Category: archives

  • Contest to honor black history

    By: Stacey Gorski    While there are many methods of celebrating Black History Month, several groups in South Brunswick will do it by encouraging student achievement and community celebration.    The Concerned Black Parents and Citizens of South Brunswick in cooperation with the South Brunswick Department of Recreation and Community Affairs and the South Brunswick Arts Commission…

  • Trip to New York good GMC warm-up for South Brunswick track team

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Only a portion of this year’s Greater Middlesex Conference Winter Track and Field Championships had been completed by press time, and both South Brunswick High School squads scored in the field events held at Old Bridge High School on Tuesday evening.    In the boys’ competition, Viking Sean Carner earned a fifth-place…

  • Screen gem

    Local kid makes his movie debut By: Brian Shappell    With an appearance in the new Kevin Spacey movie, "The Shipping News," and television shows such as "Spin City" and "Law and Order," Anthony G. Cipriano has had quite an acting career so far.    Especially considering that he’s 8 years old.    Anthony’s brief appearance in "The…

  • Rhodia chemical plant opens doors to advisory panel

    Tour group comes out pleased with what they learned By: Melissa Morgan    Behind the scenes at the Rhodia chemical plant, small but sophisticated laboratories hold rows of high-tech devices used to perfect products like aspirin, cereal, cake mix and many other everyday household items.    Chemists who work at the plant off Prospect Plains Road in…

  • DISPATCHES

    Meditations on the legacy of MLK Jr. By: Hank Kalet I was watching some of the all-news channels over the weekend, the procession of generals and political insiders parading across the screen talking about Afghanistan, about the Philippines, about the POW camps in Guantanamo Bay. And because of the timing — Martin Luther King Jr.…

  • Lady Bulldogs near full strength

    Girls Basketball By: Matt Nalbone    The season is more than half over and the Hopewell Valley Central High School girls basketball team has yet to play a game with the entire roster.    Someone has been out with an injury in some capacity or another for every game and just now are the Lady Bulldogs relatively…

  • Hopewell girls nab individual crown

    Winter Track By: Steve Feitl    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls winter track team is for real.    Any lingering questions about the Lady Bulldogs were answered this past weekend when they backed up their earlier state relay title with a state individual title as well.    As part of their successful weekend, the Lady Bulldogs…

  • Resident objects to ball field work

    Charges the League has violated its ease agreement with township denied By:Alec Moore    Fresh complaints that the Hillsborough Little League has been violating its agreement with the township surfaced at the Township Committee meeting Tuesday night.    Carl Deretchin of Spring Valley Drive raised concerns to the committee over what he perceives as misuse of the…

  • HomeSharing helps many find shelter

    To the editor    HomeSharing Program of Somerset County will be holding its twelfth annual Phonathon on Feb. 5, 6, 7, 11 and 12 at the Somerset Messenger-Gazette Building in Somerville.    This is the largest fundraising event for the organization, and during these five evenings more than ten percent of HomeSharing’s annual budget is raised. Over…