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  • Schools strategize superintendent search

    Mansfield and Bordentown search for district leaders By: William Wichert    The search is on for new superintendents in two local school districts.    Facing two very different deadlines, Board of Education members in the Mansfield Township School District and the Bordentown Regional School District have scheduled recent public meetings to determine their strategy for finding new…

  • Vikes win third straight

    By: Ken Weingartner    Noah Antonoff likes the direction his South Brunswick High ice hockey team is moving.    But there still remains a long journey ahead.    The Vikings continued to dig themselves out of the 0-4 hole they created earlier this season by picking up their third straight win over the winter break, beating Johnson 5-4.…

  • BRHS, Florence boys win basketball tourneys

    By: Sean Moylan    Bordentown head boys’ varsity basketball coach Mark Drew refuses to get too excited just yet because he knows it’s a long season and his Scotties’ toughest games are still ahead of them. Even so, the Scotties gave their fans a taste of just how good they could be when they defeated Haddon…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Hey, I got some slogans for you right here

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: New state slogans leave way too much to be desired. By: Hank Kalet    I’m not exactly sure why, but acting Gov. Richard Codey seems to think it’s necessary to come up with a new state slogan.    I’m not really sure what was wrong with the old one.    You remember the old…

  • FILM CAPSULES

    Short descriptions Balls of Fury Pingpong is played to the extreme in this comedy about Randy Daytona (Don Fogler), a former table tennis phenom, who is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate an underground pingpong tournament led by the murderous Feng (Christopher Walken), who killed Daytona’s father.Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for…

  • Open space board disbands

    Township advisory committee completes its mission By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The township’s Open Space Advisory Committee has done its job, so officials are calling it a day.    The more than four-year-old municipal body was disbanded by the Township Committee last week, because officials said the group has achieved its original goal of identifying…

  • Obituaries for the week of Dec. 5

    Edward D. Scharite, Caterina Pata Varone, Stephen Joseph Stefancin Jr. Edward D. Scharite    ALLENTOWN — Edward D. Scharite, 54, died Dec. 25 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Yardville, he lived in the Allentown area his entire life. Mr. Scharite was employed as a sheet metal worker for Local 27 in…

  • George Padgett was always there as mayor

    GUEST COLUMN By David Knights    It is impossible to walk on nearly any street in Hopewell Borough and not see the impact that George Padgett made on this community in the time he lived here and served as mayor.    Since learning of George’s death in Florida last week, the visible reminders have caused me to…

  • Township names new mayor for 2006

    Dennis Roohr named New Hanover mayor By: William Wichert    NEW HANOVER — Republican Dennis Roohr was named township mayor at the Jan. 1 reorganization meeting, replacing Democrat Mayor Sharon Atkinson.    Along with a new figurehead, the Township Committee now also has new faces in the likes of George Ivins Jr. and Paul Peterla, two Republicans…