Category: archives
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Lady Raiders outscore mistakes in opener
Geigert leads shooting spree By: Rudy Brandl It didn’t take long for the Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team to prove head coach Jim Reese’s pre-season claim that this year’s squad was different. The Lady Raiders also showed they could find different ways to be successful in last Friday night’s season opener against North Hunterdon. The…
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‘Tis the seasonto help restore troubled hearts
EDITORIAL What is Christmas? This year, it is a time when ultimate joy and deepest sadness may walk hand in hand. For it is a time of love and faith and family and, for too many, of the memory of love and faith and family lost. Christmas is a state of mind in which…
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Students bring the holidays to Charleston Place friends
By: Nick D’Amore Though it was cold and rainy outside Monday, fourth-graders from Brunswick Acres were able to bring some warmth and holiday cheer to the senior citizens of Charleston Place. Select members of the school choir and band were brought to the senior housing development, led by their teacher Jennifer Barr, to sing holiday…
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Thieves flee from police pursuers
Stolen car recovered when thieves abandon to escape By:Krzysztof Scibiorski Three thieves escaped police at about 3:30 a.m. Friday but had to give up their loot a stolen car and flee into the woods. At some point last Thursday night or early Friday morning, a 1994 Nissan four-door car was stolen from Huff…
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Plumsted gets project estimate
Total cost of proposal for new elementary school, district renovations/additions set at $18.51 million. By: Scott Morgan PLUMSTED The school board on Monday approved the architectural cost estimates for proposed renovations and construction in the district. District officials have proposed construction of a 45,000-square-foot primary school, renovations to New Egypt Elementary School and the…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING UPDATE
At its Dec. 5 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a use variance that will enable a Mt. Rose architect to move his in-home business to another nearby building By: Marianne Hooker At its Dec. 5 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a use variance that will enable a…
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Essence of Faces
Yardley, Pa., painter Marie Finn has assembled a wide variety of portraits for a show in Lambertville. By: Jodi Thompson "Generations Past" by Albert Bross Jr. Pat Croce’s smile is familiar from his efforts as former team president of the Philadelphia Sixers and his unbridled enthusiasm for wiring all of the Delaware Valley with Comcast…
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Another Nasdeo starts to make his mark
By: Ken Weingartner Garrett Nasdeo knows it’s better to give than to receive and it has nothing to do with being in the holiday spirit. Last season as a freshman, Nasdeo took some lumps for the South Brunswick High wrestling team. If his performance Saturday is any indication, he’s ready to deliver the punishment…
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‘A Beautiful Mind’
The quirks of a disturbed Nobel Prize winner come to the screen in this biographical film. [PG-13] By: Kam Williams In 1994, mathematician John Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his monumental discovery and development of Game Theory during a tenure, rather early in life, at Princeton University. The young graduate student’s mathematical…
