Category: archives
-

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…
-

Bidding woes worry council
Low-bid contract rules delaying major construction projects. By: Paul Koepp Township officials say the state’s low-bid contract rules are delaying major construction projects, leading to costly litigation, and causing numerous other headaches. However, organizations that represent towns across the state on contract issues, as well as some state and local officials, say there are things…
-

FEMA meeting to address residents’ questions
A session is scheduled for this evening at Weston Elementary School. By: Rebecca Weltmann A meeting to discuss flood-related issues caused by the April nor’easter is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, at Weston Elementary School. Mayor Corradino said he hopes to have a Federal Emergency Management Agency representative present to answer questions related to…
