Category: archives

  • Delaware Division football race up for grabs

    Hillsborough still plays three others in chase By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High football team has destiny in its own hands.    Four teams are still in the hunt for the Skyland Conference Delaware Division title as October action begins. Hillsborough and Phillipsburg enter the weekend unbeaten, while North Hunterdon and Warren Hills have one…

  • Hiring teachers is becoming more difficult

    Shortage most noticeable in math, sciences, world languages By: Brian Shappell and Amanda Bok    Widespread teacher shortages in New Jersey are starting to hit the area, according to school administrators from Middlesex County Districts.    Superintendents of school districts around the state are reporting difficulty in filling teaching positions available at their schools. And officials at…

  • Flagtown artist drew fame by painting his own money

    LOOKING BACK By:Michele Dansak    Emanuel Ninger’s talent was beyond compare. Art critics marveled at his work. His miniature masterpieces, done in ink, brought him much publicity in 1896. And while his work is not as well known as Rembrandt’s or Picasso’s, it’s just as recognizable. Ninger painted counterfeit money.    Ninger, a native of Germany, plied…

  • High school steps outlined

    Washington shooting for September 2005 opening By: Frank C. D’Amico    WASHINGTON – Superintendent Paul Harren this week outlined some of the major steps the Washington Township School District will have to take to build a high school.    The township currently sends its high school students to Lawrence High School, and its contract with that district…

  • SBHS Wind Ensemble earns national honor

    Invited to participate in National Concert Band Festival By: Amanda Bok    It is among the highest honors that a high school concert band can earn and it has been extended to the South Brunswick High School Wind Ensemble.    On Monday the Wind Ensemble received a personal invitation to the National Concert Band Festival from festival…

  • Wawa wins parking expansion

    Board approves application after four-hour meeting By: Nick D’Amore    The Planning Board has approved an application by Wawa to allows the Georges Road convenience store to almost double its parking.    In addition, Wawa has agreed to pay for the demolition of a historic house located on one of the two lots it will use to…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Edition of Oct. 5 Unlikely to happen again To the editor:    Just when I was beginning to worry that my ex-colleague, Stanley Stolarski, had forgotten his old friends on the school board, I found yet another of his distinctive letters in your newspaper. Although somewhat difficult to decipher in its entirety, one passage seemed particularly…

  • Board nixes Sprint tower

    Application first presented in May By:Vanessa S. Holt        CHESTERFIELD – The Township Planning Board last week unanimously denied an application from Sprint to build a communications tower in the township after Sprint failed to appear before the board for the second month in a row.    "We told residents we wouldn’t let this drag on,"…

  • PRESS FORUM: Schoolhouse Lane

    Should Schoolhouse Lane be made a one-way road? Should Schoolhouse Lane be made a one-way road?