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  • High school drama club tackles one-act plays

    The spring drama opens Friday By: Donna Lukiw    Ten actors, three student directors, one student stage manager and two student set painters are ready to present the Hillsborough High School spring play Friday and Saturday.    Instead of acting out one play, the drama and English teachers wanted to do something different. They chose three different…

  • Raider laxmen ousted in SCT quarterfinals

    HHS beats Watchung Hills in first round By: John E. Powers        BRIDGEWATER — Topping two longtime nemeses in 72 hours in the Somerset County Tournament wasn’t meant to be for the Hillsborough High boys’ lacrosse team.    The Raiders, who snapped a five-game and three-year losing streak to Watchung Hills Saturday at Noonan Field with…

  • Dentler hopes for South Brunswick fortune to change

    By: Ken Weingartner    China won the 2004 Olympic gold medal in women’s volleyball, but when South Brunswick High boys volleyball coach Steve Dentler turned to the Far East for inspiration, that wasn’t where he found it.    No, Dentler discovered what he was looking for in another manner – by cracking open a fortune cookie after…

  • Irizzary runs strong on track, in classroom

    HHS senior honored at county dinner By: John Beisser        Fredy Irizarry has been one of the most talented cross country and track and field athletes at Hillsborough High School for the past four years. About the only thing Irizarry may be better at than long-distance running is schoolwork.    Last Thursday, Irizarry was in some…

  • Lawrence gets late surge

    BOYS LACROSSE By: John E Powers    Anthony Ammirata has been realistic about the prospects for his Lawrence High School boy’s lacrosse team this year, his first as head coach.    When the season began, Ammirata thought a .500 season as one of the Cardinals goals.    That objective faded after a 0-8 start against a brutal early…

  • Raiders earn another shot at Immaculata

    Fedroff blanks Somerville in SCT quarterfinals By: John E. Powers        Norm Hewitt, Hillsborough High School’s longtime head baseball coach, has always had a sly sense of humor.    After the fourth-seeded Raiders beat fifth-seeded Somerville 2-0 Saturday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the Somerset County Tournament, Hewitt pondered how tough Immaculata would be in the…

  • STUDENT LETTERS

    From the issue of May 11, 2006. Exploited children deserve help To the editor:    In my school, Hillsborough High School, teachers gave all the freshman history honors classes a project on the several world problems today.    So my teacher, Mr. Herman, and my class decided that child labor was most important and interesting.    Child labor…

  • Zoning board to continue hearing on assisted-living plan

    3641 Lawrenceville Road LLC and CareOne LLC are seeking a use variance to construct a 150-bed assisted living facility on the site of the historic William Gulick House. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    The township Zoning Board of Adjustment is gearing up for a third meeting to consider a developer’s application to construct a 150-bed assisted…

  • Obituaries

    For the week of May 11 Winnie A. Russell    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Winnie A. Russell, 83, of Bordentown Township, died Friday in Care One at Hamilton.    She was born in Trenton and resided in the Trenton-Bordentown area all of her life.    She was a retired employee of United States Steel of Fairless Hills where she…