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  • County champs!

    Vikings rout East Brunswick for lacrosse title, 9-5. By: Ken Weingartner    Anthony Osbourne says that lacrosse is life.    On Monday night, life was good for South Brunswick.    Playing before a large and energetic home crowd, the Vikings snapped a four-game losing streak in Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament championship games by defeating East Brunswick, 9-5, in…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of May 25 Preserve farmers along with the land To the editor:    This letter is being written in response to the letter of Mr. Schwartz in the May 18 Register-News. Mr. Schwartz, my name is Jim Specca and I am the party to whom you keep referring in your responses to the…

  • Manville teams set for CJ 1 action

    Baseball, softball, track and field events on tap By: Rudy Brandl    Manville High’s athletes and teams hope to complete this very successful spring campaign with a big showing on the state level. All three MHS spring programs will compete in NJSIAA tournaments or events in the next few days. If they perform well, they’ll continue…

  • Mayor home after second hospital stay

    Grbelja ‘doing well’ after horse-riding accident By: Purvi Desai    MILLSTONE — Mayor Nancy Grbelja is out of the hospital. Again.    Mayor Grbelja, who was briefly hospitalized after a May 6 horse-riding accident, returned to the hospital May 16 due to complications involving blood clots. On Tuesday, after a week’s stay at CentraState Hospital in Freehold,…

  • Veterans to honor fallen soldiers

    The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9111 will hold its annual services at 10 a.m. Monday. American Legion Post 411 will hold a similar service at 11:30 a.m. By: Marisa Maldonado    Local veterans organizations will observe Memorial Day on Monday with services open to the public.    The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9111 will hold…

  • NBC baseball knocked out of state playoffs

    10-run mercy rule in effect in five-inning loss By: Sean Moylan    Opponents of the 10-run mercy rule could have used West Windsor-Plainsboro North’s 16-5, five-inning win over Northern Burlington’s baseball team as a prime example of why games should go all seven frames.    The Greyhounds are such a good hitting team it would not have…

  • Meeting mentors

    Students learn from authors during Young Authors days. By: Donna Lukiw    Students throughout the school district have been enjoying firsthand lessons from the authors and illustrators of some of their favorite books this month, as the schools mark Young Authors events in the district.    At Woods Road Elementary School, students grappled to identify mysterious items…

  • Hillsborough girls advance to sectional semifinals

    Softballers rally, lacrosse ladies romp By: Rudy Brandl    Two Hillsborough High girls’ teams advanced to sectional semifinals with victories Thursday afternoon.    In Sayreville, the seventh-seeded HHS softball team rallied for a 5-4 triumph over Sayreville. The Raiders (17-7) will make their second straight trip to the Central Jersey Group 4 semifinals, where they will take…

  • Ain’t They Got Fun?

    Princeton Garden Statesmen give the barbershop touch to ‘Fractured Fiction.’ By: Susan Van Dongen    Back in 1938, two Midwesterners, Owen Cash and Rupert Hall, were delayed by a storm and stranded in the lobby of a hotel in Kansas City. They realized that they shared a love for harmonizing, and with a little help found…