Category: archives

  • LCA girls playing for Penn-Jersey title today

    By: Sean Moylan    Following in the rich tradition set forth by the "B and B girls" (Brown and Bodrog) and Samantha Weer and Jackie Steffen, Ashley Nyul and Chloe Bercaw have developed into the Life Center Academy girls’ varsity soccer team’s latest dynamic scoring duo this season. And each netted a pair of goals in…

  • Banged up boys team ran out of gas

    By: David Gurney    It wasn’t supposed to end like this.    Yet, after a 10-1-1 start to the season, misfortune dealt the South Brunswick High School boys soccer a heavy blow.    The Vikings dropped six of their final eight games of the season, including a 3-0 defeat to St. Joseph’s of Metuchen in the Greater Middlesex…

  • Jeffrey Winslow Higginbottom

       Jeffrey Winslow Higginbottom, 61, died Tuesday at his home in New York City.    Born in Worcester, Mass., he moved in 1952 to Pennington, where he spent his childhood.    He received a bachelor’s degree in illustration and design from Syracuse University in 1967 and a master’s degree in scenic and costume design from Yale University in…

  • Historic moment

    Hopewell Halloween Parade Ethan Anderson, 6, of Hopewell, dressed as Ben Franklin, attempts to fly his kite in the wind during the Halloween Parade in Hopewell Borough Sunday afternoon.

  • Time for state to step up

    Couple wants Legislature to OK gay marriage By: Joseph Harvie    Suyin and Sarah Lael were straightening up their Dayton townhouse Monday night, getting decorations ready for Halloween.    Their daughters Tanaj, 7, and Danica Lael, 6, were playing in the front yard, checking to make sure the fake cobwebs were still up on the front hedges.…

  • Josephine Romano

       MANVILLE — Josephine Romano died Oct. 20 at her daughter’s home in Phillipsburg. She was 73.    Born in Atella, Italy, she came to the U.S. in 1949 and lived in Manville most of her life.    Mrs. Romano was predeceased by Cosmo D. Romano; and a daughter, Linda P. Romano.    Surviving are a son, Damian of…

  • Narcy J. Wiencek

       MANVILLE — Narcy J. Wiencek died Oct. 27 at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 75.    Born in Plains, Pa., he lived in Wilkes Barre, Pa., before settling in Manville 48 years ago.    Mr. Wiencek was employed as a shipper for John’s Manville Corporation, retiring in 1986. He was a member of their…

  • NBC, LCA boys lose in soccer playoffs

    By: Sean Moylan    Sometimes a good coach won’t give up on a season even when it’s over. So you’ll have to excuse Tim Tedesco for making hypothetical practice plans for his Northern Burlington County Regional High boys’ soccer team even after it had lost its Central Jersey Group III playoff home opener, 4-1, to Moorestown…

  • Pennington School speaker makes a case against competition

    CommonGround lecture By John Tredrea    Time Magazine has called Alfie Kohn "perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades and test scores."    Mr. Kohn’s 11 books, including "The Homework Myth," "Unconditional Parenting" and "The Case Against Competition," have been translated into Chinese, Malaysian, German, Swedish and a half-dozen other languages. He has…