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  • SBHS boys came to the forefront in the post-season

    By: James McKeever    After a disappointing regular season, the South Brunswick High boys bowling team finished the 2006-07 campaign on a high note that left all involved feeling upbeat.    The Vikings put together a 5-11-3 record, which included a 1-1 mark in the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament. This came after a 15-10-1 showing in 2005-06,…

  • Robbinsville boys & girls should hit the track running

    By: Sean Moylan    Usually, varsity track and field teams will use the winter track and field season to prepare for the spring. This year, Robbinsville’s Megan Flynn, Amy Greubel, Brian Alston and Rob Jiggetts used the indoor season to develop into stars.    Flynn, a freshman, is one of Central Jersey Group 1’s better young distance…

  • AHS girls’ lacrosse to build on its success

    By: Kyle Moylan    As he enters his second season on the job as the coach of the Allentown High School varsity girls’ lacrosse team, Jeff Hanford finds himself in an interesting situation.    While the school and most of his girls are new to the sport (its the coach’s second year because that’s as long as…

  • Tim Fenton: a township snowplow operator

    ON THE JOB IN HOPEWELL VALLEY By John Tredrea    Editor’s Note: This is another in the series of portraits of people at work.    Just do it. That’s the deal for snowplow operators when a winter storm hits.    "You have to open the road and keep it open. You can’t get too far behind the storm,…

  • Tubal Eduardo Jr.

       MANVILLE — Tubal Eduardo Jr., 5, died March 13 in a house fire in Manville, in which his mother, Heather Marchie, and sister, Angelina Eduardo, also perished.    He was born in New Brunswick and had lived in Manville.    He attended the Weston Avenue School in Manville.    Surviving are his father, Tubal Sr.; two brothers, Trevor…

  • Annual breakfast salutes longest-serving firefighters

    It’s a tradition nearly as old as Manville itself. By: Mary Ellen Zangara    A Manville tradition nearly as old as the borough itself — the annual Communion breakfast for firemen — was held Sunday at Fire Company No. 3.    The borough’s Exempt Firemen’s Association 65th annual Communion breakfast began with a special Mass at Christ…

  • Kenneth Hale

       SOUTH BOUND BROOK — Kenneth D. "Kippy" Hale died March 16 at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. He was 53.    Born in New Brunswick, he had grown up in Manville and lived in South Bound Brook for 30 years. Mr. Hale had been employed by the Sanitation Department in South Bound Brook for 27 years, and…

  • Two Titusville girls escape snowy mishap without injury

    Car swooshed off the road, down an embankment and into a branch of Woolsey Creek By John Tredrea    Seventeen-year-old Maeve Ryan and the 13-year-old girl who was her passenger must have been counting their blessings late Friday morning.    After what could well have been the most adventurous ride either one of them had ever had,…

  • Coachable Raiders skated to new heights

    Team got hot at right time By: John Beisser        In re-capping the 2006-07 Hillsborough High ice hockey season, it’s impossible to mention all of the superlatives and all of the names of the people who made it happen. But rest assured, it did happen.    What happened was the Raiders, under the direction of first-year…