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  • Riverfront students have fun while solving problems

    By Stephanie Prokop    FLORENCE — What happens when 200 students interact with six popular televisions shows all while simultaneously learning practical classroom lessons?    For the Riverfront School gifted and talented students who attended the “Tune N2 Talent” consortium May 15, the result was a lot of fun and hands-on experiences that they won’t soon forget.…

  • High school musical earns award nominations

    High school musical earns award nominations

    By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    It’s not Broadway yet, but it’s a start for the Hillsborough High School students who participated in this year’s musical production, “Once on This Island.”    A competition for the Paper Mill Playhouse’s Rising Star Awards — created as a Tony award equivalent for New Jersey high school musicals — netted…

  • Meeting planned to address deaths on town’s tracks

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    The Rev. Linda Pepe, of North Ninth Avenue, is holding the first of what she hopes will be many meetings to look at ways to deal with — and prevent — more deaths on the railroad tracks that run through town.    ”We have this thing going through town taking so…

  • EDITORIAL: Join veterans in honoring fallen heroes

       American soldiers continue to die in Iraq.    More than a dozen have died this month, bringing the total dead in the war to nearly 4,100.    In Afghanistan, more than 500 Americans have died.    And the number of Iraqi and Afghan deaths are in the tens of thousands.    And yet, these wars have receded from view…

  • AHS baseball opens playoffs with one-sided win

    Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Although it was a top seed playing against the 16th-ranked one, none of the players on the Allentown High baseball team assumed they would defeat Roselle simply by showing up for this past Monday’s Central Jersey Group II playoff game.     Now showing up and playing the way the Allentown…

  • High school musical earns award nominations

    High school musical earns award nominations

    The spring musical staged at Hillsborough High School received multiple nominations in the Rising Star Awards. Staff photo by Eileen Oldfield

  • Man guilty of sex assault

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    A Dayton man was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a state Superior Court judge in New Brunswick on Friday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 7-year-old boy in a public bathroom.    Charles Waldron, 29, was arrested at the Macy’s department store in the Brunswick Square Mall in…

  • St. Joe’s just had too much for Vikes to handle this year

    Falcons top SBHS for third time in GMCT finals By David Gurney, Sports Writer    JAMESBURG — The final seconds ticked away and as the buzzer sounded, the St. Joseph’s of Metuchen boys lacrosse reserves rushed onto the field and swarmed like a hive of bees around its starters.    The way they mobbed one another, you…

  • Dorothy Nancy Faber

       CREAM RIDGE — Dorothy Nancy Faber, 78, of Cream Ridge, died Thursday, May 15, at her home.    Born in Hightstown, she was a lifetime area resident. A member of Upper Freehold Baptist Church, Ms. Faber worked for Weiners Department Store and the Bank of MidJersey in New Egypt for many years. She later retired as…