Category: archives
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New look for older schools
Elementary renovations completed. By: Lacey Korevec Deborah Buonocore admired her new classroom at Monmouth Junction School with a huge smile on her face. "These are my exact footprints of where I’ve been for the past nine years," the fifth-grade teacher said Friday. "But now I have to pinch myself because I have walls. It’s amazing."…
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Yeshiva may file suit against borough
By: Cara Latham ROOSEVELT The lawyer for an Orthodox Jewish school is vowing to sue the borough if it refuses to rezone the school so that it can expand in the future. For more than a year, residents of the borough have been crossing swords over whether Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah, an Orthodox Jewish school…
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Boys soccer team can score goals but need to prevent them
By: Dave Gurney The South Brunswick High boys varsity soccer team won’t be afraid to go on the offensive this season. Returning 13 players, including three of their top four scorers from 2005, the Vikings should feel just fine attacking the net. But the question remains how will the Vikings respond to losing 80…
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Principal is supporting a new team
Eagles fan will be leading students at Indian Fields School. By: Lacey Korevec Though he may spend a few Sundays this fall at Lincoln Financial Field supporting his favorite team, the Philadelphia Eagles, 35-year-old Mark Daniels will spend Mondays through Fridays leading a different team this year. Starting today (Thursday), Mr. Daniels replaces Andrea Orlando,…
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MHS boys’ soccer team ready for new challenges
Shambach switches over to guide Mustangs By: John Beisser There are equal parts excitement and change surrounding the Manville High boys’ soccer team as the Mustangs complete their final paces in preparation for the 2006 season, which begins with a road match at Princeton Day School on Friday. For starters, the Mustangs feature a…
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Blindness won’t keep local teen from having bright future
Hopewell Borough boy participated in a science academy program with the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore By Audrey Levine It was 2 a.m. when Trevor Saunders, 16, and 11 other students arrived at the Wallops Flight Facility in Baltimore in mid-July and prepared their rocket for launch. Four hours later, everything was ready…
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Letter: Van Dykes happy with exhibit
To the editor: My Piscataway daughters returned from a recent visit to the Van Dyke Exhibit at the South Brunswick Library in Monmouth Junction with the exclamation: "That exhibit is awesome. It is all about us." It truly is. More importantly the exhibit is about a very large tract of open land, adjacent to…
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South cross country team returns top five runners
Harriers open dual-meet season Sept. 18. By: John E. Powers There’s a lot for the South Hunterdon Regional High School cross country team to feel good about and the season has yet to begin. Longtime head coach John Zidzik, who’s entering his 18th year, welcomed 16 runners out for team, including last year’s top…
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Reel dreams
A New Amwell Road actor, screenwriter and director has a new calling card, a short film titled ‘Life is Short.’ By: Charlie Olsen Christopher Rollings, a local film director, thinks somebody is out to get him. His suspicions compound until he’s sure it’s his wife; but is he really sure, or is it all in…
