Category: archives

  • Close victories the key to South Brunswick tennis winning streak

    By: Rich Fisher    If two straight losses to East Brunswick had any negative effect on the South Brunswick High tennis team, you would never know it.    Since losing to EB in a regular-season match and a state tournament match Oct. 10-11, the Vikings reeled off five straight victories to raise their record to 11-6. South…

  • Pennington Holiday Walk slated Nov. 29

       The 18th annual "Holiday Walk" sponsored by the Pennington Business and Professional Association (PBPA), will take place on Nov. 29, from 6-9 p.m.    Santa Claus will be listening to those special holiday wishes in front of 1 N. Main St. Free photos with Santa will be taken, compliments of Photo Haven.    A free shuttle bus…

  • Boys soccer clinches playoff spot

    Making first post-season appearance since 1997. By: Neil Hay    The last time the Allentown High School boys’ soccer team made states, every player on this year’s team was still in middle school.    The year was 1997. Even coach Joe Stanzione was somewhere else.    But Stanzione and his booters will play in this year’s second season…

  • Unnecessary programs boost spending

    To the editor    I wanted to respond to the letter written by Ms. Sweeney last week about how her life has been ruined by the overly expensive school programs run by the Hillsborough school district.    Her letter is a definite wake-up call. This is the exact kind of situation that I have been trying to…

  • Distinguished service

    Washington Township resident John May gets top military honor from state. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Rose May happened to look through an Army newsletter that arrived in the mail one day in 1995. Her husband, John, usually didn’t read them.    Toward the back of the pamphlet she saw a letter from a Polish man…

  • Viking gymnasts satisfy GMC expectations

    By: Rich Fisher    The South Brunswick High gymnastics team gave coach Jen Petri-Charmello pretty much what she was looking for at the Greater Middlesex Conference meet last Thursday.    "I think we did well," Petri-Charmello said. "It wasn’t much better than I expected but it wasn’t worse than I expected."    The Vikings finished in fourth place…

  • ‘Va Savoir’

    A love septangle takes center stage in this soufflé-light French farce.   [PG-13] By: Kam Williams    Rare is that French film that one might accurately compare to its ugly American offspring, the television sitcom. However, we have such a bastardization in Va Savoir (Who Knows), a two-and-a-half-hour exercise in forgettable froth masquerading as more sophisticated fare.    The…

  • Manville girls fall short of states

    Dayton games will haunt Lady Mustangs By: Rudy Brandl    When the Manville High girls’ soccer team looks back on why it didn’t qualify for the Central Jersey Group 1 playoffs this year, it won’t be pointing to last Thursday’s 2-1 loss to New Providence.    While that tough defeat came one day before the state qualifying…

  • Millstone preserves Infante farm

    Township buys development rights for approximately 90-acre property off Olde Noah Hunt Road. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — Residents looking to get lost in the Infante Farm corn maze might be able to do so for a very long time after the recent adoption of an ordinance by the Township Committee.    The development rights for…