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  • Greyhounds grind out 16-0 victory

    By: Sean Moylan    Last year the Northern Burlington County Regional High School varsity football team opened with a phenomenal win over Holy Cross, only to grow a bit overconfident and lose a couple of games it should have won.    This year the Greyhounds won their opener again as they beat the Pirates, 16-0, at Cinnaminson…

  • Boys Mancini’s OT goal lifts AHS to big win

    By: Kyle Moylan    It would probably take a poll of former players and a historical analysis to officially call Allentown’s 3-2 win over Steinert High last Friday the biggest one in the history of the boys’ soccer program at the school. The mere fact it’s even up for consideration, however, should let everyone know this…

  • Board member pans consolidation

    Financial gain not what it seems according to Abschutz By: Lacey Korevec    School board President Martin Abschutz said Monday that he doesn’t agree with creating a centralized, county-based school administration, or with handing labor negotiations over to the county.    Both issues were discussed at the special legislative committee meeting held Sept. 6, he said.    Mr.…

  • Scoring no worry for Vikes

    By: David Gurney    There were question marks aplenty heading into the season for the South Brunswick boys soccer team.    The defense, the youth, the late-season setbacks of last season.    How would they bounce back? How would these problems be addressed?    Some questions remain, but one question won’t need to be asked, at least for the…

  • New LHS principal ‘looking out for lost students’

    David Roman went from dropout to administrator. By: Lea Kahn    Some might say it’s uncommon for a high school principal to randomly check students’ notebooks to find out if they have done their homework.    But then it’s not every high school dropout who goes back to school and works his way up to become a…

  • My Turn

    Autumn makes for great canoeing weather By: Hank Reeves    I was just thinking with all this rain how good it would make the canoeing this fall. Autumn is the best time of the year to canoe. For those who would like to give it a try, there are canoe rentals in the area. Canoe trails…

  • City moves to accept land

    PSE&G donation would join open space plan By: Cara Latham    BORDENTOWN CITY — The Bordentown City Commission on Monday introduced an ordinance that would officially accept a small parcel of property along Blacks Creek from PSE&G.    The property, off Lime Kiln Alley along Blacks Creek, was given to the city by PSE&G and will be…

  • Evelyn Brosnan

       MANVILLE — Evelyn (Wargo) Andreychik Brosnan died Sept. 8 at the New Jersey Eastern Star Nursing Home located in the Finderne section of Bridgewater. She was 75.    Born in Somerset, she lived in Bound Brook before moving to Manville 55 years ago.    Mrs. Brosnan was a homemaker.    She is predeceased by her husbands, William Brosnan,…

  • ‘Frankenstein’

    Off-Broadstreet Theatre presents Tim Kelly’s stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. By: Stuart Duncan    Everybody knows something about the legend of Frankenstein and his monster. Mary Shelley’s original novel was published in 1818, but was not much of a success until five years later, when an employee of the English Opera House adapted a melodrama…