Category: archives
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Conover, players determined to build girls’ hoop program
By: Sean Moylan "We’re going to take our lumps, but the kids have the desire to turn this program into something," said Sharon Conover, the head coach of the first-year Robbinsville High girls’ varsity basketball team. "I have good athletes. Once they learn the game, they’re going to be good." Although the team is young…
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EDITORIAL: Route 92 still needs death blow
More steps to be taken toward eliminating Route 92 prospect N.J. Turnpike Executive Director Michael Lapolla has finally uttered the magic words. In a letter to the state Department of Environmental Protection dated Dec. 1, Mr. Lapolla writes that "we have decided to cancel the Route 92 project" and "consider all applications pending or on…
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Mustangs completed special, historic football season
Team qualified for state playoffs By: Shawn Tyrrell It seems like just yesterday that the 2006 Manville High School football team was preparing for what players, coaches and fans hoped and thought would be the school’s first winning season in 15 years. In the end it was more than that, as the Mustangs not…
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School aide honored for service
By: Stephanie Prokop CHESTERFIELDEdith Sprague’s life is steeped in her colorful experiences traveling around the country with Borden’s Elsie the Cow during World War II, and is measured by her deep commitment to public service by volunteering at Chesterfield Elementary School. Now others, specifically a teacher and a nurse from Chesterfield Elementary School, are inspired…
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‘Faith is a team sport’
Congregation works and prays together By: Audrey Levine The organ sounded and congregants began to sing as the children walked down the aisle, followed by the Rev. Francis Hubbard and his colleagues. Congregants stood with their families and friends, participating in prayers and readings, and listening to the sermon and bell choir during a Nov.…
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Turnpike cancels Route 92
Focus to go towards Turnpike widening By: Joseph Harvie After years of debates, studies and engineering reports, the N.J. Turnpike Authority has officially canceled the proposed Route 92 project. The N.J. Turnpike Authority, in a Dec. 1 letter to the state Department of Environmental Protection, said it has decided to shift its focus from the…
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‘Tis the season to lend help to these groups
EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse This is one of the few times in the year when most of us tend to open up our wallets and checkbooks willingly for the purpose of giving gifts to loved ones and causes dear to our hearts. While most of us are thinking of holiday gifts for family and friends,…
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Buzz in the Halls
By: Pam Koharchik Teenagers often complain in their angst that "no one understands" them. Of course, some of us probably don’t want to (rimshot, please!). But for a small population of students, this is a valid complaint. The ESL (English as a Second Language) students are faced with a difficult challenge in not only attempting…
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NEHS teams win openers in bowling
By: Kyle Moylan Mike Search came into this season excited about the prospects for his bowling teams. And certainly nothing the New Egypt boys or girls did in the regular-season opener on Monday changed the coach’s mind. Both the boys and girls defeated Maple Shade, 4-0, to get the season rolling in the right direction.…
