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  • Raiders earn another hoop date with Bridgewater

    Team starts winning at right time By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High boys picked the perfect time to start playing good basketball again.    Mired in a five-game slump that included some internal adversity, the Raiders regrouped and found the winning touch as Somerset County Tournament action began.    After halting their five-game losing streak with a…

  • A place for all

    Allentown preschool accepts students regardless of any special needs. By: Mark Moffa    ALLENTOWN — Upper Freehold resident Jennifer DeMauro knows what it is like to raise a child with special needs. Her daughter, 3-year-old Alaina, has Down syndrome.    So who better than Ms. DeMauro to help run a preschool designed to accept all children, regardless…

  • Making History

    The Lawrence Historical Society has sworn in its youngest Board of Trustees member. By: Lea Kahn    Ask Caryn Goldenberg to name her favorite school subject and she is quick to say history.    The 15-year-old never thought that she would make history — as the youngest member to serve on the Lawrence Historical Society’s board of…

  • Commissioners, budgets on ballot

    By: Brian Shappell    Township residents in three fire districts will have a chance to vote on tax rates and several open Board of Commissioners positions in South Brunswick’s annual fire district elections Saturday.    In District 1 and District 3, representing Kendall Park and Kingston respectively, voters will have a chance to back budgets that include…

  • Nancy DiLallo

       MANVILLE — Nancy DiLallo died Friday, Feb. 8, in Somerset Medical Center. She was 71.    Mrs. Dilallo worked at Medtech Plastics for 14 years, retiring as supervisor.    She was predeceased by a daughter, Louise DiLallo; and three brothers, Peter, Anthony and Joseph DiRito.    Survivors include her husband, Alexander DiLallo; three sons, Anthony of Manville, Alexander…

  • Presenting a modest budget proposal

    TANGENTS By: John Saccenti    Dealing with numbers has never been my strong point. It’s something I’ve always had to work hard at if I wanted to get it right.    Nevertheless, I don’t remember ever having bounced a check, or a time when I didn’t have enough money to pay bills, buy food and have a…

  • NBC boys’ bowling advances to state finals

    NBC advances to finals By:Sean Moylan    Billy Ferenc has had some good moments for the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity bowling team this year. But nothing has even come close to approaching what he did in Saturday’s NJSIAA Sectional Tournament held at the Maple Bowl.    Ferenc rolled a career best 696 series,…

  • Mock trial team’s winning streak ends

    By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence High School Mock Trial Team’s nine-year grip on the Mercer County mock trial championship was broken last week by another team of student attorneys from Steinert High School in Hamilton Township.    The Steinert team was judged to be the best in Mercer County at the annual county finals competition to…

  • ‘Die is cast’ for school plan

    The Redistricting Committee has recommended establishing a grades 5-6 intermediate school at Auten Road, and a K-4 enrollment at the six elementary schools. By: Krzysztof Scibiorski    The intermediate school plan can only be "tweaked," not seriously altered, district Superintendent Robert Gulick told parents at a Board of Education meeting Monday.    "Now the die is cast;…