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  • How good was this team?

    Debators sure to discuss Vikes ranking in school history By: David Gurney    PISCATAWAY—The 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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,"…

  • On Point

    Navigating the time change By: Linda McCarthy    Unlike most people, I have an extraordinarily hard time adjusting to any time change. It doesn’t matter if we’re springing ahead or falling back; I’m confused until the next switch, and then it starts all over again.    It’s not from lack of trying; I want to be in…

  • Town joins fight for big-rig ban

    Lawrence has formally asked the state Department of Transportation to remove Route 206 from the New Jersey Access Networks for Trucks. By: Lea Kahn    Township officials have formally asked the state Department of Transportation to remove Route 206 in Lawrence from the New Jersey Access Networks for Trucks.    The township filed its request Feb. 23…

  • Local boys’ basketball teams counting on strong leaders

    By: Sean Moylan    Herman Johnson is a deep and thoughtful man who has always loved coaching the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity basketball team. And only his family knows how hard he works on making the Greyhounds the best young men and basketball players they can be.    Recently he has noticed that…