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  • Panel considers more trash pickup

           MANSFIELD – Township residents will have weekly garbage pickup for another five months while the Township Committee considers returning the pickup schedule to twice a week. By:Jeff Mikalaitis        MANSFIELD – Township residents will have weekly garbage pickup for another five months while the Township Committee considers returning the pickup schedule to twice a…

  • Seems like a lack of respect is eroding the country

    DEAR NEIGHBOR By:Hugh Brennan    Sometimes I feel like an ancient Roman just before the fall of the empire. Surely there must have been a good number of citizens who saw the end coming and who spent their days in a combination of nostalgic longing and dread foreboding.    Next year I’ll be 50. I grew up…

  • HHS booters can’t catch break in SCT semifinals

    By: Rudy Brandl        BRANCHBURG – Only the wind was on Hillsborough High’s side during the second half of Saturday’s Somerset County boys’ soccer semifinals at Raritan Valley Community College.    Luck certainly wasn’t.    Trailing top-ranked Pingry 1-0, the fifth-seeded Raiders did everything but score a goal in the second half. Hillsborough completely dominated the action,…

  • Rider field hockey wins North East Conference title

    Rider NotesThe Rider University field hockey team defeated top-seed Monmouth in the semifinals and No. 2-seed Quinnipiac in the finals to win the North East Conference Championship last weekend at Monmouth. By: Nick Schaefer    Senior Tracey Speck scored with 21 minutes and 51 seconds left in the first half on a pass from junior Janette…

  • Dorothy Gulgin

       Dorothy Gulgin, 61, of South Brunswick died Oct. 28 at home.    She was born on June 6, 1939 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Rahway, and lived in South Brunswick with her husband for 35 years.    She retired from the South Brunswick Board of Education in December 1999 as a secretary in an elementary school. She enjoyed…

  • Local man coordinates balloon release to raise monument funds

       It’s always a pleasure when people can find ways to lift the spirits of those who gave their efforts during wartime.    Sometimes, this also can be accomplished by a gesture. By:Michael Maugeri    It’s always a pleasure when people can find ways to lift the spirits of those who gave their efforts during wartime.    Sometimes, this…

  • Experts say Brearley House haunted

    Spiritual ‘orbs’ populate historical structure    The Brearley House doesn’t look like Hollywood’s classic vision of a haunted house. It’s a modest, 18th-century brick farmhouse – not a 19th-century Victorian, with a sharp, peaked roof and a creaky front porch. By: Lea Kahn    But try telling that to the group of investigators from the South Jersey…

  • Dog could be used in local traffic stops

           MANSFIELD – Patrolman Nick Giannini said he feels his 3-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, Willy, could be a valuable asset to the Mansfield Township Police Department and the community. By:Jeff Mikalaitis        MANSFIELD – Patrolman Nick Giannini said he feels his 3-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, Willy, could be a valuable asset to the Mansfield Township…

  • Girls await states

    Lady Bulldogs play Delaware Valley today in tourney;No matter what happens from this point on, the girls soccer team from Hopewell Valley has to consider this year to be a great success. By: Matt Nalbone    They finished the regular season with a very impressive 17-1-1 record and got the No. 1 seed in the Central…