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  • LAWRENCE: Petrone has goal for Mercer meet

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Jillian Petrone returned to the Mercer County Championship finals last year in a relay for the Lawrence High School girls swim team.    The Lawrence junior’s goal this season is to return in her relays as well as an individual event.    ”Definitely the main goal is to make it back…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Wyeth bought by Pfizer

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced last week that it had entered into an agreement to purchase rival pharmaceutical company Wyeth for $68 billion, a transaction that could have an impact on Wyeth’s South Brunswick-based research center.    Pfizer recently announced it would be cutting more than 8,000 jobs by 2011, the same…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter

       Anish Ashketar, 21, of Farm Road, was charged with providing alcohol to an underage man after police saw him give a purchased bottle of alcohol to a friend in front of Spirit World Liquor Store, on Route 206, at 7:42 p.m. Jan. 30.    Steven Brophy, 20, of Route 206, was charged with underage possession of…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Viking girls fire on all cylinders to claim third straight GMC title

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    Here’s all you need to know about how awesome the distance team was for South Brunswick High’s girls track team at the Greater Middlesex Conference Meet.    It was as awesome as the entire rest of the team was.    The Vikings captured their third straight GMC title at Toms River’s Bennett…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A game against the pros

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    In an effort to provide seniors from South Brunswick High School with a safe post-graduation party, the SBHS Project Graduation Committee will be hosting a fundraiser on Feb. 28 at the school.    The event will feature a team of active and retired professional athletes who will play six basketball games…

  • MONROE: Library shows off its new digs

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — Not only has the library physically grown from just a few shelves housed in the municipal building’s basement, but its popularity has soared climaxed over the years as well, as was demonstrated by the approximately 600 residents who attended its newly renovated Municipal Plaza building’s grand unveiling, Saturday.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: PE classes moving from sports to fitness

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Physical education classes at Hillsborough schools have students taking on all kinds of activities — even though many don’t look like the gym classes of yesterday.    High school students scale the school’s indoor rock-climbing wall, middle school students run for 40 minutes under the guise of a simple tag game,…

  • MANVILLE: Valentine’s dinner and dance to launch Project Graduation

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Manville High School’s Project Graduation — an all-night, drug and alcohol free event that allows the graduating class to celebrate the end of high school — will get a big boost next week, as the school’s Parent Teacher Student Organization (PTSA) hosts a semi-formal Valentine’s Day Dinner Dance.    The event…

  • ROBBINSVILLE—Bossie, Icenhower, Hankins top Mercer field

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     If he hadn’t just done it, Robbinsville High’s Jordon Hankins may not have believed the way he won the 147-pound wrestling class at the Mercer County Tournament on Saturday night at Trenton High. Heck, even after doing it, Hankins was having a hard time believing the way he defeated…