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  • WTLL softball 10’s win District 12 Tournament

    Borowski wins final By: Kyle Moylan    As the new manager of a defending state championship team, Peter Borowski felt the pressure.    After the Washington 10-year-old softball team moved a step closer to defending that title with a 9-2 win over Florence on Tuesday night at home in the District 12 title game, however, Borowski was…

  • BOOK NOTES

    Evanovich is lean and mean in Book 13 By: Joan Ruddiman    Janet Evanovich fans wait as anxiously for a new edition of Stephanie Plum’s adventures as do the Potterheads for Harry. Fortunately, Ms. Evanovich seems to have no inclination to bring Stephanie’s antics to an end either through death or marriage.    Right on schedule, "Lean…

  • The road ahead

    Jurisdiction of Sharon Station Road still looms over traffic flow issues in UF By: Cara Latham and Susan Robinson, Staff Writers    UPPER FREEHOLD — The debate about how to control increasing traffic around Sharon Station Road, Route 539 and Route 526 has been going on for over a year, but progress may come this fall…

  • Politicians can’t lay claim to lofty ranking

    EDITORIAL By:    Money magazine’s annual list of the best places to live in the U.S. released last week placed Hillsborough at No. 23, which probably didn’t surprise too many residents, but we hope the ranking doesn’t actually go to anyone’s head.    Already the ranking has been bandied about as a political tool, offered as proof…

  • EDITORIAL: Another study will be a waste of tax money

    Shore-area politicians push for new studies is nothing more than an attempt to make the math come out in their favor.    What’s another million dollars among friends?    That’s the question that members of the U.S. House of Representatives should ask as they prepare to vote on the 2008 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill,…

  • Islamic Society plan wins OK in South Brunswick

    A change in the traffic pattern on Route 522 paves way for mosque expansion, construction of Islamic school. By: Paul Koepp    The Zoning Board of Adjustment paved the way July 19 for the Islamic Society of Central Jersey to build the infrastructure needed to expand its facilities at the intersection of Route 1 and Promenade…

  • Judge keeps bail at $250K for drug, weapon charges

    By: Olivia Tattory    NORTH HANOVER — A Superior Court judge last week kept bail set at $250,000 for former North Hanover Republican Party Chairman Frank Preto, who was charged July 11 with multiple counts of illegal weapon and drug possession, said David Rhoads, Mr. Preto’s lawyer.    As of Wednesday, Mr. Rhoads Said, Mr. Preto had…

  • Marriage Unleashed

    In Somerset Valley Players’ production of ‘Sylvia,’ dog ownership gets in the way of marital bliss. By: Megan Sullivan    After 22 years of child raising in the suburbs, Greg and Kate have finally become empty nesters in their new Manhattan apartment. Kate welcomes a fresh start, along with all of the opportunities that arise in…

  • Hollywood’s Gay Sensibility

    ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’ and ‘Hairspray’ recycle well-worn formulas, proving Hollywood is locked in the ‘celluloid closet.’ By: Elise Nakhnikian (Jerry Stiller, John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky star in the movie musical Hairspray.)    Gay marriage may have worked as a wedge issue in the 2004 election, but that tactic must be on…