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  • Lady Raiders get defensive in victory

    HHS girls clamp down in fourth quarter to win By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team learned the value of defense in Saturday’s 58-46 victory over Westfield.    After looking slow and sluggish on defensive early in the game, the Lady Raiders turned it up a notch in the fourth quarter to defeat…

  • Book Notes

    Thunderstruck: A non-fiction page-turner By: Joan Ruddiman    Erik Larson has a new book out. His fans have come to expect that this master of narrative non-fiction will produce a page-turner from the driest of archives. In "Isaac’s Storm" (Vintage, 2000) Larson pinned us in our seats with meteorological mayhem as a hurricane, a man and…

  • MTHS winning games at blistering pace so far

    By: David Gurney    Monroe Township High School boys basketball coach Bob Turco tends to clump the season up into sections of four games.    Winning three of four, a .750 winning percentage, and any team will be in good shape.    But who knew the Falcons would stay so true to that philosophy.    After starting the season…

  • LHS falls to late surge

    BOYS BASKETBALL By: Tim Falls    Scoring 11 points in the second half isn’t enough.    It certainly wasn’t against Hightstown on Tuesday.    The Lawrence High School varsity boys basketball team remained winless and fell to 0-9 after the Rams shutdown the Cardinals’ scoring in the second half to overcome a 28-21 halftime lead. Hightstown scored 31…

  • South Brunswick girls do it again

    Vikings claim second straight title by winning GMC Relays By: Sean Richards    What better way to celebrate winning a prestigious track meet than by doing it again?    Yes, the South Brunswick girls track team struck it rich again over the weekend by capturing the Middlesex County Relays at the Jersey City Armory. What’s more, it…

  • Falcons look strong at Christmas Relays

    By: Sean Richards    The Monroe Township High School winter track team certainly made its presence known at the Christmas Relays at Lehigh University over the holidays.    Competing in a loaded-up meet on Dec. 27, Monroe had a host of strong performances from some familiar names as it prepared for a couple of big meets this…

  • Roberta DeSantis says ‘everyone is an artist’

    Artist teaches classes at Cambridge School in Pennington By John Tredrea    A prolific and talented oil painter, 25-year-old Roberta DeSantis is a hard-working art teacher as well.    She teaches over 20 classes a week at the Cambridge School in Pennington. The school, in recently completed new quarters in the Straube Center, primarily serves "students with…

  • Station worker fears for safety

    John’s Truck Stop, on Brunswick Pike, has been robbed three times (and had a $15,000 truck stolen from the property) since November. By: Lea Kahn    The cars and trucks come and go at John’s Truck Stop, a gasoline station neatly tucked away between the Quaker Bridge Mall overpass and the Toys ‘R Us store on…

  • New left-turn bans should help make Route 31 safer

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Township and state Department of Transportation (DOT) officials delivered a New Year’s gift to drivers using Route 31 between I-95 and the Pennington Circle when they announced last week that left turns onto Route 31 from Diverty Road, Orchard Avenue and Crest Avenue would be prohibited once the necessary signs…