Category: archives
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Kids and Community
Prejudices still alive in our society By: Judy Shepps Battle The dust finally is starting to settle after last weeks media frenzy surrounding radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers womens basketball team. The final score? Decency: 1; Don Imus: 0. Don Imus has been fired twice. The women on the team…
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For the sake of health
Healthy Kids Day Chiropractor Michele Mauro Rabito of Hopewell explains reflexes to 9-year-old Helan Thorntona and her sister, Karen, 5, during the Healthy Kids event at the YMCA in Pennington on Saturday. Among features were a fitness course, vendors with healthy lifestyle choices and giveaways
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Happy Feet
Maurice Hines brings renewed joy and fancy footwork to Crossroads Theatre. By: Kristin Boyd When Maurice Hines began taking tap dance classes at age 5, he’d run home after every session and teach the steps to his 3-year-old brother, Gregory. Gregory could master the moves immediately, but Maurice, who had to practice more, could remember…
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On Point
Learning the rules of the rails By: Linda McCarthy My husband is a seasoned commuter. Every workday for the past 15 years he has boarded a train and headed to New York City. For the 10 years prior to that, it was a bus. Needless to say, he’s perfected traveling to and from work. When…
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Nothin’ but net gains
Game benefits local drug alliance By: Kyle Moylan UPPER FREEHOLD If you’re going to look silly or walk away with some aches and pains, it might as well be for a good cause. Helping to raise money for the Allentown-Upper Freehold Drug Free Municipal Alliance by playing the Harlem Wizards in a basketball game…
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Campus shooting hits home
SBHS grad lives in ill-fated dorm at Virginia Tech. By: Emily Holody On Monday, Chaille Godinez was on the first floor of her dormitory at Virginia Tech University when a friend called and asked, "Are you OK? There was a shooting in your building." Ms. Godinez, 18, a 2006 graduate of South Brunswick High School,…
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Bordentown baseball wins Clayton Tournament
By: Sean Moylan With two major triumphs this past Saturday, the Bordentown High baseball team not only won the Clayton Tournament, it also turned around its season in the process. Moreover, Shawn Carter showed why his potential at the plate is unlimited with an incredible MVP performance at the tourney. Carter went 3-for-5 with seven…
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Swirling wind skews shots
TENNIS By: Tim Falls Hopewell Valley Central High School boys varsity tennis coach Alma Quinlan is still waiting for the weather to cooperate. Wind and cold hampered Hopewell Valley in a loss to West Windsor-Plainsboro South on Friday. Rain kept the Bulldogs off the courts against Princeton. "We’re coming along," said Quinlan, "considering the conditions…
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Florence tennis nets rebound win
By: Sean Moylan Coming off a rare loss, the Florence High varsity tennis team was not about to lose last Friday’s match at Burlington City. The Flashes not only beat the Blue Devils 5-0, second doubles was not even contested. "I felt bad for Burlington City because all of their (doubles players) did not show…
