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  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Township faces tough budget

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    An anticipated decrease in state aid may present the township with difficulties when putting together the upcoming municipal budget.    Local officials said they’re anticipating a $500,000 cut in state aid and the upcoming municipal budget will most likely carry a proposed 1 percent spending increase from last year’s $49.5 million…

  • ALLENTOWN—Scheuerman, Shonk, Maul win MCT titles

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     With three individual champions in the Mercer County Tournament, the Allentown High wrestling team was making some school history this past weekend.     Considering all three of Allentown’s champions are just sophomores, there’s even a good chance history will repeat itself.     Taylor Maul (121 pounds), Sam Shonk (132)…

  • MANVILLE: Four seniors among NJ’s ‘best and brightest’

    MANVILLE: Four seniors among NJ’s ‘best and brightest’

    Manville High School students Arielle Mizov, Yanela Cruz, Dan Kirkaldy and Takiyah Hodge have been named Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars, an award recognizing “the best and brightest New Jersey students.” Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • Stenton Hosts Talk on Two Overlooked African

    Stenton Hosts Talk on Two Overlooked African

    By Stenton Museum On Saturday, February 7, at 1:00 p.m., Historic Stenton will host a talk by Douglas B. Mooney, Senior Archaeologist with the URS Corporation, on James Oronoco Dexter and the Reverend Stephen Gloucester, two key leaders in Philadelphia’s early free Black community.  Tours emphasizing the African-American presence at Stenton will follow. Admission is…

  • FLORENCE—Girls’ basketball heading back to states

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Vince Cipriano knows his Florence High School girls’ basketball team is on a winning streak. The veteran coach would just prefer not to think about it.     “I don’t want to know,” Cipriano laughed when asked how many games his team has won in a row. “It might be…

  • ‘Che’

    ‘Che’

    Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderberg’s Che.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: EWRSD test scores top most state averages

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Students in the East Windsor Regional School District performed above state averages in virtually every category in state standardized testing, according to the State Report Cards released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.    The figures in the report are from the 2007-2008 school year, and show a marked increase…

  • MANVILLE: Thanks — and welcome

    MANVILLE: Thanks — and welcome

    Mayor Lillian Zuza presents a borough proclamation to squad volunteer Vic Emodi, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

  • NORTH BRUNSWICK: Former teacher sentenced

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    A North Brunswick High School history teacher and girls soccer team coach, who admitted to fondling a 17-year-old student in South Brunswick in 2007, has been sentenced to three years in a New Jersey state prison.    Matthew Engelson, 32, a Cherry Hill resident who previously lived in Lawrenceville, was sentenced…