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  • Manderski gets revenge

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl    Mark Manderski enjoyed a little revenge in last week’s Manville High wrestling match at North Plainfield.    The MHS senior heavyweight posted a 4-2 victory over Kevin Romero to avenge two prior one-point losses. Romero edged Manderski in a 4-3 overtime bout in the Somerset County Tournament in December and also…

  • Simon Boyar to perform premiere at Lincoln Center

    Friday’s concert puts HHS grad at musical forefront By:    Hillsborough High School graduate Simon Boyar will be joining the American Symphony Orchestra on Friday night for a premiere performance at the Lincoln Center in New York.    The premiere of Harold Farberman’s "Double Concerto for Violin and Percussion" is the only known work for violin and…

  • EDITORIAL

    End easy out for suburbs’ housing duty.    A recent state appeals court ruling has thrown New Jersey’s affordable-housing policy into a state of considerable disarray.    Then again, that’s pretty much where it’s been for the past three decades.    The three-judge appellate panel threw out the latest formula devised by the state’s Council on Affordable Housing…

  • HHS swimmers set for team playoffs

    Kuehne dominates at Skyland meet By:John E. Powers        For the second time in just five days, the Hillsborough High School boys’ swimming team finished second to Bridgewater-Raritan – this time at the Skyland Conference Championships at Montgomery High School. But this time, the Raiders had company.    Defending champion Bridgewater-Raritan finished with 281 points last…

  • Valley citizens need to help raise $500K

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    While we listen to and/or read — with great frustration — the reports about tax reform talks going on in Trenton, it is comforting, at least, to know that locally we actually can do something about issues that affect our lives.    And that we can count on people of good will…

  • Battling big rigs

    Kingston residents want trucks off Rt. 27 By: Joseph Harvie    Kingston residents are upset about a state Department of Transportation proposal that would allow large tractor-trailers to drive on Route 27.    "We’re extremely concerned that large trucks, ones that are 102 inches wide and the piggy-back double-combinations, would be coming through on Route 27 in…

  • Lawrence swimmers overachieve

    BOYS SWIMMING By: Tim Falls    The Lawrence High School boys swim team overachieved on Saturday.    The Cardinals won the closest Mercer County Championship in the history of the event, edging Notre Dame by under two points with a record-setting finish in the 400-meter freestyle relay final.    Like Lawrence has done several times this season, clutch…

  • Pennington eyes parking restrictions for The Boulevard

    A distance of 242 feet is covered by the proposed prohibition of parking on the west side of The Boulevard By John Tredrea    Pennington Borough Council voted unanimously Monday to introduce an ordinance prohibiting parking on the west side of a small street known as the South Main Street Extension or The Boulevard.    The proposal…

  • Eco-groups seek local attention to environment

    "An Inconvenient Truth" will be shown tonight at 7:30 at Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road. Discussion will follow. The event is free and open to the public. By: John Dunphy    The truth is not always convenient.    Such is the message of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Academy Award-nominated documentary about climate change, specifically global warming,…