Category: archives
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Holiday ‘Visitors’
Princeton Center for Yoga & Health will present a program on ‘spirits’ who come to visit. By: Susan Van Dongen With shows like John Edward’s Crossing Over and the NBC series Medium, TV viewers are seeing more and more "mediums" these days. So-called mediums do not necessarily look like the elderly lady with a crystal…
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Krystyna Skorupa
MANVILLE Krystyna (Puzio) Skorupa died Nov.18 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 78. Born and raised in Goscieradow, Poland, she had been a resident of Manville since 1966. Ms. Skorupa was a homemaker. She was a communicant of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and belonged to the Altar Rosary Society. She is…
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Hopewell sophomore finishes 17th
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY By: Tim Falls Hopewell Valley Central High School sophomore Clare Buck had to bear the brunt of a lot of responsibility this season. Buck took over as the Bulldog’s lead runner after the loss of senior Megan Fitzpatrick to mononucleosis. The sophomore never shied away from the tasks asked of her and…
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Fall Ball III keeps the ball rolling
Foundation makes $35,000 The third annual Fall Ball held on Friday yielded $35,000 for the Recreation Foundation of Hopewell Valley. A capacity crowd at Amalfi’s Cuisine bid on 100 Silent Auction items, including sports tickets and memorabilia, theater tickets, spa treatments and other recreational items. Dinner and dancing to The Maggi Hill Band was followed…
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School district gets awards for communications efforts
JoAnn Meyer excels again! By John Tredrea Kudos for JoAnn Meyer, Valley school district director of communication and development, were on tap at Monday night’s school board meeting. Board President Kim Newport thanked Ms. Meyer "for the excellent work she has done for the district" that has netted Hopewell Valley four first-place and two second-place…
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SB Pee Wees, Junior Pee Wees win state cheer championship
By: Rich Fisher After an autumn of supporting their football teams during the boys’ competition, the South Brunswick PAL Pop Warner cheerleaders got to do a little competing of their own. And oh, how they competed. The Vikings won not one, but two Garden State Cheerleading championships at the Sovereign Bank Arena on Nov. 11,…
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A boys club no more
The 65-student RoboRaiders team at Hillsborough High now includes 23 girls. By: Donna Lukiw Building robots isn’t just for nerds anymore. At Hillsborough High School, the 65-student RoboRaiders team has been growing and increasingly, the ethnically-diverse team is gaining in the number of girls participating. Last year, the team had 44 students participating, but…
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Blood drive exceeds service’s expectations
The school and community collected 58 pints and had to turn people away because New Jersey Blood Services ran out of collection bags. By: Donna Lukiw Hillsborough Elementary School had one goal for Friday’s blood drive they wanted to collect more than 44 pints of blood from the district’s residents. But when the donors…
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Injuries could not negate a season worth of positives
By: David Gurney South Brunswick High School boys varsity soccer coach Chris Hayston doesn’t like to get caught up in the ‘what ifs’ and ‘what could have been.’ Even if it’s easy to do that after injuries and bad luck caught up to a team that started the season 10-1-1 and was eventually ranked in…
