Category: archives

  • Haas has been hot from the very start

    By: James McKeever    Three games into the 2005 high school baseball season, the South Brunswick coaching staff decided to give a sophomore named John Haas a chance to start. The kid took the opportunity and ran with it.    Haas hit a home run in his first at-bat. He’s been a fixture in the Vikings’ lineup…

  • Contractor sentenced to five years for bilking pension fund

       On April 27, 2007, Frank Knight, 55, of Millstone Township, NJ, was sentenced to five years in state prison for second degree theft by failure to make required disposition. As part of the sentence, Superior Court Judge Patricia Del Bueno Cleary also ordered Mr. Knight to pay$560,770.99 in restitution to his employees’ pension plan. Mr.…

  • Community Calendar

    Plant sale    Saturdays and Sundays in May — Fernbrook Farms will host a plant sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays at the farm, 150 Georgetown-Bordentown Road. The sale will raise money for educational programs for low-income, at-risk urban youth.    For information, call (609) 298-4028.…

  • DiClemente making plays at both ends

    HHS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK By: Rudy Brandl    Sara DiClemente has emerged as a major two-way player for the Hillsborough High girls’ lacrosse team.    The HHS junior does it all from her center midfield position. DiClemente is third on the team with 22 goals but she also defends, forces turnovers and wins face-offs. She has…

  • Opiate of the Medically Incapacitated

    The Trenton Film Festival will screen a documentary that aims to bring about safe and legal access to marijuana for New Jersey patients. By: Megan Sullivan    Despite being paralyzed by decades of multiple sclerosis, Cheryl Miller fought with such power and strength for safe and legal access to medical marijuana in New Jersey. Marijuana was…

  • Letters to the editor

    Alliance chairman thanks volunteers To the editor:     On April 14, the Upper Freehold/Allentown Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse held its largest annual fundraiser, the Harlem Wizards basketball game at Allentown High School. The event was well attended and an excellent family-fun night out. I would like to take this opportunity to thank…

  • Banditos’ festival OK’d with limits

    Conditions set on Cinco De Mayo celebration in response to fights and resulting complaints last year. By: Paul Koepp    The Cinco de Mayo party at Bandito’s Margarita Factory on Saturday may be a little less loco this year, and that could be good news for residents of the neighboring Wynwood and Whispering Woods developments.    The…

  • Latecomer Lewis boosts South

    By: David Gurney    Tim Lewis was no ordinary newcomer.    No, he wasn’t an incoming freshman with a particularly strong golf pedigree.    In fact, golf was a mere afterthought for most of his life, since he started playing when he was five. But there he was, golf tryouts just starting at the driving range, driving balls…

  • MHS softballers win two close ones

    Team avenges opening loss to Bound Brook By: John E. Powers        This past Monday, the Manville High School softball team was back at work on the last day of April. The girls diligently took groundballs, practiced bunting, hit off a tee and listened to head coach Ed Knapp as he mapped out the upcoming,…