Category: archives

  • Pennington water, sewer rate-hike vote delayed

    Council members say the proposed rate hike, which would cover all of 2006, is needed to balance the water and sewer budget By John Tredrea    Pennington’s public water and sewer customers would see a 24 percent rate increase this year if an ordinance authorizing the rate hike is adopted by the Borough Council on Feb.…

  • South Brunswick advances in GMCT

    By: Lance Manion    The South Brunswick High School boys basketball team got the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament off to a bang, routing Perth Amboy Tech, 69-21, on Tuesday night.    Martin Soaries poured in seven of his 12 points in the first quarter when the fifth-seeded Vikings (18-4) jumped out to a 27-8 lead. Eleven South…

  • HHS ice hockey team needs to regroup

    Raiders remain confident with states looming By: John Beisser        There’s an old adage that says adversity builds character and Hillsborough High ice hockey coach Jeff Kampf is banking on that saying holding true as the Raiders enter the stretch run of the season points towards the NJSIAA Tournament.    Despite two tough losses last week,…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Time to redefine the family

    Marriage is a civil right that should be granted to gay and lesbian couples based on their commitment to one another and should have nothing to do with society’s outdated religious definitions. By: Hank Kalet    The state Supreme Court now has the chance to grant New Jersey’s gay and lesbian couples the rights they deserve.…

  • EDITORIAL: Signs will help direct trucks

    New color-coded signs being posted around Dayton and the area near the N.J. Turnpike Exit 8A should help keep trucks from ignoring weight limits and off of local roads.    Township officials are hoping a new set of signs will point trucks in the right direction.    Color-coded signs are being posted around Dayton and in the…

  • Warehouse rejected

    The Planning Board voted against the application, made by developer Trammel Crow, to build three warehouses at the intersection of Davidsons Mill Road and Route 535. By: Joseph Harvie    To the delight of members of the Eastern Villages Association, the Planning Board denied an application Wednesday that would have brought 1.8 million square feet of…

  • Blame Game

    George Street Playhouse’s production of ‘The Pillowman’ takes a darkly humorous look at who’s at fault when heinous crimes are committed based on one writer’s supposedly fictional stories. By:Jillian Kalonick    If Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is a black comedy, they don’t get much darker.    In the play, a writer of short stories, Katurian, is taken…

  • Janet Mazdi

       HILLSBOROUGH — Janet Mazdi died Feb. 6 in Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 88.    Born in Bothwell, Scotland, she grew up in Bayonne and lived most of her life in Union County, moving to Montgomery in 1995 and then finally to Hillsborough in 2002.    Mrs. Mazdi was an executive secretary for Alcoa Aluminum…

  • Raiders eliminated in county quarterfinals

    Early deficit too much to overcome at B-R By: Rudy Brandl    BRIDGEWATER — If anyone had a shot to climb this mountain, it was the Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team.    After all, the Raiders recently completed an amazing rally back to the .500 mark after starting the season with a 4-9 record. The team put…