Category: archives

  • LHS edges Irish in historic opening win

    GIRLS BASKETBALL By: Tim Falls    No win this season may be bigger than the first.    The Lawrence High School girls basketball team upset Notre Dame, 36-34, for the first time last Friday in their Colonial Valley Conference season opener. No matter how far the Cardinals go it will be hard to top their first win.…

  • Cambridge gets assistant principal

    Fifth-grade teacher gets promoted By: Bill Greenwood    The Board of Education approved a new assistant principal for Cambridge School on Monday.    Amanda Rosenberg, a fifth-grade teacher at Brooks Crossing, will take over for Assistant Principal Kelly Huggins, who has accepted a position as principal of Upper Freehold Regional Elementary School in Allentown, Superintendent Gary McCartney…

  • Holiday celebration rules cause stir in community

    Superintendent Judith Ferguson: ‘This is a legal issue, not a policy issue.’ By John Tredrea    New Bear Tavern School December holidays guidelines — which included stipulations that decorations of Santa Claus, Christmas trees and menorahs should not be in the school — have brought forth a wave of discontent among parents.    After parents and caregivers…

  • What a choice!

    What to get for whom? Nine-year-old Tyler Krampf of Hopewell looks at gifts he could buy for loved ones during the Reindeer Lane Children’s Gift Shop at Hopewell Railroad Station Friday.

  • Vikings give Barrio first victory

    By: Rich Fisher    When Beth Barrio looks back upon the first victory of her varsity coaching career, she will see a lot of cool things.    Not the least of which was that her girls listened and performed — which is pretty much every coach’s dream — and rallied for a 56-35 victory over Woodbridge last…

  • The name game

    Residents’ input sought on new school name By: Stephanie Prokop    FLORENCE — The Florence Township School District will take on a whole new persona, literally, after the contest to name the new middle school is completed on Jan. 15.    The entire district is doing a bit of rearranging, due to the renovation of the old…

  • Vikings try to shed their growing gorilla

    By: Ken Weingartner    Mike Slansky feels like he’s watching King Kong, but it has nothing to do with either the 1933 classic film or its recent high budget remake.    This big monkey in this case is on the back of his South Brunswick High boys ice hockey team.    With two losses last week, 3-2 to…

  • Obituaries

    John G. Revay    ROEBLING – John G. Revay, 74, died Saturday at home with his family at his side.    Born in Mount Holly and raised in Roebling, he attended Holy Assumption School and graduated in 1950 from Florence Memorial High School and Played on championship football teams while at Florence High. Mr. Revay spent two…

  • A good night’s sleep

    Mattresses donated to needy family By: Joseph Harvie    Yelena Alter, of the Monmouth Mobile Home Park, will receive a Christmas gift this year that many people take for granted: beds for her family.    Ms. Alter, who is disabled from an accident and unable to work, and her husband, Mitchell, now sleep on a thin mattress…