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  • Raiders blank Warren Hills in football opener

    Jenkins scores, defense rules for home team by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    The Hillsborough High offense did just enough to pull out a 6-0 victory over Warren Hills in Friday night’s football season opener.    Hillsborough scored the game’s only touchdown late in the first quarter and the defense controlled the rest of the game. The…

  • Hillsborough High School’s bigger band ready to compete

    Hillsborough High School’s bigger band ready to compete

    Hillsborough High School’s marching band will be competing against some of the state’s largest school bands for the first time this year. Staff photo by Eileen Oldfield

  • South Brunswick students return to classrooms

    South Brunswick students return to classrooms

    Staff photo by John Keating Greenbrook School second-grader Ritikha Vengadesh gets right to work on the first day of school.

  • Lawrence LWV urges voter registration

    Lois Riskin of Lawrence LWV     The League of Women Voters of New Jersey issues a call to all citizens, organizations and businesses to join us in a Statewide Voter Registration Day on Saturday, Sept. 20.    Here in Mercer County, the League of Women Voters invites and urges our citizens as well as groups, organizations…

  • Margaret Renyo

       MELBOURNE, FLA. — Margaret “Peggy” Renyo died Sept. 3.    Born in Pennington, her family moved to Miami, Fla. around 1947 and returned to New Jersey in 1957.    Mrs. Renyo worked for Prudential Insurance Company, and was an office manager of the Gallery Eye Center, Millville. In 1994, she retired to Melbourne, Fla.    She was a…

  • Viking programs fired up with ample talent returning

    By John Beisser, Sports Writer    Under the direction of third-year head coach Wilfredo Rivera, the South Brunswick High School girls and boys cross country teams return plenty of talent.    The boys team went 5-2 a year ago and are looking to improve upon their fourth place showing in the GMC Championships. On the state level,…

  • South Brunswick students return to classrooms

    South Brunswick students return to classrooms

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    The big yellow buses dropped hordes of kids by the front entrance at Greenbrook School last week, while others were personally delivered by their parents.    On Sept. 4, the halls were filled with excitement as students as young as 5 years old, noisily made their way through the building and…

  • Alustiza should celebrate anniversary with great squad

    BY; Sean Moylan Sports Writer     This fall, Steve Alustiza has put together one of his best squads in years to mark his silver anniversary as the head coach of the Northern Burlington County Regional High boys’ varsity cross country team.     Over the last 25 years Alustiza has stood as living proof that a…

  • Police blotter

       Sam and Frank Domenico, both 18, of Branchburg; Jeffrey Kinkead, 18, of Neshanic Station; John Tauscher, 20, of Pierson Drive; and Adam Weinstein, 18, of Branchburg; were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop for a broken headlight on New Amwell Road at 12:33 a.m. Aug. 8.    Mr. Tauscher, who was driving…