Category: archives
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HHS hoop teams set for SCT
Raiders host quarterfinal doubleheader Monday night By: Rudy Brandl Hillsborough High’s basketball teams will have to work hard to win Somerset County titles this month. Both HHS squads were seeded second behind rival teams from Bridgewater-Raritan, which creates the potential for a very difficult game in the semifinals. The top-seeded schools will have much easier…
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Savino powers Cardinals at county meet
Wrestling By: Mike Molaro Lawrence High School’s Mark Savino captured the 125-pound championship at last weekend’s Mercer County Wrestling Tournament at Trenton High School in a dominating manner. First round and quarterfinal matches were last Friday with the semifinals and finals last Saturday. The Cardinal sophomore, seeded first in his weight class, earned a first-round…
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Polish flavorsgaining in favor
Diners passing by larger establishments to visit Manville’s Polish restaurant By:Krzysztof Scibiorski When George and Elaine Molchan of Phillipsburg wanted to host a dinner with their friends Roseann and John Cullinan of Belle Mead they thought about all of the different choices they had, then headed to Manville. Turning their backs on the…
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Less miserable with shopping options
FROM ROOSEVELT by Linda Schuster: Views and observations from Roosevelt Borough. By: What a relief to finally have more stores in East Windsor. For a long time, anything resembling a department store was not to be found nearby for Rooseveltians. Our choices were either Wal-Mart and the Big K in Lawrence, the Quaker Bridge Mall…
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Savino backs up top ranking at county meet
LHS sophomore captures 125-pouind county title By: Mike Molaro Winning a county wrestling championship is quite an accomplishment. Doing it in the manner that Mark Savino demonstrated at last weekend’s Mercer County Wrestling Tournament at Trenton High School is something more. The Lawrence High School sophomore captured the 125-pound individual title and showed those in…
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Pennington Council must decidefuture of borough’s trash collection
Mayor Jim Loper, Councilwoman Liz Muoio and other council members stressed they would like as much input from borough residents and merchants as possible on the issue of trash privatization By: John Tredrea Pennington will have to make its mind up soon on whether it wants to privatize trash collection, which has been done by…
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Don’t the police haveenough now to keep them busy?
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By: Ruth Luse Commuting to and from work gives me plenty of time to listen to the radio. Much of what I hear goes in "one ear and out the other." But over the past few days, I have heard considerable comment about Assembly Bill 232, which "imposes penalty for leaving a child…
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Letters to the editor
For the week of February 7. By: Government spending was out of control To the editor: The editorial piece "Budget crisis trickles down to local level" takes unfair and cheap shots at both Gov. McGreevey and former President Ronald Reagan. I didn’t vote for McGreevey but I find myself having to defend him. In the…
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Writers Among Us
Nancy Hasty’s solo play Florida Girls is a journey through her childhood. She plays more than a dozen characters, all based on real people. The play is part of the Passage Theatre’s 2nd Annual Solo Flights Festival. By: Susan Van Dongen Florida Girls, by Nancy Hasty (above), is a two-hour, multi-character trek through the playwright’s…
