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  • Vikings heating up as tournaments near

    By: James McKeever    With the start of tournament season just days away, the South Brunswick baseball team is back on the winning track and looking to get on a hot streak at the crucial time of the year.    The Vikings (12-5) suffered through a four-game losing streak – which included three one-run decisions – before…

  • Girls advance to SCT lacrosse semifinals

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High girls’ lacrosse team opened the Somerset County Tournament with a 15-7 victory over Bernards Monday afternoon.    Hillsborough (9-3), the second seed in the tourney, will host No. 3 Ridge in next Monday’s semifinals at 5:30 p.m. on the Noonan Field stadium turf. It’s a rubber match…

  • Andrews wins, saves county baseball game for Raiders

    Senior lefty baffles Bridgewater By: Rudy Brandl        Mark Andrews found himself in a rather strange predicament Saturday afternoon. The Hillsborough High baseball team should be thankful its senior southpaw found a way to hold off Bridgewater-Raritan and preserve a 2-1 victory in a nail-biting Somerset County Tournament quarterfinal game.    Andrews (6-0) had pitched brilliantly…

  • Dow Jones workers watch buy out bid

    Bid by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to buy publisher leaves workers worried about their jobs. By: Paul Koepp    A $5 billion bid by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to buy publisher Dow Jones & Co. may have added to local employees’ uncertainty about their job security, a union official there said.    The company’s South Brunswick campus,…

  • South faces steady dose of fearsome foes

    By: Rich Fisher    If the South Brunswick High tennis team were located in another county in another part of the state, it too, might be recognized throughout New Jersey as a tennis power.    Unfortunately for the Vikings, they play in the same Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division as state power East Brunswick, and the same…

  • MHS softballers look to finish strong

    Team undaunted by three-game skid By: John E. Powers        Nine games remain on the schedule for the Manville High School softball team.    With a 3-10 record, the Lady Mustangs won’t be chasing a Skyland Conference Valley Division title or a spot in the Central Jersey Group 1playoff field. The MHS girls are playing for…

  • BRHS golf battles way into playoffs

    By: Sean Moylan    Two weeks ago the Bordentown Regional High coed varsity golf team was playing well, but it was still in serious danger of falling out of the playoff hunt.    On April 25 the Scotties hosted the Cinnaminson Pirates at Hanover and defeated them by an amazing 159-185 final score. That tremendous victory set…

  • Town budget still on hold

    Council says there is no rush to introduce and adopt the budget. By: Paul Koepp    The Township Council missed a March 12 deadline to formally introduce the municipal budget and an April 24 deadline to adopt it, but officials say there is still no rush.    "There’s no real penalty," said Joe Monzo, the township finance…

  • Town plans meetings on Route 1

    Township officials take steps toward confronting Department of Transportation. By: Paul Koepp    Township officials who vowed to fight the state Department of Transportation’s decision not to widen Route 1 say they are taking steps to make their case.    Township Councilman Joe Camarota said on Tuesday that meetings have since been scheduled between local officials and…