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  • EDITORIAL

    School board’s ban on rentals is an empty option.    The Board of Education plans to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.    The district is considering a change to its policy on the use of school facilities that would ban groups identified as terrorist organizations by the federal Department of State or the federal Department of…

  • Try This on For Size

    Three installation artists comment on the social and emotional impact of clothing. By: Ilene Dube    Did video kill painting?    Dress Code, an exhibit at The College Art Gallery at The College of New Jersey, seems to take up that challenge. Curator Liselot van der Heijden, a member of the art faculty at the college, recently…

  • Vikes rally to defeat Brick in CJ IV tournament opener

    By: David Gurney   &nbspThe score: Brick 26, South Brunswick 20.   &nbspThe time: 4:07 to go in the third quarter.   &nbspAt this juncture, it was all in the balance according to South Brunswick High School boys basketball coach Chris Balent.   &nbspThe dream season, the top 20 ranking, the top three seed in the sectionals, all on…

  • HHS boys’ hoops team advances in state playoffs

    Lawson, Worth combine for 32 points, 29 rebounds. By: Kyle Moylan    HIGHTSTOWN — Tim Lawson wasn’t looking for any applause or pats on the back for scoring 16 points in the Hightstown High boys’ basketball team’s 64-50 win over Long Branch in the opener of the Central Jersey Group III playoffs Thursday night.    The way…

  • Never Predictable

    Gifted director Abbas Kiarostami, whose best movies seep under your skin, visits Princeton for a screening and discussion. By: Elise Nakhnikian    "I don’t like to engage in telling stories," says Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in an interview packaged on the DVD of his masterful 2000 feature, The Wind Will Carry Us. "I don’t like to…

  • District eyes busing to ease crowding

    By: Stephanie Prokop    CHESTERFIELD — The Board of Education unanimously approved the superintendent’s recommendation Tuesday to send some students to the Clarence B. Lamb School in North Hanover next year due to lack of space in the current elementary school building.    Referendums asking voters to approve a second elementary school building in the district were…

  • Cardinals challenge Mahwah in playoffs

    ICE HOCKEY By: Tim Falls    By now the Lawrence High School Ice Hockey team has either made history or is history.    The Cardinals traveled to play Mahwah in the first-round of the NJSIAA posteason last night (Wednesday).    A win would have been quite the achievement for the Lawrence ice hockey program. A loss would have…

  • Florence boys’ basketball wins Group I state opener

    By: Sean Moylan    Last week’s consecutive losses to Hamilton West and Holy Cross didn’t matter. They were merely warm-ups to get ready for the "real thing."    For the Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity basketball team, the real thing came on Tuesday night when it blasted Bound Brook 56-45 in the Central Jersey Group…

  • Saliba’s epic season concludes

    WRESTLING By: Mike Molaro    It’s been said that one chapter’s ending is another chapter’s beginning.    Such is the case with Hopewell Valley Central High School’s George Saliba.    The Bulldog junior 189-pounder saw his outstanding season end at last weekend’s NJSIAA Region V Wrestling Championships at Hunterdon Central High. While he looks back on a record-setting…