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  • Vikings get glimpse of post-season foes

    By Guy Kipp, Sports Writer    Two regular-season games against two opponents the South Brunswick girls basketball team expected to match up with again in tournament play punctuated the week.    After clinching second place in the Red Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference with a 52-28 victory over J.P. Stevens last Thursday, the Vikings lost non-division…

  • EDITORIAL: What would Gov. Corzine’s critics cut?

       Gov. Jon Corzine’s 21-county road show, a barnstorming tour featuring New Jersey’s chief executive as ringmaster promoting the politically death-defying act of raising tolls to keep up the state’s investment in transportation infrastructure while paying down a sizable portion of its debt, hit the halfway mark last week.    And the audiences have been almost uniformly…

  • E. Richard Williams

       OLD BRIDGE — E. Richard “Dick” Williams, 80, formerly of Monroe Township, died Feb. 6 in the Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge.    Born in Matawan, Mr. Williams was formerly the owner of Dick Williams and Son Enterprises Inc. (a utility contractor), owner of Dick Williams Orchestra for over 30 years, and was employed by…

  • New Jersey on brink of bankruptcy

    Robert Tomenchok Jr. of West Amwell     I applaud those persons who were able to attend the rally in Trenton to protest Comrade Corzine’s absurd monetization scheme.    This plan is nothing short of idiotic, and the fact we had to shell out some $800,000 for the super secret consultants report simply rubs salt into an…

  • Kohler leads Scotties to victory at Sovereign Bank Arena

    By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer    Although Bordentown High boys’ basketball coach Craig Parker is still homebound as he recovers from surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon, his long days and nights in the house are made much more enjoyable from the nightly cell phone calls he gets from his assistant coaches after Scotties games.    And…

  • Food drive

       Saturday, Feb. 16 — Necessities for the Heart stores will hold a food drive and gift auction at 204 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown, at 4 p.m. to benefit local food banks.    In return for donating three nonperishable items you will receive five tickets to the gift auction. All donations will benefit St. Mary’s Food Pantry on…

  • John Majoros

       ROEBLING — John Majoros, 96, of Roebling died Feb. 4 at Care One in Hamilton.    Born in Roebling, he spent his early childhood on his farm in Pennington, returning to Roebling until October, when he began his residence at Care One Hamilton. He worked for John A. Roebling Sons Company for over 40 years, mostly…

  • Best seat in the House?

    Three Hillsborough residents eyed Mike Ferguson’s seat in Congress by Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    For area politicians hoping to fill Mike Ferguson’s chair in the U.S. House of Representatives after his retirement at the end of the year, there’s a lot to be done.    The first step is paperwork, the second is advertising — which…

  • District eyes 6-cent hike in tax rate

    Proposed school budget is $65.3 million By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township Board of Education was expected to take action on a resolution to submit the school district’s proposed $65.3 million operating budget for 2008-09 to the Mercer County Department of Education as the Ledger went to press.    The proposed school district budget,…