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  • Raider netmen finish fourth in tough county

    Plaskon’s perfect season ends in semifinals By: John Beisser        The Hillsborough High boys’ tennis team sports an overall record of 8-3 and is ranked 13th in the latest New Jersey high school top-20 rankings. But the Raiders compete in one of the state’s most talent-rich counties and that fact was driven home emphatically when…

  • Florence boys’ tennis earns spot in playoffs

    By: Sean Moylan    Ovi Dragos and his Florence High boys’ varsity tennis team knew well in advance that Rancocas Valley was a good team and coming up on the schedule and they had a plan. Like all of Dragos’ plans for his Flashes there were no tricks involved, just hours and hours of hard work.…

  • NBC baseball notches pair of memorable victories

    Potts tosses complete game gem in Bordentown’s win at Florence By: Sean Moylan    The 2007 Northern Burlington County Regional High School baseball team is so remarkable it followed up Monday’s 29-3 blowout victory over Willingboro with an incredible 6-5 come-from-behind win over Moorestown on Tuesday afternoon at home.    When a varsity baseball team is clicking…

  • Utopia Found

    Roosevelt celebrates its arts heritage with a weekend of music, artwork, a sound installation, architectural walking tour and the unveiling of a community mural. By: Ilene Dube    With fewer than 1,000 residents, Roosevelt Borough has an extraordinarily high number of potters, painters, poets, opera singers, sculptors and professors.    Twenty years ago, a group of these…

  • Heavy rain doesn’t mar temple groundbreaking

    "According to Jewish tradition, rain is a sign of hope," said Har Sinai Rabbi Stuart Pollack By John Tredrea    The weather cooperated fully with the groundbreaking of the Har Sinai Temple in Hopewell Township on Friday morning.    "According to Jewish tradition, rain is a sign of hope," said Har Sinai Rabbi Stuart Pollack at the…

  • Borsuk to continue golf career at High Point

    HHS star nervous but excited about future By: Rudy Brandl    Andrew Borsuk will face many new challenges when he continues his golf career at the college level at High Point University next year.    Better players and longer courses with tougher greens are just the beginning. All college freshmen have many other adjustments to make in…

  • Seams like old times

    By: Cara Latham    ALLENTOWN — Dan Gutman had to wait two years after he finished writing children’s book, "Honus and Me," to finally see it get published.    He had received one rejection letter after another from about 10 different publishing companies before HarperCollins called him up to tell him they liked the book.    But he…

  • Trenton Film Festival

    Screenings Schedule By:    The fourth annual Trenton Film Festival opens May 4 with The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, which details how a freedom-loving Iraqi journalist was wrongly accused of being an insurgent planning to kill the Prime Minister. During Yunis Khatayer Abbas’ eight-month incarceration at Abu Ghraib Prison, he discovered…

  • Crime report reveals trends

    Rural, suburban crime increases By: Vanessa S. Holt    While statewide trends in the Uniform Crime Report for early 2006 show slightly higher crime rates in rural and suburban areas, police from several such communities said they would need to see the statistics for their specific municipalities before drawing any conclusions about local enforcement.    Attorney General…