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  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    A Louis Street resident was treated for dog bites at 6:35 p.m. April 30, after a dog bit her leg on North 10th Avenue. The dog was registered and the owner was on hand at the time of the incident. ***    John Fasoli, 26, Fredericksburg, Va., and Stephen Maikisch III, 29, of Somerset, were…

  • Beighley sets school record

    TRACK By: Tim Falls    Pat Beighley won the triple jump for the Lawrence High School boys varsity track team at the Bernards Invitational last Saturday.    The senior Cardinal claimed the event on his final attempt and set a school record with his jump of 43 feet, 9.5 inches. Beighley set the school record last season…

  • Spirit of a Troubadour

    Singer-songwriter Arlon Bennett finds inspiration in everything from baseball to Rosa Parks. By: Susan Van Dongen    There’s something almost Zen-like about the patter of a baseball announcer. Set against the laid-back pace of the game, the sound of the bat making contact with the ball and the crowd’s reaction to the action, the guy in…

  • Wilk continues family lacrosse legacy

    HHS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK By: John Beisser    While it may not be true that Hillsborough High senior Jake Wilk was born with a lacrosse stick in his hands, he did grow up in a lacrosse happy family and has been playing the game for more than half his life.    When you have an older…

  • HoVal is still at its best

    GOLF By: Tim Falls    Even the Bulldogs’ best wasn’t enough.    The Hopewell Valley Central High School varsity golf team recorded its lowest round of the season, but still lost to Allentown, 198-210, on Tuesday.    It was the sixth straight loss for the Bulldogs, after starting the season with an 8-1 run.    Andrew Glander led Hopewell…

  • NBC softball squad after spot in playoffs today

    Florence, Bordentown should be in line for great tourney seeds By: Sean Moylan    Last week some people were ready to bury the Northern Burlington County Regional High varsity softball team. Yet if the Greyhounds win today’s (Thursday) home game versus Burlington Township, they’ll be back in the state tournament.    NBC ran into a potential problem…

  • New superintendent named

    Richard Fitzpatrick to lead Upper Freehold Regional School District By: Cara Latham    Richard Fitzpatrick said he knows residents, teachers and administrators in the Upper Freehold and Allentown school district are "people of character."    Because residents set aside their own needs and place great value on fulfilling the needs of the area’s children, this will determine…

  • Bulldogs are primed for postseason

    GIRLS LACROSSE By: Tim Falls    Each win offers up a little more encouragement and losses only fuel the fire.    That fire is driving the Hopewell Valley Central High School girls varsity lacrosse team to push itself as far into the postseason as it can go.    Clearly the Bulldogs have the talent to go rather far.…

  • Aichele, Rodriguez honored as scholar athletes

    MHS seniors enjoy special evening By: Mary Ellen Zangara        Manville High seniors Leonardo Rodriguez and Michelina Aichele were named their school’s 2007 Somerset County Scholar Athletes and were honored at the 24th annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner Thursday night at the Doubletree Hotel in Somerset. The annual dinner is sponsored by the Somerset County…