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  • HHS swimmers take aim at county foes

    Boys’ meet will be clash of titans By: John E. Powers        This year’s Somerset County Swimming Championships are shaping up as a meet to remember and Hillsborough High School should be right in the middle of it.    The boys’ event will be highlighted by four schools currently in the state Top 20 in most…

  • After suffering first defeat, South makes Panthers pay

    By: David Gurney    All it took the South Brunswick High School boys basketball team was four minutes against Perth Amboy. Four minutes to bury the disappointment of suffering its first defeat of the season last Saturday against Watching Conference foe Elizabeth.    A 14-0 run by the Vikings in the opening 320 seconds of the game…

  • EDITORIAL: Everybody in the pool

    Grant will bring anticipated pool to local YMCA    The South Brunswick Family YMCA received some good news last week that also should be seen as good news for the entire township.    The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders announced a $3 million grant to the organization (to be distributed through the township) that will allow…

  • Township to form committee, sans Republicans

    Citizens group to explore taxpayer-funded campaigns. By: Lea Kahn    Township Council will go ahead with plans to form a citizens committee to explore financing municipal political campaigns with taxpayer dollars, despite the Lawrence Township Republican Party’s unwillingness to participate.    Municipal Clerk Kathy Norcia told the council at its Jan. 16 meeting that Republican officials do…

  • Living the moment, regardless of political stripe

    Editor’s Journal – The Lawrence Ledger (01.25.07) By: John Dunphy    Twenty miles from Syracuse, N.Y., wending my way north Saturday evening on Interstate-81, I ran smack dab into whiteout conditions.    Indeed, upon arriving at the Zen Center of Syracuse Hoen-ji, I was struck immediately by just how much colder it was from ’round these parts.…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Washington Avenue resident John S. Ziolowski, 51, was charged with filing a false application to obtain a firearm at 2:14 p.m. Jan. 15.    Police said Mr. Ziolowski applied for a handgun permit to buy and carry the weapon but failed to disclose he had been convicted of a disorderly persons offence more that 15…

  • Philip Ahern

       HILLSBOROUGH — Philip Joseph Ahern died Jan. 19 at home. He was 64.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Long Island, N.Y., before moving to Hillsborough in 1979.    Mr. Ahern worked for NJ Health and Hospital Association in Princeton as a Network Administrator.    Surviving are his wife, Carol Ann (Hennington) Ahern; a son, Scott…

  • Raiders skate through rigorous stretch of action

    Team plays better than 1-1-1 week By: John Beisser        The mixed bag of results did not accurately reflect just how well the Hillsborough High ice hockey team performed in its three games last week. A 1-1-1 week left the Raiders, who entered the week ranked No. 19 in the state, with an 8-5-1 season…

  • Upcoming art auction to aid 325th anniversary events

    By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN CITY — The 325th Anniversary Committee will be hosting an art auction on Feb. 2 to benefit events planned for residents in the city and township this year.    It will feature not only traditional paintings, but also prints of seascapes, landscapes, contemporary art, traditional art, impressionist art, Americana-inspired art, as well…