• ROBBINSVILLE: Taking the plunge

    ROBBINSVILLE: Taking the plunge

    RHS students, faculty and board memberstake part to aid Special Olympics     SEASIDE HEIGHTS — A group of Robbinsville High School faculty, students and board members took to the snowy beach in 17-degree weather to plunge into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean.     They joined nearly 6,000 people in this year’s record-breaking Polar…

  • SPRINGFIELD HAPPENINGS: March 5

        The Northern Burlington Band Boosters are having their first annual Comedy Night on Friday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the Rutgers ECO Complex, 1200 Columbus Road, Columbus.     Tickets are $25 and include the three comedians show and dessert.     Tickets can be purchased at [email protected] or by calling or texting Mary Wolverton…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Donnadio, Schimmel advance to TOC

    Wrestlers head to Atlantic City By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Jack Donnadio and Austin Schimmel reached long-time goals when the Hillsborough High School duo qualified for the state’s wrestling Tournament of Champions on Saturday for the first time.    Donnadio is a senior, who placed second at 138 pounds. He lost a 4-1 decision to…

  • Can too many solar panels cause undesired effect?

    James X. Paterno, Belle Mead     The Butterfly Effect, a staple of Chaos Theory, simply stated, is that, “a small change in one state of a deterministic system can result in large differences in a later state.” The writer proposes that a common practice that is growing rapidly as we seek “renewable” energy sources is…

  • HAMILTON: Family Guidance Center to honor Marguerite Mount

        HAMILTON — Family Guidance Center will honor Marguerite Mount with the Mary Jo Codey Award at its Spring Fling April 16 from 6-9 p.m. at the corporate campus of Janssen Pharmaceuticals.     The award was established in honor of the former first lady of New Jersey to recognize a member of the community who…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Taking the plunge

    ROBBINSVILLE: Taking the plunge

    Robbinsville High School teachers Jennifer Smith, Lauren Tyndorf, Joan Douglass, and Marybeth Kowalski with team captain junior Caitlyn Krueger at the Polar Plunge in Seaside Heights on Feb. 21.

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates enjoy golden finish

    Girls track sweeps relays at Easterns By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Edwina Gulama and the West Windsor-Plainsboro South track and field teams were looking for a big finish.    They got it at the Eastern States Invitational on Tuesday night in New York’s Armory.    Gulama, a sophomore, joined with Deirdre Casey, Edlyn Gulama and Christina…

  • AROUND THE HORN: Of fathers and sons: Recalling old memories, and making new ones, with Cal Ripken Jr.

    AROUND THE HORN: Of fathers and sons: Recalling old memories, and making new ones, with Cal Ripken Jr.

    By Mike Morsch, Executive Editor While standing in a long line earlier this week at Barnes & Noble in Princeton, I found myself directly behind two fathers and their young sons. We were all there to meet baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., who was in town to sign copies of his new children’s…

  • Foggia brothers reach state wrestling tournament

    By Josh Lashley, Special Writer MANSFIELD — The Foggia brothers have punched their ticket to Atlantic City.     The junior wrestling standouts for Northern Burlington High School competed at a high level this past weekend at the NJSIAA Region 7 Tournament hosted by Robbinsville High School and will now compete at the state tournament held…

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