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  • Hopewell girls look to future after 6-18 season

    Girls Basketball By: Matt Nalbone    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls basketball team finished out its season this past week and took aim towards the future at the same time.    Throughout the season, the team suffered through more injuries than any team should, enduring numerous concussions and twisted ankles along the way.    But the…

  • HHS girls regroup to win first state game

    Lady Raiders poised to attack brutal bracket By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team needed two practices and one game to get back on the winning track.    Hillsborough (21-2) regrouped after last Thursday’s heart-breaking fourth consecutive loss in the Somerset County finals and opened the Central Jersey Group 4 playoffs with a 53-35…

  • Messenger-Press earns honors

    The staff of the newspaper claims 15 awards in NJPA 2001 contest. By:    The staff of The Messenger-Press and its two sister papers — the Windsor-Hights Herald and Register-News — won a total of 15 awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s 2001 Better Newspaper Contest, the results of which were announced Monday.    Staff writer…

  • TOWNSHIP BRIEFS

    By:Alec Moore Feds complete mercury project    Kevin Reilly, Director of Environmental Management for the Defense National Stockpile Center, and Jim Farley, DNSC Somerville Depot Manager, reported to the Township Committee that the overpacking of the roughly 2,600 tons of mercury stored at the depot has been completed.    "Our mercury is stored safely, we care about…

  • Council to OK plans for parks

    Baseball for Rowland and family fun at Friendship By: Brian Shappell    A new concept plan for Rowland Park will likely turn the open space parcel into South Brunswick’s baseball home.    Meanwhile, plans for Friendship Park will likely be focused on providing a home for family activities, especially for toddlers.    The Township Council could approve a…

  • Two Redbirds wrestle into regions

    Painchaud finishes second, Keim places third in district tournament action. By: Kyle Moylan    So much for the notion that blondes have more fun. It could be, blondes don’t even get the same respect.    Well, at least that’s the way it seemed in the District 25 Tournament, held this past weekend at Steinert High School.    Nick…

  • SCHOOL BOARD UPDATE

    Toll Gate’s Cheryl Burd to retire after 26 years By: John Tredrea    Among the series of personnel actions unanimously approved by the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Feb. 19 was acceptance of the resignation of Toll Gate Grammar School teacher Cheryl Burd, effective June 30.    Ms. Burd has worked in the district 26 years.…

  • Vikes hockey team gains first state tournament win

    Hockey team rips Dayton after disappointing setback By: Brian Shappell    The South Brunswick High School ice hockey team has seen its extreme peaks and valleys over the past seven days.    Fortunately for Vikings fans, the squad may be peaking at just the right time with a 10-1 win against Dayton Monday that gave South Brunswick…

  • Veteran trio to step aside

    Abschutz, Barcelo, Laurita won’t seek re-election By: Nick D’Amore    The Board of Education will lose 42 years of experience this year when three longtime school board members step down.    School board incumbents Marci Abschutz, Gail Barcelo and Bryan Laurita have all decided they will not seek re-election on April 16, ending decades of services to…