Author: Central Jersey

  • Drivers, Students Focus on Safety at Kean CarFit Program

    Drivers, Students Focus on Safety at Kean CarFit Program

    Paula Brilliant of Springfield (from left) visits Kean University’s CarFit program with Assistant OT Professor Dr. Jennifer Gardner and students Michele Cordaro, Mackenzie Kruger, and Marissa Lorenzo.

  • MANVILLE: Advice to grads: Define yourself

    MANVILLE: Advice to grads: Define yourself

    Alumnus advises class to ‘write own introduction’ By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer Photos by Mary Ellen DaySmiles, handshakes, decorated clapboards and speeches were all part of the graduation ceremony at Manville High School on Friday night.  Manville High School said goodbye to its 57th graduating class on Friday, June 20. The ceremony for…

  • LAWRENCE: ‘Happy’ Class of 2014 becomes history

    LAWRENCE: ‘Happy’ Class of 2014 becomes history

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer "Happy" was the word of the day, as 300-plus Lawrence High School seniors gathered together for the last time at the Sun National Bank Center June 18 — just hours away from attaining alumni status as the Lawrence High School Class of 2014. Lawrence High School Principal Jonathan Dauber was…

  • CALENDAR: JUNE 27

    Wednesdays    Free Acoustic Open Mic Night and Poetry at Star Subs and Café in the Buckley Plaza 621 Route 130, Hamilton, will be hosted Wednesdays at 7 p.m. by American Idol contestant Bri Lobue. Audience and musicians are welcome. 609-333- 1230. Mondays    Free Memoir Writing Classes. All welcome. Every Monday 1:30 –4 p.m., Main floor…

  • MANVILLE: Advice to grads: Define yourself

    MANVILLE: Advice to grads: Define yourself

    Valedictorian Alec Salvato addresses the audience.(Photo by Mary Ellen Day)

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Junior racquetball team in Denver for national tourney

    HILLSBOROUGH: Junior racquetball team in Denver for national tourney

    Hillsborough racquetball players in Denver for a national tourney are, from left, Connor Hamill, Aady Balasubranian, Dhruv Chachra and Trevor Mateyka. Kneeling in front is Coach Scott Mateyka.

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Demographer: Continued drop in student enrollment

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer Student enrollment in the Hopewell Valley School District is expected to continue to decline significantly for five more years, according to a demographer’s report submitted to the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education. In his report, submitted to the board last week, demographer Richard Grip notes that "after peaking in…

  • Molly Peterson wins local League’s Service Award

    Molly Peterson wins local League’s Service Award

    Molly Peterson (second from right), a recent graduate of Hopewell Valley CHS, won the local League of Women Voter’s annual Service Award. Shown from left are HoVal League President Joann Held, Molly’s mother Cathy, and State League President Toni Zimmer

  • MANVILLE: Advice to grads: Define yourself

    MANVILLE: Advice to grads: Define yourself

    Decorated mortarboard were part of the evening. (Photo by Mary Ellen Day)