• HILLSBOROUGH: Zebro girls gather accolades

    Naomi Zebro, a high school senior and resident of Hillsborough, was inducted into the National Honor Society in its Marion chapter on March 19 at Cardinal McCarrick High School. Eliana Zebro, a high-school senior, resident of Hillsborough and young composer, will have one of her compositions performed on April 30 at Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: STATE WERE IN

    Want to hear a ‘new’ frog? By Michele Byers, Special Writer Here in America’s most densely populated metropolitan area, it’s hard to believe there are still new animal species being discovered! But thanks to modern technology and the work of Rutgers University doctoral student Jeremy Feinberg, the existence of a previously unidentified species of leopard…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: After winter’s cold, it’s time to reawaken

    Editorial Congratulations, Hillsborough residents, you have survived a cold and nasty February and a March that stubbornly resisted yielding to spring. Maybe the back-to-back months with a Friday the 13th should have foreshadowed our foul luck. In retrospect, at its start the winter didn’t appear to bode so ornery. In passing conversation in mid-January, township…

  • CRANBURY: Off to the races
  • WAHT’S WRONG WITH WRITING?: The five-paragraph handcuffs

    WAHT’S WRONG WITH WRITING?: The five-paragraph handcuffs

    By Susan Danoff EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles about the teaching of writing/language arts in area public schools, with a focus on middle and upper school practices.      A couple of years ago, I was tutoring a bright 10th grade student from an honors class at one of…

  • JAMESBURG: Borough man critical after crash

    JAMESBURG: Borough man critical after crash

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two separate crashes with trucks this weekend left a Jamesburg man fighting for his life and a car destroyed by fire, according to police. In the first crash, Rosbuth Mathis, 50, of Jamesburg, was driving a 1996 Mercury west on Deans Rhode Hall Road around 12:45 p.m. when he crossed into the…

  • JAMESBURG: Borough man critical after crash

    JAMESBURG: Borough man critical after crash

    Police photo. A Jamesburg man was critically injured after hitting a trac´tor-trailer head-on on Deans Rhode Hall Road in South Brunswick Friday.

  • Mini Mazda SUV

    Q&A with Sharon Peters Q: We’ve loved our Mazda CX-5. But we’re moving to the city and want something smaller and easier to park. We’ve looked at a few small SUVs, but I don’t like them as much. The Mazda dealership mentioned months ago that Mazda has a mini SUV “in the pipeline” but couldn’t…

  • Trucks top 2015 resale awards

    With sales of pickups, SUVs and crossovers booming, it should come as no surprise that the 10 vehicles predicted to deliver the highest resale values after five years of ownership are trucks. That’s according to the valuation experts at Kelley Blue Book in Irvine, Calif., and their annual Best Resale Value Awards. The top 10…

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