Category: archives
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Letters to the Editor, June 15, 2006
Bad public policy To the editor: I read with interest the pending legislation by Hopewell Borough and, possibly, Hopewell Township municipal officials to consider making it illegal for underage children to drink alcoholic beverages in private homes. Although I understand the meritorious intent of the proposed legislation, I must say I think it is…
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LHS club raises money for Darfur
LHS students who raised more than $600 for Doctors Without Borders to aid the Darfur relief effort. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer It’s lunchtime at Lawrence High School, and while students were chowing down their meals, a group of their classmates had set up a booth to raise awareness of the starving refugees in Darfur, Sudan.…
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Police Beat
For the week of June 15 BORDENTOWN CITY Police said a man was seen staggering across Route 206 just after 11 p.m. June 5. When questioned, the man did not immediately give his real name, police said. He was later identified as Ricky Cooper, 40, of Voorhees, who had warrants for his arrest out of…
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Raider netmen established identity
Team advanced all the way to sectional final By: Rudy Brandl Life after Thomas wasn’t so bad after all. Hillsborough High boys’ tennis coach Larry Johnson was eager to see how his team would establish its new identity after the graduation of four-year first singles star Thomas Kinrade. While the Raiders fielded a very different…
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Noreen Merrill
BELLE MEAD Noreen (Fitzgerald) Merrill died June 11 in Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 60. Born in New York she moved to Belle Mead in 1977. Mrs. Merrill was employed as an elementary teacher for the Piscataway School system for 33 years, retiring in 2001. Surviving are her husband, Douglas Merrill; one…
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District schools get new principals
Board of Education promotes three administrators By: Marisa Maldonado Three district administrators received promotions Monday night, after the Board of Education approved the appointment of new principals at Monmouth Junction and Indian Fields schools, and a new assistant principal at South Brunswick High School. Maribeth Edmunds, the district’s director of professional development, will take the…
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HHS teams belonged on Championship Weekend
DeLuca, Fedroff leave HHS as best ever By: Rudy Brandl Oh, how I was pining for some championship action last weekend. With three Hillsborough High teams still alive in the sectional semifinals and two making it all the way to the championship game, I figured I had a shot to be covering something on a…
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Chiropractor returns to set up practice on his home turf
Adam Grossman moves back home to establish his own practice By: Joseph Harvie Adam Grossman has been involved with chiropractic work since he was 7 years old. "I’ve been getting adjusted since I was very little," the 1997 South Brunswick High School graduate said. "It has helped me throughout my life. It’s a healing science;…
