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  • Alice Schafer

       HILLSBOROUGH -— Alice Schafer died Friday at Princeton Care Center, Princeton. She was 70.    Born in Manhattan, N.Y., she lived in the Bronx, N.Y., before moving to Hillsborough 34 years ago.    Mrs. Schafer was a bookkeeper employed by Applied Data Research in Montgomery.    She was vice-president of Hillsborough Senior Citizens Chapter B, a member and…

  • Bulldogs seeking first victory today

    HOPEWELL VALLEY BASEBALL By: Tim Falls    Saying the Hopewell Valley Central High School baseball team had a rough start is an understatement.    Coach Kenny Harrison said the team has been unable to make plays on offense and on defense. Fielding errors and strikeouts have put Hopewell Valley behind in each of its three games so…

  • Boretsky sentencing on Friday

    Man found guilty of murdering his wife will get 30 years to life in prison. By: Joseph Harvie    Convicted murderer Boris Boretsky will officially be sentenced Friday in state Superior Court in New Brunswick to 30 years to life in prison.    A jury handed down the sentence Jan 11 after it found him guilty of…

  • Curves in the Road

    Sergio Bonotto’s sketches capture the raw emotions of being a 19-year-old serviceman in World War II. By: Susan Van Dongen    There is a famous drawing by World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin, where two officers are gazing at spectacular mountain scenery and one turns to the other and says, "Beautiful view. Is there one for…

  • Voting helps maintain full local control of schools

    GUEST OPINION By Kim Newport    The laws of the State of New Jersey place public schools substantially under local control. That means that residents in each school district in the state have extraordinary input into how their local public schools are run and the money that school districts are allowed to spend. Local school boards…

  • Numbers, depth will aid Mustangs

    TRACK & FIELD PREVIEW By: Rudy Brandl        Better depth, thanks to higher numbers and more quality, should make the Manville High track and field team more successful this spring.    The Mustangs missed a winning dual meet record by one point last year. They also fell short in a few other meets because there wasn’t…

  • ‘Side By Side By Sondheim’

    Off-Broadstreet Theatre stages a musical revue of favorites from ‘Company,’ ‘Follies,’ ‘A Little Night Music’ and more. By: Stuart Duncan    Whenever Hopewell’s Off-Broadstreet Theatre stages a musical revue, we can count on a great evening. But the current offering, Side By Side By Sondheim, has exceeded all expectations. I am no particular fan of Sondheim’s…

  • ‘2046’

    Feeling is everything in this film about a writer who learns how clinging to the memory of an old love can keep you from finding a new one. By: Elise Nakhnikian    It’s taken Wong Kar-Wai’s latest movie almost as long to get here as it did for the notoriously meticulous writer-director to finish making it,…

  • Journey Back in Time

    Historic house tours, a pig roast and pasta dinner are just some of the enticements to the Crossroads Celebration of the Battle of Bound Brook. By: Jillian Kalonick    With 500 American soldiers facing 4,000 British Crown troops, the odds didn’t look very good for the small Colonial garrison.    It was Palm Sunday, April 13, 1777,…