Category: archives
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Lawrence’s win streak dashed in tournament
BOYS BASKETBALL By: Steve Feitl Every winning streak eventually comes to an end, but unfortunately for the Lawrence Cardinals, theirs reached its conclusion in the finals of the Mount Holly Rotary Tournament in Mount Holly last week. The Lawrence High School boys basketball team’s season-starting four-game win streak was snapped by Cherokee in the championship…
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SBHS falls to Hillsborough in girls holiday tourney final
By: Carolyn M. Harko The South Brunswick High School girls’ basketball team took a roller coaster ride in their Holiday Tournament this year. The Lady Vikings scored a thrilling 51-49 overtime victory over West Windsor-Plainsboro/South in the opening round, but were soundly beaten by Hillsborough 48-26 in the championship game. That gives the Vikings an…
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Elizabeth Kostar
MORRISVILLE, Pa. Elizabeth Kostar, 86, died Sunday, Dec. 30, at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton. Born in Trenton she was a lifelong Morrisville resident. She was a member of Holy Trinity R.C. Church in Morrisville. Wife of the late John W. Kostar, she is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Dolores A.…
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Council ready tocontinue redevelopment
Saturday’s reorganization meeting includes Susan Asher’s swearing-in By:Alec Moore The Manville Borough Council will hold its reorganization meeting for 2002 at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the municipal complex. Most notable at this year’s reorganization meetings will be the investiture of Susan Asher who, along with her Republican running mate and incumbent Borough Councilman Michael Polak,…
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Empty nest … full heart
BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman: Adults of all ages get to connect in a new way. By: "Home for the holidays" has a whole different dynamic in reference to college kids. What parents and kids have looked forward to can become a mess of mixed signals and miscommunication. Or it can be a wonderful time…
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Girl Scout project to bring comfort
Millstone teen starts program called Help Our People Everywhere, or HOPE. By: Scott Morgan MILLSTONE How many Thin Mints does it take to build a refuge? It depends on how high you stack them. Or how many you sell. For 14-year-old Lipica Shah, the progress was in the selling. Seventeen hundred boxes of Thin…
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Friday Night Fun
Trenton business owners try to make their city the place to be with First Friday celebrations. By: Matt Smith In the 1970s and early 1980s, the Old City section of Philadelphia, a thriving waterfront commercial district earlier in the century, housed only empty warehouses and boarded-up buildings. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the…
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Herb Wright
Friends remember a former mayor. By: Nick D’Amore Former Mayor and Township Committeeman Herb Wright died Sunday at the age of 91 at St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick. Described by former colleagues as very interested in what was best for South Brunswick and not in township politics, Mr. Wright, a Democrat, had been…
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Township groups plan for a successful new year
SETTING THE AGENDA: Part 2 of 2 South Brunswick organizations are all looking forward to a prosperous, and happy 2002. Their goals range from increasing the number of activities at the South Brunswick Family YMCA, to introducing people to various religious faiths, from expanding services for the elderly and disabled to completing work on several…
