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  • Rhythm and Blues tests riding instruction system

    Rhythm and Blues tests riding instruction system

    McAuliffeJason Beck leads Glory, ridden by Kirstin Jakober, 6, of Allentown, past a video camera mounted on a wall of the riding ring at Rhythm and Blues stables in Cream Ridge. The camera is part of a radio frequency identification system that allows riders to track their techniques. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • SBHS chooses right time to get hot

    By Guy Kipp, Sports Writer    Their timing could not have been better.    After being stuck in a win-one, lose-one pattern for much of January, the South Brunswick girls’ basketball team has reeled off a four-game winning streak at a most opportune point in the season.    Monday night’s 61-39 victory over Edison put the Vikings in…

  • Resident, BOE member calls G&T funding delays unacceptable

    John Gregg, Rosedale Road Q: What is a three legged camel? A: A racehorse designed by the leadership of the Lawrence Township Public Schools Gifted and Talented (G&T) Student Task Force. Like a number of other well-intentioned parents and teachers who have labored an excessively long two years as members of this task force, I…

  • Bordentown budgets propose rate increases

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP—On Feb. 16, fire budgets and fire board commissioners in two districts will go before voters.    In District 1, incumbents Richard Rosall and Thomas Dwier will be running unopposed for re-election for two three-year seats.    Voters in that district will also decide on a $624,440 fire budget. Of that…

  • Minigrants for megalessons

    Minigrants for megalessons

    by Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    District students have the chance to see a Pulitzer-prize winning poet, to act under new stage lights, see math applied to games, and spend a month learning about autism after the Hillsborough Education Foundation provided $6,000 to fund the programs at last week’s Board of Education meeting.    The Hillsborough Education…

  • Toll plan lists MOM line as transit priority

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Gov. Jon Corzine is including a “Monmouth-Ocean Rail Analysis” among the top five mass transit priorities outlined during town hall meetings on his debt restructuring plan.    The plan would raise between $32 billion and $38 billion through the creation of an independent nonprofit agency that would oversee the state’s three…

  • Name change’s supporter remembered

    By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — People close to Lewis Koushel remember him as a man who made many contributions to the township.    Mr. Koushel, 78, died Jan. 25 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton, where he was a volunteer.    Recognized most recently for his contribution to the township’s name change,…

  • Nancy G. Shaw

       BORDENTOWN — Nancy G. Shaw, 69, died Friday at Compassionate Care Hospice.    Born in Long Branch, she resided in Bordentown for over 30 years.    Ms. Shaw worked at U.S.P.F.O.- NJ in Sea Girt for 17 years, as well as at US CECOM at Fort Monmouth for 17 years and with N.A.D.E. in Bordentown for 19…

  • 29 Days: Nikki Giovanni

    29 Days: Nikki Giovanni

    Nikki Giovanni – born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni in Knoxville, Tenn. and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio — is an acclaimed poet, writer, activist and educator.  She graduated from Fisk University  with honors in 1968, the same year she published her first book of poetry, “Black Feeling Black Talk.” She has since written more than 30 books for…