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  • Hillsborough boys roll in SCT opener

    Molarz leads assault By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team spread the wealth in Saturday’s 63-36 victory over Manville in the preliminary round of the Somerset County Tournament. Nine Raiders scored in a balanced assault that propelled the team into Saturday’s second round game at seventh-ranked Gill St. Bernards.    Tenth-ranked Hillsborough (6-9)…

  • Pennington Borough mayor resigns

    Pennington Republican Committee has 15 days from James Loper’s resignation (Feb. 1) to nominate three people to take his place. The council then would have 30 days to pick one of those candidates as his successor By John Tredrea    James Loper, mayor of Pennington since February 2001 and a Borough Council member for five years…

  • HHS swimmers still building after county meet

    Boys take second, girls tie for fourth By: John E. Powers        To say there wasn’t some disappointment among the Hillsborough High boys’ swimming team in Bridgewater-Raritan reclaiming its Somerset County Championship Saturday wouldn’t be telling the entire story.    HHS head coach Todd Sudol made sure his team knew the second-place finish wouldn’t be a…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    From the issue of Feb. 2, 2006. Township must resist league’s demands To the editor:    I am deeply concerned about recent attempts by the Hillsborough Little League to significantly increase the use of the township’s Willow Road baseball complex.    As I understand it, the Little League wants to extend their use of the township’s fields…

  • Trenton Makes Makers Hanging In

    The music goes on at Conduit and the 449 Room. By: Matt Smith    Owning and operating Conduit music club in Trenton for the past four-plus years could be called a "learning experience" for entrepreneur Roland Pott.    "You could say that," Mr. Pott says, laughing. "That’s a nice way to put it. It’s been a lot…

  • Boys team keeps fighting

    Hopewell Valley boys basketball By: Mike Molaro    Since the Hopewell Valley Central High School boys basketball squad was officially eliminated from qualifying for state tournament following last Friday’s 62-41 loss to Ewing, Bulldog coach Tony Mormile wondered if his guys would be ready both physically and mentally to take on Moorestown the next afternoon.    Despite…

  • Police recapture escapee in Allentown

    Borough briefly flooded with area police. (Feb. 8) By: Lauren Burgoon    ALLENTOWN — A frenzied search for an escaped prisoner brought a brief period of chaos to the borough last week as police officers and a search helicopter converged to track down the man.    A Plumsted canine officer tracked down Peter McClellan, 23, of Edison…

  • Feb. 2, 5:30 p.m.: A sad story and a bad budget

    As Bob Herbert writes today, we remain addicted to violence. By: Hank Kalet    This is one of the saddest columns I’ve read in a long time, but not sad in that soap opera-the-child-is-sick type of sad. No, this is sad because of what it says about us as a society.    We are addicted to violence…

  • Bulldogs ride wave into county meet

    Hopewell Valley wrestling By: Mike Molaro    After losing its previous four matches, the Hopewell Valley Central High School wrestling squad was looking to get back to its winning ways and take a positive attitude into this weekend’s Mercer County Wrestling Championships at Trenton High.    With its outstanding 125-145-pound weight classes leading the way, the Bulldogs…