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Raiders looking to build on solid season in GMC
BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent North Brunswick Township High School’s girls basketball team enters the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Tournament on the heels of a solid 13-6 campaign, and the Lady Raiders will be looking to make their presence felt. During the regular season, North Brunswick displayed an irritatingly effective pressure defense that on 10 occasions held…
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Viking girls capture CJ track championship
NBTHS’s Davis sets meet record South Brunswick High School sprinters Alicia Osley and Janae Baker head the field in the 400-meter dash at the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV championships held Feb. 11 at the Bennett Indoor Complex in Toms River. Osley and Baker finished one-four in the race, and the Viking girls won the…
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Register for So. Bruns. kindergarten Feb. 23
The South Brunswick School District will conduct kindergarten registration for the 2011-12 school year on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Registration will be held at the individual schools (unless otherwise noted) during the times listed below: Brooks Crossing/Deans: 8:30-10:30 a.m.; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; 6-8 p.m., at Brooks Crossing Elementary School, 50 Deans Rhode Hall Road, Monmouth Junction. Indian…
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Trio charged in connection with baby formula theft
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Authorities responded to a call from the Target store on Route 1 at 3:25 p.m. Feb. 10 after the store’s loss-prevention personnel stopped Ashley Vohdin, 27, of Metuchen, from leaving with allegedly stolen baby formula. South Brunswick police said that two other suspects were waiting for Vohdin in the parking lot. An…
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So. Bruns. warehouse workers overcome by carbon monoxide
No one seriously injured SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Seventeen employees at a South Brunswick warehouse were overcome by carbon monoxide on Feb 12. South Brunswick police officers responded at 10:20 a.m. to reports of a sick employee at Herman Warehouse Corp. located at 21 Distribution Way. Upon arrival, the police discovered that the worker had fainted…
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Soon, the only smoking area will be the landfill
CODA GREG BEAN When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg began targeting smokers eight years ago, he started small by making it against the law to smoke in bars, restaurants, hotels and offices. Thatwas good news to us nonsmokers, who were tired of breathing secondhand smoke at the barwhilewe sipped double Black Jacks and ate…
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It is time to clean up the ‘toxic political climate’
The attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was a horrific act, but one that may give our political leaders the courage to improve the civility of their discourse and strengthen gun control and mental health laws. The issue is not whether we can drawa direct line from extreme right wing rhetoric to the shooting.…
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American Red Cross in need of blood donors
evere winter weather in recent weeks has caused the cancellation of more than 14,000 blood and platelet donations through the American Red Cross, approximately 1,800 units of which were in the region. The American Red Cross has issued a nationwide call for blood donors in an effort to boost the blood supply. The Red Cross…
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Christie urged to help merge Rutgers-UMDNJ
There is still a long way to go — but, finally, there is no question a new, solid start has been made to merge Rutgers University and two parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Themove has the potential to combine the two universities and transform them into a great…
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