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  • Soccer teams remain undefeated

    Boys, girls defeat Hunterdon Central By: Rudy Brandl Although the Hillsborough High football and field hockey teams lost their Saturday games to Hunterdon Central, both Raider soccer units and the gymnastics squad defeated their Delaware Division rivals from Flemington to give HHS a 3-2 edge in the overall school head-to-head battle. The Hillsborough boys and…

  • Service center gala raises thousands

    The Community Action Service Center raised over $9,000 with last week’s first Community Activist Award Gala. By: T.J. Furman    Following the success of last week’s Community Activist Award Gala, the Community Action Service Center in Hightstown hopes to make the event an annual occasion.    The service center’s executive director, Lydia Santoni-Lawrence, said the gala, held…

  • Letters to the Editor, Sept. 21

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Sept. 21 By: Sympathies flow across the ocean To the editor:    I write to you from London, where I have lived for the past year. My family and I moved here from Princeton, where we had lived for 12 years. I write to express our personal grief to the families in…

  • School board mulls $7 million expansion project

    The tax impact could be between $136 and $176 a year for the owner of a house assessed at $100,000. By: Casha Caponegro    The school board is considering a school expansion project that could cost approximately $7 million.    The board listened to presentations Wednesday from KSS architect, Allan Kehrt, Robert Emery of Bovis Lend Lease,…

  • MHS rebuilding cross country program

    Treonze starts over with five freshman girls By: Rudy Brandl    This wasn’t supposed to be a rebuilding year, but the Manville High cross country program once again finds itself in that difficult phase. Veteran head coach Tony Treonze has dealt with low participation numbers in the past, but he wasn’t expecting a need for recruitment…

  • Building a garden to remember

    Twin Rivers residents Hal Scherer and Alberto Billini have built a garden in order to memorialize local residents killed in last week’s terrorist attacks. By: T.J. Furman    EAST WINDSOR — In the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks against the United States and the apparent imminent retaliatory strikes by the nation’s military, the local area…

  • Lady Mustangs hit brief soccer skid

    Drop back-to-back games after impressive opener By: Rudy Brandl    All of a sudden, the Manville High girls’ soccer team hit an early season skid.    Things were looking pretty good after the opening game and the first goal of last week’s much-anticipated game against South River. The Lady Mustangs romped past Bound Brook in a 4-0…

  • Mary Oberc

       Mary M. Oberc, 91, of Lawrenceville died Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    Mrs. Oberc was a sales clerk with the materials department of Willett’s department store in Trenton, retiring in the 1970s after 15 years. She also had…

  • Arts Council wants to stay in Princeton

    Group hopes a modified expansion plan for its Witherspoon Street location will win approval. By: Jennifer Potash    The Arts Council of Princeton has decided it does not want to move from its downtown site at 102 Witherspoon St. and hopes a modified expansion plan can get local approval.    The organization announced its intentions Wednesday, at…