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  • In the Name of Love

    Brad Little and Barbara McCulloh perform ‘A Broadway Valentine’ to benefit Trenton Community Music School and Stuart Country Day School. By: Anthony Stoeckert    Two days after Valentine’s Day, love will still be in the air at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton. Not just the kind of love that exists between the married couple who…

  • Dunne takes 100 back

    BOYS SWIMMING By: Tim Falls    Hopewell Valley Central High School senior Billy Dunne won the 100-meter backstroke at the Mercer County Championship at Lawrence on Saturday.    Dunne finished first in the event with a time of one minute, 2.24 seconds.    The senior Bulldog led the county in the backstroke by several seconds. Pennington’s Jordan Lieberman…

  • St. Michael’s tract preservation funding goal now at $500,000

    Willard T.C. Johnson Foundation will give $1,000,000 if $500K in private donations is raised by March 15 By Ruth Luse    Thanks to the Willard T.C. Johnson Foundation, the D&R Greenway Land Trust would be $1 million richer and quite a bit closer to its goal of preserving the St. Michael’s tract — if $500,000 more…

  • Teachers union invokes holiday

    By: Stephanie Prokop    CHESTERFIELD — There’s no school on Monday because the teachers union, whose contract expired in June, has told the school district its members would not be there.    The Chesterfield Township Education Association notified the district last week that teachers were going to invoke their legal right to take off for Abraham Lincoln’s…

  • BRHS, NBC wrestlers each notch state tourney win

    By:    Five years ago the Bordentown Regional High boys’ varsity wrestling team had trouble just filling out its roster. But these Scotties have come a long way since then, and on Tuesday night they crushed Keansburg, 48-25, to advance to the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group 1 semi-finals.    With just a very short time to rest,…

  • South Brunswick wins third major title with dominating display at GMC meet

    By: Sean Richards    The South Brunswick High School girls winter track team didn’t just beat the competition at the Greater Middlesex Conference Championships at the Jersey City Armory for the first time since 2001 last Friday night.    The Vikings destroyed it.    Once again displaying its tremendous team depth, South Brunswick piled up 56.5 points to…

  • School board mulls single-sex classes

    All that’s needed is a change in state laws — and students. By: Donna Lukiw    There’s a tested way to improve student scores, but it’s unpopular with kids and currently not legal.    Hillsborough Board of Education member Wolf Schneider, however, is working to change state law to allow gender-specific classes — or at least get…

  • First Aid and Rescue Squad installs new officers

    Dinner — and a guarantee — launch new year. By: Mary Ellen Zangara    After receiving a $10,000 contribution from the Manville First Aid & Rescue Squad Auxiliary during Saturday’s installation dinner, new Squad Chief Rick Straszewski noted the importance of the auxiliary’s help.    "Other rescue squads that I talk to envy us," he said. "We…

  • Josephine Inzetta

       Josephine P. Inzetta, 92, of Deans, died at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, surrounded by family.    Born in New York, she was a Deans resident for more than 69 years as well as a Seaside Park resident.    Ms. Inzetta was a communicant of St. Augustine of Canterbury R.C. Church, former president of the…