Category: archives

  • Finding Balance

    Woodturner Jill Biros and textile artist Elizabeth Fram have a joint exhibit at CAPS! Gallery in Yardley, Pa. By: Jodi Thompson "Spalted Maple Bowl" by Lower Makefield resident Jill Biros.    Some people might argue that raising children is a form of artistic expression. Parents mold, shape and shade their offspring into (hopefully) happy, productive and…

  • Raider wrestlers favored to repeat as district team champs

    Gewain, Van Cleef, Molloy going for second straight titles By: Rudy Brandl    There are many good reasons for the Hillsborough High wrestling team to be considered a huge favorite at this weekend’s District 18 Championships.    The tournament is being held in Hillsborough’s home field house, the same place the Raiders clinched their first Somerset County…

  • Readers discuss Back Timberlane

    Poor planning To the editor:     The three most recent recreation surveys show that residentsdo not consider more soccer or baseball fields as a top priority of needed recreation facilities. The Township Committee seems to have ignored these studies, and instead has decided to support more athletic fields at Back Timberlane sight.    At a recent…

  • Walter F. Krachun

       MANVILLE — Walter F. Krachun died Feb. 13 at home. He was 72.    Born in Raritan, he had been a resident of Manville for the past 20 years.    Mr. Krachun was a boiler engineer for the American Cyanamid Corporation in Bound Brook for 19 years, retiring in 1994.    He served in the U.S. Navy aboard…

  • FIRST Robotics Teamcould use donations

    This year, fund-raising has become as important to the team as building the robot    Designing and building a soccer ball-shooting, goal-dragging robot in six weeks is hard enough for the 27 members of the HVCHS Robotics Team, but this year the team also has to raise $20,000.    The HVCHS FIRST Robotics Team, along with more…

  • Syncopation in Yiddish

    The Györ National Ballet of Hungary and Budapest Klezmer Band perform Purim at the State Theatre. By: Susan Van Dongen The Budapest Klezmer Band    Mongolian throat-singing. Tibetan trance music. Inuit "ay-yas."    The availability of ethnic music has made the world a global village. It has also revitalized almost forgotten cultures, such as some Yiddish-speaking "It’s…

  • SBHS girls basketball ousted from counties

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    NORTH BRUNSWICK — It was two-and-through for South Brunswick High in this year’s Greater Middlesex Conference Girls Basketball Tournament. The 13th-seeded Vikings had been hoping to pull off an upset at 4th-seeded North Brunswick last Thursday, but the Lady Raiders were the ones to advance on the strength of a 68-57…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of February 21. By: School presentation on Feb. 25 in Plumsted To the editor:    We all take pride in the many accomplishments of our students. Besides showing successful academic achievement, we have seen the results of our children on stage, in their written publications and in our sports programs. A special thanks…

  • Teachers’ stories, Part 2

    BUZZ IN THE HALLS by Pam Koharchik: News and happenings from Allentown High School. By:    Recently, I shared a number of responses with you concerning what has kept Allentown High School teachers motivated and engaged in their field. This week is more of the same.    Barbara Lehman, French teacher, always loved the language, but she…