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  • Response to cartoon justifies publication

    To the editor By:    The letter in the Sept. 21 issue of the Beacon, in which the writer accuses the Hillsborough Beacon and a cartoonist of becoming "active, if likely unwitting supporters of our enemies," is a perfect example of why the cartoon in question is so necessary.    The writer says the cartoon’s references to…

  • On Point

    Just ask … but beware By: Linda McCarthy    I work as a school librarian and I always have to laugh at the amount of unsolicited information kids want to share. It has nothing to do with what they are learning; it’s about things that go on at home. Our principal always offers parents this sage…

  • Resurrecting the bus lines

    Non-public school students get new, safer bus route By: Purvi Desai    UPPER FREEHOLD — Starting on Monday, 41 nonpublic school children who attend St. Gregory the Great and Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic schools in Robbinsville will have buses to take them to school and the buses will stop at safer places, Upper Freehold…

  • Dreams of Vittles

    The paintings of James V. Freeman, on view at Ellarslie, offer a tour of the world the artist sees when he closes his eyes. By: Susan Van Dongen    Dreams are often populated with characters moving in and out of the scenery, staged like some kind of absurd theatrical play or surrealistic film. Dream diarists keep…

  • Volleyball team setting playoff pace

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High girls’ volleyball team continued on its pace to qualify for the state playoffs for the first time in school history with two victories in three matches last week.    Hillsborough sandwiched victories over Watchung Hills and West Windsor Plainsboro South around a loss at North Hunterdon to…

  • Lady Mustangs struggle after two victories

    Team enters week at 2-5 By: John E. Powers        After posting blowout wins against North Plainfield and Bound Brook on the soccer field, the Manville girls ran into some Skyland Conference royalty.    The Lady Mustangs were blanked by unbeaten Somerville 9-0 and Bernards 8-0 to fall to 2-5.    "I think that we had gotten…

  • Students tracking stepsfor ‘worldwide walk’

    Oct. 7 walkathon launches Woods Road School’s health initiative By:Donna Lukiw    It’s a small world, but most wouldn’t want to walk around it.    Woods Road Elementary School students and staff, however, plan to walk the equivalent distance — 24,860 miles — during the course of the school year as part of a health initiative.    The…

  • Injuries hurt with Hopewell’s lack of depth

    FOOTBALL By: John E. Powers    Gradually, the Hopewell Valley High School football team is getting back to full strength.    Unfortunately, the Bulldogs weren’t for their game last Thursday afternoon at Trenton. Hopewell, which plays at unbeaten Hightstown (3-0) Friday night, fell to a bigger and faster and deeper Trenton club 50-14.    The Bulldogs fell behind…

  • Former Princeton resident set to leave for Iraq legal work

    To assist Regime Crime Liaison Office in second trial of Saddam Hussein By: Jake Uitti    When he was 5 years old, Jan Kubicki-Mensz moved to Princeton with his family from New Haven, Conn., where he was born, so that his father could conduct postdoctoral work at Princeton University.    As the years ticked by, Mr. Kubicki-Mensz…