Category: archives
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Manville building for wrestling future
Numbers climbing in youth feeder system By: Rudy Brandl It’s been a long time since Manville High crowned a Somerset County, District 18 or Region 5 wrestling champion. The Mustangs also haven’t qualified for the Central Jersey Group 1 team playoffs since 2000. With participation numbers booming on the youth levels, that trend could change…
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LETTERS
From the issue of March 15, 2007. Appreciation for support To the editor: The recent display of respect, love and friendship shown at the wake, funeral and Mass of Janet Phillips was overwhelming. Living in South Brunswick for 40 years develops many dear friends. Our thanks also goes to the South Brunswick Police Department…
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Police, Township Committee recognize two ‘Top Cops’
Officer David Fisher and Officer Russell Wilde received the awards. By: Purvi Desai When Hillsborough police corporals and lieutenants are asked who are the best Patrol Division officers, one name comes up year after year: 15-year veteran David Fisher, who recently received one of the township’s annual Top Cop awards for the third time. "I’m…
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How good was this team?
Debators sure to discuss Vikes ranking in school history By: David Gurney PISCATAWAYThe debate will rage on for years to come, between the older generation and the new: was this year’s South Brunswick High School boys basketball team the greatest in school history? They didn’t collect the overall state championship like the Group I championship…
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Vikes end season (how else?) in style
By: Sean Richards It only figures arguably the greatest season in the history of South Brunswick High School winter track would end with yet another outstanding performance. Competing at Nationals in both Maryland and New York over the weekend, the Vikings came up with a whole host of tremendous showings against the very best in…
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More left-turn prohibitions coming for Route 31
Signs will be posted in the next few weeks By John Tredrea Left turns in and out of commercial driveways on Route 31 between I-95 and the Pennington Circle are about to become illegal. Signs to that effect are expected to be posted in the next few weeks, Hopewell Township Mayor Vanessa Sandom said Tuesday.…
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Keeping parents and teenagers connected
Online newsletter aims to ease the sting of post-adolescent growing pains By: Cara Latham MILLSTONE Around the time her oldest child was in elementary school, township resident Mary Friedman started realizing that most parenting magazines about potty training toddlers and getting children to sleep at night didn’t really apply anymore. Knowing firsthand how communication…
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Petro Sirman
HILLSBOROUGH Petro Sirman died March 8 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 81. Born in Harasymiw, Ukraine, he came to the U.S. in 1952 living in Manville before moving to Hillsborough. Mr. Sirman was a communicant of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hillsborough and a member of the Ukrainian Congress Committee.…
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Money to extend sewers approved
Mountain View Road area residents ‘ecstatic’ about plans. By: Purvi Desai After fighting more than a decade for a sewer line extension to their neighborhood off Mountain View Road, news that the Township Committee plans to include money to pay for it in this year’s budget spread quickly in among the neighbors. "We’re all ecstatic,"…
