Category: archives
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Raiders skating into key stretch
Division playoffs coming up By: John Beisser An easy victory, sandwiched between a pair of ties, left the Hillsborough High ice hockey team sporting a 9-5-3 record on the eve of a pair of major tests. The Raiders record a 2-2 tie vs. Summit on Jan. 26, which featured a sterling performance turned in…
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Editor’s Journal (02.08.07)
Truth is not convenient – neither is taking action By: John Dunphy I am inexcusably ignorant. This is a fact I am comfortable with. Not because I am ignorant, but because I know I am. And I know I have to do something about it, lest the guilt ruin me for any interaction with the…
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New Egypt girls advance to Group I bowling final
By: Kyle Moylan When New Egypt’s girls’ bowling team was defeated by Bordentown for the Freedom Division championship, Warrior Coach Mike Search was quick to point out this was one of those times when you just gave a lot of credit to the winners. "We’re a good team," Search noted, stressing the fact Bordentown just…
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Letters to the editor
Know the facts on historic manor To the editor: I would like to make some clarifications and comments in regard to the two articles about our property ("Minding their Manor" and "Master Plan focuses on growth") which appeared in the Jan. 25 Messenger-Press. The property has been referred to as the "anchor" of the…
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Roskos win MCT
DIVING By: Tim Falls Danica Roskos repeated as champion in the Mercer County Diving Championships last Wednesday. The Hopewell Valley Central High School sophomore is looking forward to representing the Bulldogs in the NJSIAA state championships on Feb. 27. Roskos was ineligible for the state competition last year when she dove for Hun and competed…
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Inspiration on ice
English teacher’s book to be featured at hockey game By: Stephanie Prokop BORDENTOWN CITY Some writers find inspiration in exotic places, others find it in their front yards. For one Bordentown seventh-grade English teacher, that happens that every winter, when she and her family construct an ice-skating rink in the front yard of their…
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Hillsborough poet to read at S. Brunswick library
Charles Johnson to read Sunday By: Hillsborough resident Charles H. Johnson, a 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist for his book, "Tunnel Vision," and first-place winner of the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, will read and share his thoughts about poetry when South Brunswick’s monthly series of Sunday poetry readings continues on Sunday at the South…
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Raven girls’ basketball getting more competitive
By: Sean Moylan Midway through the third quarter of Monday’s home contest versus Pemberton, Robbinsville High girls’ varsity basketball head coach Sharon Conover sensed there was something far different about this game. "I was thinking to myself that I had to save my timeouts," said Conover, who, in her other games, had primarily used her…
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Meeting slated on mercury removal
Monday’s public meeting at municipal building By: A meeting to discuss plans to move 2,617 metric tons of mercury out of Hillsborough has been scheduled for Monday at the municipal complex. The meeting will be hosted by Rep. Mike Ferguson, R-6th, and will include a presentation by Cornel Holder, the administrator of the Pentagon’s Defense…
