Category: archives

  • Local project team will ‘Map the Ecosystems of a Threatened Valley’

    Proposal wins $10,000 TAPESTRY grant     A proposal to document the diverse ecosystems of Hopewell Valley and how they affected human settlement patterns has won a $10,000 grant from the Toyota TAPESTRY program, officials from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) announced recently.    "Mapping the Ecosystems of a Threatened Valley" was one of just 50…

  • School chief elects to stay

    Superintendent rescinds resignation after encouragement from colleagues, parents By: Scott Morgan    SPRINGFIELD — Helena Sullivan has not left the building and doesn’t plan to, despite what you’ve heard. After a few pleas to stay and after a look at the amount of stuff going on at Springfield Elementary School, this particular superintendent has decided to…

  • GOP begins membership drive

    HVRA’s annual Spring Breakfast is coming up on April 8    At its annual meeting last week, the Hopewell Valley Republican Association (HVRA) announced its annual Spring Membership Drive.    An active community group for over half a century, the HVRA was founded to encourage residents to participate in the Valley’s political and community affairs, and to…

  • Living with CF

    While local students with cystic fibrosis cope with the condition, several hundred Hillsborough residents are expected to take part in the annual Great Strides Walk at Colonial Park in Franklin to help combat it. By: Donna Lukiw    Thomas Bennett is a typical fifth-grade student at Auten Road Intermediate School.    He likes to play soccer and…

  • Crammer a hit in new baseball career

    By: Sean Moylan    When he was a young man playing shortstop for the Bordentown Scotties, we all had visions of Ryan Crammer one day playing the infield for his favorite team, the Philadelphia Phillies. Yet at the same time Crammer was just as impressive academically and he was often the first person coaches sent out…

  • Final Frontier

    Photographer David Wurtzel traveled to the land of the Midnight Sun for his exhibit at Gallery 14. By:Susan Van Dongen    It was an eerie photograph in a book about Admiral Byrd’s adventures in Antarctica that lodged itself in photographer David Wurtzel’s brain for decades, and made him almost obsessed with the frozen continent.    In the…

  • Viking girls enjoyed another strong winter season

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    For the second year in a row, the South Brunswick High School girls’ winter track team flourished under the no-dual meet system instituted by the Greater Middlesex Conference. The Lady Vikings traveled to big meets in three different states, collecting valuable experience along with medals and school and personal records.    The…

  • South Brunswick girls have a year like no other

    By: James McKeever    After finishing with an 11-14-3 record in 2004-05, the pieces were in place this winter for the South Brunswick girls bowling team to have a winning season.    And boy did they win.    The 2005-06 season turned out to be the best in program history, as the Vikings:    — Finished with a 24-3-1…

  • NBC boys’ basketball gets awards

    By: Sean Moylan    Jerry Howell and Danny Zimplemann have both had interesting four -year rides as members of the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity basketball team.    At the start of their careers, each was able to play and win a lot of games with Cedric "The Entertainer" Jackson. But for the past…