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  • HVCHS gets swept

    GIRLS TENNIS By: Tim Falls    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls tennis team could only advance so far in the NJSIAA tournaments.    Moorestown knocked Hopewell out of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III team tournament on Tuesday and Kyle Johnson at first singles and Caitlin Dalton and Becca Wolf at first doubles, were eliminated…

  • Helping Hands

    South Brunswick resident Abby Hoffman uses handmade art to give back to a world in need. By: Megan Sullivan    Abby Hoffman first sank her hands into clay more than 30 years ago and discovered an energetic, tactile and responsive art form. Since then, her hands haven’t stopped creating.    While Ms. Hoffman went on to work…

  • Charter seats draw hopefuls

    CHARTER STUDY CANDIDATES By:    Editor’s note: On Nov. 7, voters will be asked whether or not Hillsborough should establish a charter study commission to study the township’s form of government, and simultaneously, who should serve on the commission.    If voters approve the establishment of a commission, then the top five candidates from the 14 below…

  • Bednar’s clutch goals lift girls

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        Mary Bednar scored two huge game-winning goals for the Hillsborough High girls’ soccer team last week.    The senior forward propelled the Lady Raiders (8-3) to victories over Montgomery and Bridgewater-Raritan, two teams ranked in the state’s top 20. Bednar’s goals also enabled the HHS girls to take sole possession…

  • Obituaries

    Nancy R. Ciaramella    HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — Nancy R. Migliaccio Ciaramella, 79, died Sunday in the Compassionate Care Hospice, Trenton.    She was born in Trenton and a lifelong Trenton-Hamilton resident.    Mrs. Ciaramella, along with her late husband Michael, owned and operated the Italian Ice Store in Chambersburg. She retired after 20 years of service as a…

  • Musical Matrimony

    Ian Anderson performs Orchestral Jethro Tull. By: Susan Van Dongen    Ian Anderson, the flute-playing founder of legendary rock band Jethro Tull, has been performing with orchestras for some years now, and has observed that they’re usually comprised of about 50 percent males, 50 percent females.    But for the chamber orchestra he gathered from the New…

  • Art lectures set at St. Matthew’s

    Lectures set Sundays beginning Oct. 15 and running through Nov. 5    Exploring how an artist gathers ideas and emotions and turns them into a finished product will the subject of a series of lectures presented on four successive Sundays at St. Matthew’s Church, Pennington, beginning Oct. 15 and running through Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m.…

  • Rt. 92 EIS is inconclusive

    Army Corps offers no recommendation By: Hillary Parker    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued its final Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed toll road through South Brunswick, but failed to make a recommendation about the project.    The Route 92 EIS, released on Oct. 5 by the New York District of the U.S Army Corps…

  • A show of support

    Friends shave their heads to show solidarity and raise money for cancer patients By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN CITY — Hair on the head will always grow back.    But having the opportunity to shave it all off for the benefit of breast cancer patients is something that doesn’t come around very often.    On Friday, at 4:30…