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  • Brennan’s talented boys face tough road

    By: Sean Moylan    Last year, Mike Brennan enjoyed one the best first seasons any head coach could hope for when his Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity soccer team made it all the way to the Group I New Jersey State Finals, where the Scotties lost a tough 2-1 decision to Pompton Lakes.    This year,…

  • Labor of love

    September festival draws crowds for 27 years By: Cara Latham    FLORENCE — Since the Fountain of Life Center held its first Labor Day Festival 27 years ago as a fundraiser for its school, Life Center Academy, it has grown from a small church function to a huge celebration drawing in thousands of people and hundreds…

  • Optimism reigns supreme for Vikings

    Gymnastics team is hoping for a history-making season By: Rich Fisher    At the conclusion of last season, South Brunswick High gymnastics coach Erika Perjesy felt that if the Vikings could not qualify for the state meet as a team this year, they never would.    Nothing has happened since last November to change her mind.    The…

  • Mains helps LHS get back into contention

    FIELD HOCKEY By: John. E. Powers    In her first year as head coach of the Lawrence High School field hockey team, Candace Mains led the Cardinals back to respectability.    This year, the team’s challenge will be to build on it.    Lawrence won the Colonial Valley Conference Colonial Division, qualifed for the North Jersey, Section 1-2,…

  • Malko makes TV debut

    Kristin Malko, a 2001 Hillsborough High School graduate, appears in four episodes of the popular Fox TV series ‘Prison Break.’ By: Donna Lukiw    Many aspiring actors flock to Hollywood, but Kristin Malko moved to Texas instead and recently landed a role in the popular Fox TV series "Prison Break."    "I’m really hoping with ‘Prison Break’…

  • Helping Katrina’s victims (II)

    SBHS grad pitches in down South By: Lacey Korevec    When Maoz Brown watched the news a year ago and saw the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, he knew he wanted to get down there and help.    One year later, Mr. Brown, a 21-year-old Kendall Park resident, is one of 10 AmeriCorps members living in a…

  • Master Gardeners to host Insect Festival

    Date is Sept. 9 at Mercer County Home Compost Demonstration Site and Gardens, Hopewell Township    The Master Gardeners of Mercer County will host their fourth annual Insect Festival on Sept. 9 from 1-4 p.m.    The festival will be held, rain or shine, at the Mercer County Home Compost Demonstration Site and Gardens, 431A Federal City…

  • Superintendent outlines school-year highlights

    Inflatable planetarium to rotate around buildings By John Tredrea    A new inflatable planetarium that can be set up in five minutes and packed into a duffel bag will be rotated around the six Hopewell Valley schools this year, Superintendent Judith Ferguson said Tuesday.    The cost of the $20,000 planetarium, called Star Lab, was split by…

  • New social editor joins Register News

    By: Theresa Poulson    Since the dawn of the age of reality television we have all become aware of the fixation media consumers have with watching people in their daily lives. Though most would chalk it all up to the public’s voyeuristic tendencies, I think the interest in reality television comes from a more innocent place.…