Day: December 1, 2005

Ordinance would prohibit registered sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of a school, park, playground or day-care center in Manville. By: Melissa Edmond    Manville may become the next community to limit where sex offenders who have molested minors can live, if an ordinance introduced Monday becomes law.    The ordinance, a joint effort by Mayor…

Team goes overtime to finish 3-7 By: Shawn Tyrrell        It took a little bit longer than the Manville High School football team hoped — overtime to be exact — but the Mustangs finally managed to put away Bound Brook on Thanksgiving Day, emerging with a thrilling 27-21 victory.    This holiday contest had everything a…

Football team made huge strides By: Jim Green    The final record reads 1-9, but that doesn’t even come close to telling the story of the 2005 Hopewell Valley Central High School football team.    This was a team that always will be remembered in the halls of CHS, if for nothing more than its Oct. 17…

The Lawrence Township Emergency First Aid Squad’s roster of volunteers has dwindled from about 30 members to 18 members, according to Dean Acquaviva, the squad’s chief. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer When Dean Acquaviva joined the Lawrence Township Emergency First Aid Squad 15 years ago, volunteers raced to the squad building on Pilla Avenue to be…

Playful Theatre Productions presents this version of the Dickens classic at Kelsey Theatre. By: Stuart Duncan    You begin to wonder just what Charles Dickens might think about all of the variations of his touching novella A Christmas Carol. We have had multiple versions of the work — as a straight play, a delicious satire (Inspecting…

   OXFORD, Pa. — William Tonna died Nov. 19.    He lived in Hillsborough for 42 years before moving to Oxford, Pa.    Mr. Tonna retired from Somerville Post Office several years ago. He also did private contracting for many Somerville merchants for several years.    He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.    Surviving are his…

Stuffed treasure Hallie Schaeffer, 11, of Hopewell holds a stuffed chicken during the Princeton YMCA Crafters’ Marketplace held at Educational Testing Service, Lawrence, just before Thanksgiving.

Program needs 76 turkeys, or gift certificates for turkeys, to give to families in need, as well as clothes for dolls and stuffed bears that will be distributed and volunteers to help dress them. By: Joseph Harvie    Every family that has signed up for the township-run Holiday Program has been "adopted," but the township Department…

Diverse duo leads Mustangs to victory By: John E. Powers        Junior Leo Rodriguez and sophomore Dennis Petrone, Manville High School’s most valuable players in the team’s thrilling 27-21 overtime win against Bound Brook last Thursday morning, have established themselves as players from different paths.    While Rodriguez came to Manville as a soccer player from…