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  • School district not serious about stopping bullies

    To the editor By:     B-U-L-L-Y-I-NG, it should be a four-letter word.    It has become an epidemic in this country and this township. How many times can you be told you are hated? Should other students be allowed to go into your belongings? How about being threatened with physical harm?    Most readers would be surprised…

  • Charges filed in assault

    Two teens charged after hitting man on head with a wooden baseball bat. By: Joseph Harvie    Police charged a 14-year-old township boy and a 15-year-old Sayreville boy at 4 p.m. Friday with the Feb. 27 attempted robbery of a Royal Oaks man, who was hit on the head with a baseball bat, police said.    The…

  • Auten Road school principal sets retirement

    Hal Blackstone, who plans to travel, work in his garden and substitute teach after he retires in July, has worked in the school district for 31 years. By: Donna Lukiw    Hal Blackstone, principal of Auten Road Intermediate School (ARIS), plans on traveling, gardening and maybe even substitute teaching after he retires in July.    After working…

  • Central Jersey is vanquished by one hearty band of Vikings

    Basketball team wins third sectional title in school history By: David Gurney    WOODBRIDGE—Less than two weeks ago, the South Brunswick High School boys basketball team was questioning its own sanity after a spellbinding three-point loss to underdog Cardinal McCarrick in the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament semifinals.    On Monday, an anxious student body filtered its way…

  • EDITORIAL

    Poverty divides New Jersey.    Peter Wise has spent the last eight and one half years fighting the good fight.    As director of the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen since 1998 until his retirement on March 2, he oversaw an expansion of services that has allowed the facility to double the number of patrons it serves and…

  • Tribal Dance

    The Thunderbird Dancers include narratives from the Cherokee, Winnebago, Choctaw and Hopi tribes. By: Susan Van Dongen    The trends of smudging, shape-shifting workshops and shamanic journeying may be interesting and even healing to non-Native Americans, but Louis Mofsie, of Hopi and Winnebago descent, says Native Americans find it a little annoying.    "It’s the commercialization of…

  • Lillian Baum Tenney

       Lillian Baum Tenney, 85, of Princeton, died Friday, Feb. 23, at home.    Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she was a Princeton resident since 1953.    A psychiatrist, she maintained a private practice in Lawrence Township and also taught and practiced psychiatry at Rutgers University.    She graduated two years ahead of her class at Walton High School,…

  • Small World

    The Arts Council of Princeton looks to its new building for the theme of the ‘Small Works Exhibition.’ By: Pat Summers    With nearly 90 pieces on view in the tiny conTEMPORARY gallery, it’s quite a mix, about a quarter of which happen to be mixed media works. Both sizes and prices range from miniscule to…

  • Recognition after 75 years as a Scout

    Robert Inglis first became a Scout in 1932. By: Lea Kahn    Robert Inglis can scarcely remember when he was not involved in the Boy Scouts of America, which is not surprising since he has been part of the organization for 75 years.    Mr. Inglis, a former Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 28 in Lawrence, was…