Category: archives

  • House of Blues

    The thrill isn’t gone for B.B. King, who will make a stop in Trenton on his 80th birthday tour. By:Josh Appelbaum    The fanfare surrounding what’s been billed as B.B. King’s 80th Birthday Celebration Tour seems to have little effect on the blues guitarist and singer, who claims he’s never really been off tour.    "We sometimes…

  • Bobik’s boys 1-1 in Group I playoffs

    By:Sean Moyland    Metuchen entered Saturday’s semifinal game versus the Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity basketball team with a 21-2 record and it was the number one seed in Central Jersey Group I. Obviously, it was a home game for Metuchen, which was eager to avenge a loss to the Flashes’ in the last…

  • Cool Beans!

    Filmmaker bases his animated movie on childhood experiences in Lawrence. By:Cara Latham Special Writer    Patrick Walsh Jr. seemed to have done it all. He started off studying computer science and switched to finance while in college. He worked on Wall Street, did stunts in movies like "Day After Tomorrow," appeared in commercials and even sold…

  • Wal-Mart foes, again, seek living-wage law

    Members of LET’s Stop Wal-Mart presented a draft living-wage ordinance to the Township Council on Tuesday. The governing body claims it lacks the authority to proceed with the measure. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    Determined to convince Township Council to enact a living-wage law, a citizens’ group that opposes a planned Wal-Mart store on Spruce Street…

  • Raiders skate to first state playoff win

    Another historic accomplishment for hockey team By: Rudy Brandl    FLEMINGTON — Once the Hillsborough High ice hockey team found its legs, there was no stopping this first-year varsity juggernaut.    Locked in a competitive duel with local rival Watchung Hills for almost the first two periods, the Raiders suddenly erupted for five unanswered goals and rolled…

  • Police Beat for the week of March 9

    Washington    A 22-year-old Bordentown Township man has been charged with cocaine and marijuana possession after police discovered 28 small bags of the two drugs on the man and in his car after he was pulled over on Route 33 in the township for a traffic violation March 1.    Two bags of suspected marijuana were found…

  • Jean Podraza

       DEPTFORD — Jean T. (Stradomski) Podraza died Feb. 27 in Sunrise Assisted Living Center in Deptford. She was 90.    Born in Larksville, Pa., she lived in Manville for 50 years.    Mrs. Podraza was a homemaker.    She was a communicant of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Manville.    Her husband, Edward T. Podraza, is deceased.…

  • FORUM: Should the township create a residential zone with a lower housing density than the current rural residential zone, which allows one unit per 2 acres?

    Join the Debate    The South Brunswick Post is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of South Brunswick want their town to…

  • Bordentown girls edged out for Sectional hoop title

    By: Sean Moylan    Intensity took human form on Monday night and renamed itself Taryn Lynch.    There were times during the first quarter of Monday’s game versus South Hunterdon that the Bordentown Regional High School girls’ basketball team was doing everything in its power just not to get blown out. Yet before the first half was…