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  • ‘Briz’ brings Black History Month to Lawrence Library next week

    "Freedom’s Glory" will be presented at Lawrence branch of the Mercer County Library on Darrah Lane at 7 p.m. Feb. 1. By: Lea Kahn    David Conard has been writing and singing about politics, love and other topics for most of his life, but he never thought he would write songs about slavery.    All that changed…

  • A third siezes victory

    BOYS SWIMMING By: Tim Falls    Lawrence’s Chris Turnbull had a coaching dilemma at the end of the Cardinals’ boys’ swim meet against West Windsor-Plainsboro North on Monday.    Turnbull had to decide whether to go for the win or play it safe and hope to tie the Knights.    With a winning streak still on the line…

  • SBHS track likes Lavino

    By: Sean Richards    The South Brunswick High School winter track team has already shown it can take a long bus ride and post some outstanding results. Put the Vikings on a fast track near home and you know good things are going to happen.    Such was the case on Saturday when South Brunswick enjoyed a…

  • Now that’s good news

    TV news crew checks out Scouts’ fundraising wrestling match. By: Mary Ellen Zangara    Friday night’s fundraising wrestling match at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2290 was "must-see TV" for Manville’s Cub Scout Pack 193 and Boy Scout Troop 193.    That’s because the event, which drew hundreds to the post, was featured in a segment…

  • Kevin Tamulevicz

       Kevin J. Tamulevicz, 54, of Monmouth Junction, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Jersey City, he was a customer service representative for the Star-Ledger.    His parents, John and Florence Tamulevicz, are deceased. He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Sue A. DeCarlo Tamulevicz; two daughters, Jennifer…

  • Florence girls’ hoop now 9-2

    By: Sean Moylan    "I see something in these seven players, but I’m not sure they see it in themselves yet," said Vince Cipriano, whose playoff-bound Florence Township Memorial High girls’ varsity basketball team recorded two more easy wins (over Burlington City and New Egypt) this past week.    The Flashes constructed a gorgeous 20-4 third quarter…

  • Basketball success is family tradition for the Wandishins

    By: Rich Fisher    Ashley Wandishin doesn’t have the ferocious rebounding prowess of a Susie Miller, or the diverse offensive arsenal of a Jordan Confessore or the ball handling skills of a Janay Barnett.    But if you take a little bit from each of those players and mold them into one, you would get Wandishin.    "She’s…

  • Meetings explain TDR process

    By: Stephanie Prokop    CHESTERFIELD — The county and township will hold another set of public information meetings starting this Saturday in preparation for an upcoming auction of farmers’ credits in the township’s Transfer of Development Right (TDR) program.    The first meeting will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday and the second will be on Thursday,…

  • New Egypt boy bowlers knock down a ranked team

    By: Kyle Moylan    For the first time in the history of the program, the New Egypt High boys’ bowling team defeated a ranked opponent.    Bowling at Thunderbird on Wednesday, Jan. 17, New Egypt defeated Ewing, 3-1, in a battle of division leaders in the Burlington Scholastic League.    "We didn’t even bowl very well the first…