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  • Walton remembered as great athlete, teammate

    HHS coaches, teammates mourn tragic loss by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    Jason Walton will be remembered as a superb athlete, great teammate and very determined young man with a wonderful personality.    Last week’s tragic death on the train tracks near Beekman Lane can’t erase all of Walton’s fabulous accomplishments and wonderful memories. It can only…

  • MYAL set to begin football practice

    Pop Warner program expects more numbers by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    Numbers should be up when the Manville Youth Athletic League kicks off its 2008 football and cheerleading seasons with the official start of practice Friday at Gerber Field.    MYAL president Gregg Snyder and Manville High head football coach Brett Stibitz share the same enthusiasm…

  • ‘Step Brothers’

    ‘Step Brothers’

    What makes this movie endearing rather than annoying is the sheer intensity with which Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly bound around like overripe 8-year-olds. By Elise Nakhnikian “GENRE films essentially ask the audience: ‘Do you still want to believe this?’” wrote film scholar Leo Braudy. “Popularity is the audience answering, ‘Yes.’ Changes in genres…

  • ‘Step Brothers’

    ‘Step Brothers’

    Will Ferrell (left) and John C. Reilly star in Step Brothers.

  • Safe stolen from Bell’s Tavern

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — In the close quarters of a Lambertville neighborhood, how does someone manage to steal a safe that weighs between 150 and 200 pounds and not get caught in the act?    That’s what Lambertville police want to know.    Someone stole the safe from Bell’s Tavern on North Union Street…

  • ‘Brick Lane’

    ‘Brick Lane’

    Christopher Simpson as Karim in Brick Lane.

  • Teens injured in Boozer Lane accident

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    A 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl, both of Hillsborough, were taken to Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center after suffering serious injuries when the vehicle in which they were passengers struck a tree on Boozer Lane Monday evening.    Joseph Montano, 20, of Titus Court, was driving the vehicle at 10:14…

  • ‘Step Brothers’
  • Manville boys end summer hoops on high note

    Zangara nails eight 3-pointers in victory by John E. Powers, Sports Writer    The Manville High boys’ basketball team didn’t just win its final game in the Bound Brook Summer League. The team did it in a memorable way.    Led by Matt Zangara’s 24 points on eight 3-pointers, the Manville club knocked off Union Catholic 52-37…