Category: archives

  • ‘Breach’

    As a double agent, Chris Cooper portrays not a self-consciously evil man, but a deeply complex, misunderstood one. By: Bob Brown    Breach is based on a true story that few novelists could dream up. It covers the climactic events leading to the capture of America’s most notorious spy, FBI agent Robert Hanssen. Even though the…

  • Mass Appeal

    Princeton Pro Musica’s Frances Fowler Slade says ‘there will be no standing still’ during the ‘Keeping the Faith’ performance. By: Kristin Boyd    Black history has a stew of melodies. Listen closely, and you can trace the sound from chariots rumbling over dirt roads as they carried runaway slaves north to a mother teaching her children…

  • Dawson wins first wrestling tourney

    ATHLETE OF THE WEEK By: Rudy Brandl        Luke Dawson skipped the lower steps on the podium. He went right to the top in his first District 18 Wrestling Championships.    The Hillsborough High junior 171-pounder joined teammates and workout partners Frankie McLaughlin and John Mangini atop the podium Saturday afternoon. While McLaughlin and Mangini know…

  • Pitfalls of Marriage

    Shakespeare ’70 delves into ‘Private Lives.’ By: Scotia W. MacRae    You never know about other people’s marriages. There’s the perfect couple that suddenly splits up — usually one of them decides to follow his/her bliss with someone else, who may or may not be age-appropriate. There’s the warring couple that seems constantly on the brink…

  • Vernon D. Grennen

       Vernon D. Grennen, 77, of Monmouth Junction, died Saturday, Feb. 17, in St. Peter’s Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in New Brunswick, he resided in New Brunswick and Milltown before moving to Monmouth Junction.    He was retired as a heavy equipment operator from Jo-Ed Excavating, New Brunswick. He was a United States Army Veteran, serving…

  • Legislators support tax reform movement

    By: Cara Latham    Legislators in the 30th District are leading a statewide petition drive asking Gov. Jon Corzine to fully fund public education.    Local officials say they think a lot of residents will support the move — sponsored by Assemblymen Ron Dancer and Joe Malone and Sen. Robert Singer — and come out to sign…

  • Vikes can’t survive Tigers’ second run

    By: Rich Fisher    At the end of the second quarter in Monday’s Greater Middlesex Conference girls’ basketball quarterfinal, South Brunswick was furiously climbing a rope to try and emerge from a deep hole it had dug.    The Vikings were nearly out as the half ended.    But when the second half started, South Plainfield walked over…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    From the issue of Feb. 22, 2007. Drastic change needed in Trenton To the editor:     Is it any wonder that we taxpayers in New Jersey pay the highest taxes in the entire country? Why do this governor and legislature continue to tax and spend our state into complete and total bankruptcy?    I have been…

  • $330K needed to save St. Michael’s tract

    Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space and Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association came through with commitments totaling $150,000 By Ruth Luse    Two weeks ago, the D&R Greenway Land Trust needed $500,000 in private donations to meet its goal of preserving the St. Michel’s tract in time for the March 15 funding deadline.    Today, Feb. 22, the…