Category: archives
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Games closer, but Vikes still perfect
SBHS gets off to a 5-0 start By Michael Holcombe, Sports Writer While it wasn’t blowing teams out the way it did in the season’s opening week, the South Brunswick High School ice hockey team was still able to remain unbeaten, picking up a pair of wins last Wednesday and Friday to move to 5-0.…
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School funding plan gets cautious greeting from district officials
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed new school funding formula, if approved by the Legislature, could bring Hillsborough an additional $4,205,000 in state funding for the 2008 to 2009 school year. But Superintendent of Schools Edward Forsthoffer said he is cautious about conditions the state may set dictating how the money can…
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Mustangs will keep busy over holidays
Cagers, wrestlers with plenty on tap by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor Manville High’s winter athletic teams are competing in more events than usual before the new year. The early start of the winter season left more days to play games before the end of December and the Mustangs are taking full advantage. Both MHS basketball…
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NJ R & C council announces youth science tournament
PRINCETON — Young scientists will compete in the Princeton University Regional Science Olympiad in Jadwin & McDonnell Halls and Fine Halls on Tuesday, Jan. 8. The tournament, sponsored by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, will feature the work of middle and high school students from Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Hunderton, Somerset, Sussex and…
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Jeffery B. Hughes
TAMPA, Fla. Jeffery B. Hughes, 29, died Dec. 11. He was born and raised in Bordentown, and had resided in the Tampa area for the past 11 years. He was a member of the IBEW Local Union 915. His pastimes were playing golf and riding motorcycles. He was an avid New York Yankees and…
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Joan Barringer
Joan M. (Zeman) Barringer, 75, died Tuesday, Dec. 18, at home. Born in Queens, N.Y., she lived there and then in Kendall Park for 12 years, moving to Clearbrook in 2003. During a 25-year working career, she was a waitress at Bel Aire Diner in Astoria, N.Y., for 20 years, and started her own card…
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Rescheduled concert held in nick of time
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer After snow and ice postponed the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School and Manville High School winter concert Dec. 13, some of the students had one concern. ”My only concern was if it was going to be canceled and we’d have an ‘after-Christmas Christmas concert,’” said Manville High School student conductor Alex…
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Charlotte K. Angebranndt
YARDVILLE Charlotte K. Angebranndt, 80, died Saturday at Care One in Ewing. Ms. Angebranndt had been a lifelong area resident. She was retired from CoreStates Bank and was a parishioner of St. Vincent DePaul Church in Yardville. Daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Rosso and sister of the late Alonzo, Joseph and Pasquale…
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Cell towers on Carter Road edging closer toward reality
Property is township-owned By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Lawrence Township officials are forging ahead with a suggestion to locate up to two cell towers on township-owned land on Carter Road, near the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Township Council authorized Municipal Manager Richard Krawczun to prepare bid specifications for putting the towers on the 2-acre property Tuesday…
