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  • Religous News

       St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, located on Sand Hill Road, will be hosting several upcoming events. All are welcome at every event.    The church’s annual International Sunday celebration will be Feb. 3 with services at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. The liturgy will be drawn from Anglican Prayer Books from around the world, the…

  • Weise’s girls take 9-5 record into week

    By Kyle Moylan, Sports Writer    Going into action this past Tuesday night against Notre Dame, the Allentown High School girls’ basketball team needed to win only one of five games to clinch a spot in the Central Jersey Group II Tournament.    One will do it. Any number closer to five, however, will improve the odds…

  • SBHS has a day at Lavino Relays

    By Sean Richards, Sports Writer    It took a while for the guys to catch up to the girls, but now the entire South Brunswick High School winter track team is hitting its stride. And, it couldn’t have come at a better time with the Greater Middlesex Conference championships on tap for next week.    The latest…

  • Mary Shutack

    MANVILLE — Mary J. Shutack died Jan. 16 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 76.    Born in Maizeville, Pa., she was a resident of Manville for the past 58 years.    Mrs. Shutack was a homemaker after working at Diehls Corp. in Bridgewater for many years. She also worked at Foothill Acres Nursing Home…

  • Rotarians donate dictionaries for all third-graders

    by Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Hillsborough’s third-grade students received a wordy gift recently, after the Manville/Hillsborough Rotary Club donated dictionaries for each student.    In its second year of donating the dictionaries, the Rotary Club donated 525 books to all district third graders Jan. 15 and Jan. 16.    According to former Rotary President Peter Passalacqua, Rotary…

  • Slezak, Lee putting together great seasons

    By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer    The Bordentown High wrestling team posted a 45-31 win over Steinert in a quad meet at home this past Saturday.    ”The biggest match was Khalid Shakir’s win at 125 pounds. He pinned his kid (Cody Smith) with seven seconds to go in the match,” said Bordentown Coach Joe Sprague, who…

  • Vikes have been good so far, but the test is yet to come

    By Michael Holcombe, Sports Writer    After several years of frustration, the South Brunswick ice hockey team has put together an impressive season, going 10-2-1.    But with the state tournament just around the corner and a crucial home and home series with Bernards that could decide the Blue Division title coming at the end of the…

  • Jan. 24, 2008

       Donald Colavita    Donald S. Colavita, of Lawrence, died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton. He was 67.    Born in Trenton, Mr. Colavita was a lifelong Lawrence resident.    He retired in 1998 as a computer analyst with the State of New Jersey, Office of Information Technology located in Ewing at the N.J. State Police…

  • Smith doesn’t ‘mind’ winning 100th

    Senior uses non-thinking man’s approach to reach century mark By Ken Weingartner, Sports Writer    Yogi Berra once said he couldn’t think and hit at the same time. Ryan Smith’s approach to wrestling is similar.    And like Berra, who put together a Hall of Fame career by not thinking and hitting, Smith is among the elite…