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  • HHS boys boot Bridgewater

    Set tone for season with impressive romp By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High boys’ soccer team has officially established itself as the team to beat in the Skyland Conference Delaware Division.    Last Friday’s resounding and impressive 5-1 pasting of rival Bridgewater-Raritan proved the Raiders are playing on a higher level this fall. The victory also…

  • Einstein’s Sound

    Jon Magnussen, the new artist-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, composes music that is at once emotionally appealing and intellectually stimulating. By: Michael Redmond    Composing music is always a new adventure for Jon Magnussen, the newly appointed artist-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.    "I’d never want to look five years behind…

  • FEATURES: Fighting fires of a different sort

    Local man helps battle wildfires in Nevada and California. By: Mark Moffa    He said he’s known around town as "the man with the backpack."    Robert Bell normally jogs around East Windsor and Hightstown donning combat boots and a combat backpack. But for two weeks in August he was absent from his jogging route — his…

  • Special delivery

    Mail carrier from Millstone Township receives support from residents. By: Scott Morgan    It was a poignant moment last week when two East Windsor residents delivered a bundle of mail to their mail carrier.    The role reversal grew from neighbors’ feelings for the man whom residents have come to know as a fixture on their street.…

  • Vikes volleyballers play EB tough in defeat

    By: Brian Shappell    The 4-7 Vikings lost a heartbreaker Monday against perennial powerhouse and rival East Brunswick High School. The team pushed its rival to the limit in a three game match carrying a 12-11 lead in the final game in front of a rowdy, supportive crowd of the Vikings’ faithful . In the end,…

  • River Road accident kills Hillsborough man

    Jose Ramirez remembered as ‘a great man’ By:Alec Moore    Friends and family of Jose A. Ramirez, who died early Saturday morning in an auto accident on Millstone River Road, gathered to pay their last respects to the 21-year-old, who had just received a new job as a medical transcriber.    "It’s devastating," said Jorge Silva, longtime…

  • Trying, in vain, to see across the great divide

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By: John Tredrea     "Karma Chameleon, you come and go, you come and go …" — Boy George.     "Tears of rage, tears of grief/Why must I always be the thief?" — Bob Dylan    This is a rambling story. I can’t tell it any other way.    Nearly 30 years ago, I left New…

  • Zoners to review self-storage plan

    The zoning board will meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building By: Lea Kahn    A self-service storage company’s request to expand a non-conforming use will be considered by the Zoning Board of Adjustment at its regular meeting Wednesday.    Devon-Lawrenceville LLC will outline its application at the zoning board meeting, which begins at 7:30 p.m.…

  • The circus is coming

    Vidbel’s Olde Tyme Circus will perform two shows at the Crossroads School grounds on Oct. 14. By: Stacey Gorski    Acrobats will glide through the air, clowns will bring a smile to your face and motorcycle stunt men will perform a grand finale. The best part is, you will not have to go far from home.…