Category: archives

  • Swim teams indicative of SBHS winter wonderland

    By: Sean Richards    In a year in which the rising South Brunswick High School swimming team accomplished all kinds of firsts in the history of its program, here’s yet another.    For the initial time, both the boys and girls qualified for the NJSIAA team sectionals.    In the boys case, it earned the No. 7 seed…

  • 6 vying for seats on board

    11 days remain to file petitions By: Joseph Harvie    Six residents, including three incumbents, have signed up so far to run for three, three-year school board seats in the April 17 election.    Incumbents Harry Delgado, Deborah Taylor and Anna Tupe are all seeking re-election and Surabhi Agarwal, Susan Santowasso and Mahesh "Mac" Shah have also…

  • Valentine’s Day storm ices area

    By: Cara Latham    As the first significant winter storm this season made its way across the area Wednesday, local schools were forced to close for the day.    But police said they braced for the storm, and that luckily, its impact wasn’t too bad.    Police in Springfield, Mansfield and North Hanover said Wednesday morning they were…

  • Actors show how to resolve student conflicts

    A George Street Playhouse group performed a play focused on the kinds of issues middle school students understand. By: Donna Lukiw    Hillsborough Middle School seventh-grade students tested their ideas on how to resolve conflicts, watching four actors from the George Street Playhouse perform at the school on Monday.    The actors from the New Brunswick theater…

  • EDITORIAL: Report cards show schools’ improvement

    Community involvement can help report card scores to rise further    South Brunswick students achieve at rates that are better than the state average, but slightly below their peers in similar school districts.    That assessment, however, is just one element of the report cards issued by the state for each school in New Jersey. The report…

  • EDITORIAL

    Good news in Manville’s report cards.    The state’s annual report card for schools was issued last week, and we encourage Manville parents and residents to comb through the statistics.    If they do, they’ll see the efforts by officials to upgrade classroom materials and curricula in the last few years is beginning to bear fruit.    While…

  • Hopewell wins Mercer County crown

    INDOOR TRACK By: Tim Falls    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls indoor track team demonstrated their depth.    The Bulldogs had top finishers in all but one event at the Mercer County Championships at the Toms River John Bennett Indoor Track Facility on Sunday.    The multitude of medallist helped Hopewell Valley claim its third straight…

  • A difficult assignment

    School budgets face more uncertainty. By: Donna Lukiw    Like a homework assignment from your worst math teacher, local school administrators are struggling to solve an equation with too many variables — this year’s school budgets.    School administrators are used to waiting to learn how much aid the state will be sending until after the governor’s…

  • Letters to the editor

    Candidates urge voters to polls To the editor:    Bordentown Township Fire District No. 2 residents should vote Jake Archer and Matt Dillon to the Board of Fire Commissioners this Saturday at Derby Fire House in order to build a superior fire service for Bordentown.    These candidates are District 2 taxpayers who want to provide residents…