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  • HHS indoor track teams expecting big season

    O’Connor, boys should be among state elite By: Rudy Brandl        Some things will be different but one key element remains the same for this year’s Hillsborough High indoor track and field teams – the goal to win championships.    The Raiders opened the 2006-07 campaign at the Liberty Relays in Jersey City last Friday, one…

  • District fires grid coach

    New direction sought for team By: Bill Greenwood    Mark Prelewicz, head coach of the South Brunswick High School football team, will not be returning to the sidelines next year.    Athletic Director Elaine McGrath said Wednesday the school decided to "go in a new direction" and seek a new head coach for the 2007 season. Mr.…

  • EDITOR’S JOURNAL

    Zen and the art of Patrick Stewart By: John Dunphy    Patrick Stewart is a genius.    Call me a fanboy, but since "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the former Shakespearean wunderkind has impressed me with his acting chops and his ability to take a role and make it identifiably his. Capt. Jean Luc Picard? That’s Patrick…

  • My Turn

    The Christmas spirit means more than a spending contest By: Hank Reeves    How did all this get started — the malls’ parking lots jammed to their outer limits, the dodging of shoppers coming out loaded down with shopping bags as you’re trying to enter the store, the madness starting in September, with the biggest days…

  • Powerful Voices

    Patriots’ Week offers a rich look at the role women took in shaping America. By: Susan Van Dongen    George Washington may be the father of our country, but perhaps he wouldn’t have won so many hearts and minds if it hadn’t been for "the little woman."    Before she was officially the first First Lady, Martha…

  • EDITORIAL

    Legislators earn credit for taking action.    New Jersey residents and taxpayers have had good reason to be critical of their state legislators lately.    After promising to tackle the Garden State’s most pressing problems head-on in 2006, lawmakers have steadily retreated from the ambitious agenda they laid out for themselves at the start of the year.…

  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 21, 2006

    Diversity forbidden? To the editor:     As a Buddhist with a son who thinks for himself, I was very saddened to hear about the decision somewhere in the Hopewell Valley schools to eliminate all religious and secular references to either Christmas or Hanukkah while permitting celebration of "winter."    Christmas is good. The ironies in this…

  • 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…