season long.    In winning their first 14 meets of the season, only once did the Little Tigers score less than 100 points. The Princeton buzzsaw…

  • Don’t call NATO irrelevant, says former ambassador

    The war on terrorism needs NATO, speaker says. By: Jeff Milgram    It was Mark Twain who said, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated," and the same can be said about NATO, the Clinton administration’s ambassador to the military alliance made clear Wednesday at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.…

  • North hockey alive in state tourney

    Knights knock off Mendham, 3-1, behind Boyle’s goals By: Justin Feil    John Boyle hasn’t thought about the end of his high school ice hockey career. Frankly, he doesn’t want to think about it. None of his West Windsor-Plainsboro High North classmates have to worry about that either after the senior scored twice in the Knights’…