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  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Board fields questions on Dec. 8 referendum

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer     BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The school district’s nearly $8.5 million solar panel and athletic field referendum received mixed reviews from about 40 residents at a public hearing last week.     The Bordentown Regional School District’s one question on Tuesday, Dec. 8, would build artificial turf athletic fields at the high…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Former stars of ‘Les Miserables’ directing local production

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    Two Broadway veterans will bring their craft to South Brunswick for a performance of “Les Miserables” by the New Jersey Repertory Theatre.    Husband-and-wife directors Ron Sharpe and Barbra Russell, who reside in Dayton with their two children, have an extensive list of Broadway credits between them, having met 16 years…

  • ‘Precious’

    ‘Precious’

    Troubles are piled on so relentlessly that the movie starts to feel like a parody of itself Elise Nakhnkian “WHAT do I mean if I say the author portrays her protagonist’s situation as unrelenting?” asks Miss Rain (Paula Patton), the Christlike teacher who saves Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), the teenage Job at the center…

  • ROOSEVELT: Controversial Jewish school must reduce enrollment

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    ROOSEVELT — Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah has recently filed an appeal to a state judge’s decision that forces the Jewish school to reduce its student body from 31 to 12 by the end of the school year.    Judge Lawrence Lawson of state Superior Court in Monmouth County ruled Nov. 13 the…

  • Miss New Jersey 2009 Empowers You to ‘Feel Great!’
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Mugging of jogger reported

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    A mugger attempted to steal a female jogger’s iPod in Whispering Woods on Friday, but was frightened off by the woman’s screams, police said.    The woman, who is in her 40s, was on Long Bridge Way returning from an evening jog to her Whispering Woods residence at about 9:30 p.m.…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Female Ravens best in Group 1 soccer

    By Kyle Moylan, Sports Editor    EWING — Resistance was futile.    Leaving little to chance and nothing to doubt, the Robbinsville High School girls soccer team completed its demolition of the Group I field Saturday at The College of New Jersey. Robbinsville defeated Cresskill, 3-0, to repeat as Group I champs.    In its five-state playoff games,…

  • MANSFIELD: Police may ID body soon

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer     State police may have identified the body of a woman that washed up on the shore of the Delaware River nearly two weeks ago, police said Tuesday.     “State police are working on a tentative ID supplied by a family member who viewed the tattoo and composite drawing on…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Talks continue at Acme markets

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer     The potential for a strike hovered over numerous Acme markets this week, including the store on Dunns Mill Road off Route 130 in Bordentown Township.     Contract negotiations continued through the weekend, and Tuesday, it appeared the strike had yet to materialize.     Earlier this month, the union took…