Category: archives

  • EDITORIAL: Be involved in school years

    EDITORIAL: Parents urged to be part of children’s school lives.    If you were to ask the parents of a South Brunswick High School graduating senior, who head back to school today (Thursday), they might tell you that it seems like only yesterday that their child first headed off to school.    But it’s been 13 years…

  • Community Calendar

    Memorial trip    Saturday, Sept. 9 — The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 899 will sponsor their annual bus trip to the Vietnam Wall and Korean War Memorials in Washington, D.C., leaving from the Bordentown Township Community Center at 9 a.m. and returning by 10 p.m. The trip will include an all-you-can-eat buffet at the Golden…

  • Szabo, Lukacs cash in during Vegas bowling trip

    Manville duo accumulates scholarship funds By: Mary Ellen Zangara        Jeff Szabo took part in the New Jersey Elks Youth Sports Tournament again this year taking a $250 scholarship for his sport of bowling. Szabo was sponsored by the Somerville Elks Lodge No. 1068 for the second year in a row and competed against some…

  • Links will key HHS field hockey team

    Veteran seniors joined by talented sophomores By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High field hockey team will feature an interesting mix of players this season.    Head coach Peach Draper is optimistic that her senior veterans will mesh with a talented group of sophomores who posted a 15-1 record as freshmen last fall. Many of those sophomores…

  • Knowing Bessie convinced me that, like people, dogs have souls

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By John Tredrea    "Bessie was more than just a friend of mine.    We shared the good times with the bad…    Now I’m going down the road to see Bessie.    Oh, I’ll see her soon.    I’m just going down the road to see Bessie.    When I get there, I’m wondering what she’ll do" —…

  • What happened to the Age of Aquarius?

    PARENTING PEARLS by Mae Sakharov By:    When the moon is in the seventh house    and Jupiter aligned with Mars,    then peace will rule the planets    and love will rule the stars.    This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…    July was hot, very hot, and our town was struggling to recover from the results…

  • Stockton needs plan for 63-acre site

    Former My Ben property preserved as open space. By: Linda Seida    STOCKTON — The Borough Council will hold a special meeting Sept. 18 to discuss a proposed management plan for the former My Ben property on Route 29.    The property adjoining the town’s historic three-room elementary school was preserved as open space in 2004 with…

  • Township moves closer to 45-acre land purchase

    Public hearing on bond ordinance set for Sept. 19. By: Lea Kahn    Township Council on Tuesday unanimously introduced a $3.4 million bond ordinance to purchase 45 acres of land on Eggerts Crossing Road.    Lawrence Township is buying 43 acres from the Loveless family for $3.2 million, and an additional 2 acres from neighboring Annie Hvasta…

  • A familiar face takes over Vikes

    McDonald new tennis coach for a team that shows potential By: RIch Fisher    A new era has dawned on South Brunswick High girls tennis, but it brings a lot of other Viking eras along with it.    Nancy McDonald takes over for long-time coach Barbara Whitman, and if the name sounds familiar, it should. McDonald is…