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  • Boys track and field team at MHS finishes 6-1

    Performs well despite some off-track obstacles By: Rudy Brandl    Bad weather and scheduling conflicts were about the only things that stopped the Manville High boys’ track and field team this spring.    The Mustangs finished the season with an impressive 6-1 record in dual meets, but four regular season contests were canceled. Two meets were washed…

  • Improved hitting keys late May surge

    Mustang baseball wins four of final six to finish 8-11 By: Rudy Brandl    Practice and game experience led to tremendous improvement for the young Manville High baseball team this spring.    After struggling to a 4-9 start that knocked them out of playoff contention in early May, the Mustangs won four of their final six games…

  • Galli strikes gold again

    ATHLETE OF THE WEEK    Jessica Galli was the fastest thing on wheels at last week’s NJSIAA Meet of Champions in South Brunswick.    The Hillsborough High sophomore, who has been confined to a wheelchair for the past eight years since breaking her spinal cord in a car accident, proved she’s a winner both on and off…

  • Monroe Jewish Center had humble beginnings

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — The Monroe Township Jewish Center started with four families meeting in a backyard.    “It was during the Jewish holidays. We were unhappy because we didn’t have a place of our own for services,” said Fredda Rothman, a founding mother of the center, which is now 18 years old.    Ms. Rothman said…

  • American Jews played an important role in the "wild west"

    By:Al Wicklund         MONROE — The American Jewish experience in the “wild West” was wild and varied, Sylvia Moskowitz said Monday at the township Jewish Center.     “The stereotype of ‘the little Jewish peddler’ as the only representative of the Westward-bound Jew does injustice to thousands of other Jewish settlers — farmers, prospectors, explorers,…

  • Richard Hennessy Sr., 64

       Richard A. Hennessy Sr., 64, died Thursday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New Brunswick, he lived most of his life in the Jamesburg area. He was the manager of the Merit Oil Company service station on Route 18 in East Brunswick for over 20 years, retiring in 1997. He also…

  • Woman receives volunteer award

    Isabelle Hickman Award goes to Eleanor Smith By: Kristy Klaus ‘When I consider all you have done and continue to do even at the age of 92, I am awestruck.’ Patricia Cavanaugh    Eleanor Smith is preserved in alcohol.    At least that’s the little joke she tells people when they ask her for her secret to…

  • Inmates warn kids of drug abuses

    Ninth-grade students hear from prisoners of dangers By:Jeff Mikalaitis        BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Ninth-grade students at Bordentown Regional High School and eighth-grade students at MacFarland Junior School received a reality check on Friday from four state prison inmates who spoke to the group about the true consequences of drug and alcohol abuse.    Before the inmates…

  • Lawrence becoming too commercial

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    I have great concern over the amount of land in Lawrence Township that is being consumed for land development. Projects such as new malls, car dealerships and housing developments are destroying the natural land of this beautiful township.    Lawrence is turning into a largely commercial town where it…