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  • Somerset Valley YMCA and a Healthy New You

    By Donna Dass                    As we look to 2010, what better time to pursue well-being in spirit, mind and body and celebrate healthy living? During January, the Somerset Valley YMCA is once again offering its Healthy New You promotion.   New members can take advantage of new equipment (new spinning bikes in Hillsborough…

  • Dreaming of a Green Holiday

    Dreaming of a Green Holiday

    Make gift-giving a thoughtful process By Jeff Hoagland    IT’S easy to get caught up in the hype of another holiday shopping season, but each year I try to keep gift-giving a thoughtful process. In my search for the right gift for friends and family members I will confess that I try to look through green-colored…

  • YOUR VIEWS: End torture by videotaping interrogations

    The Rev. Robert Moore of Princeton     US Rep. Rush Holt recently helped restore the role of American values in our country by ensuring that the interrogation of detainees in US Department of Defense custody is videotaped. He wrote a bill requiring videotaping, offered it as an amendment to the FY 2010 National Defense Authorization…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council reviewing Dayton sidewalk projects

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    The Township Council heard recommendations Tuesday from engineering firms for two projects to install sidewalks along Ridge Road and Georges Road in Dayton and improve and crosswalks at the Five Corners intersection.    The council listened to a concept plan and has to determine the width of the roads and on…

  • MANVILLE: Wrestlers hope to continue improvement

    by John Beisser, Special Writer    On paper, the 2009-2010 Manville High wrestling can best be described in two words — young and talented.    The Mustangs return several key pieces from a team that compiled a 7-20 record a year ago and third-year head coach Pat Gorbatuk is cautiously optimistic that the team’s record will improve…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Conover taking his turn coaching boys basketball team 

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     With 12 years of coaching experience — two recently with the West Windsor South girls team — Byron Conover is taking over the Robbinsville High boys’ basketball program.     Conover is the fourth different boys’ basketball coach at Robbinsville in the past five years.     “Within any organization, there…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: New quarry owners outline plans for former 3-M mine

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Representatives from Gibraltar Rock of Belle Mead, which finalized its purchase of the 3M Quarry in June, spoke before the Township Committee Tuesday to discuss its business and plans for the future.    According to Gibraltar Rock co-owner John Silvi, truck shipments began at the quarry on Aug. 12, with rail…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes squad nation’s best

    HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes squad nation’s best

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The second time was the charm for the Hillsborough Dukes Jr. Midget cheer squad, which became national champions at the Pop Warner Little Scholars 2009 National Cheer & Dance Championships in Florida on Wednesday.    ”It was absolutely amazing and unspeakable,” said head coach Kristen Mazuera, speaking from her Florida hotel…

  • David Hidalgo and Louie Perez of Los Lobos – Duo releases frst Songwriter Album, titled The Long Goodbye

    David Hidalgo and Louie Perez of Los Lobos – Duo releases frst Songwriter Album, titled The Long Goodbye

    By James Webber Los Lobos albums always seem to land on infuential critics’ top 10 lists. With a canon of work that includes such iconic songs as “Will the Wolf Survive?” from Los Lobos’ breakthrough album, 1984’s How Will the Wolf Survive?; “Kiko and the Lavender Moon,” from 1992’s Kiko; the title tune from The…