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  • Todorovic falls in love with cross country

    Sophomore becomes first-year phenom By: Rudy Brandl    It’s not every day that a small school like Manville High finds an athlete who loves to run long distance. Sasa Todorovic emerged as one of those diamonds in the rough for the Mustangs this fall.    The MHS sophomore caught head coach Jim O’Connor’s eye early in the…

  • Food Pantry still needs help for Holiday Program

    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…

  • Vikings came close on several occasions

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The hunt for titles this fall was as tricky as a snipe hunt for the South Brunswick High School boys’ varsity soccer team.    The Vikings came the closest in the Greater Middlesex Conference’s Red Division, where a 9-5 record put them in second place behind North Brunswick. They just missed advancing…

  • Letters for the week of Dec. 1

    Wal-Mart is no deal for Lawrence area To the editor:     At 4 p.m. Dec. 1, a rally sponsored by LETS. Stop Wal-Mart, will take place in front of the Lawrence Township Municipal Building to oppose construction of a new Wal-Mart.    At 5 p.m., the Screening Committee of the Lawrence Township Planning Board will review…

  • Defending champs loaded with deserving all-stars

    Florence players dominate BCSL Freedom Division First and Second Team All-Star squads By: Sean Moylan    When you win 35 games in a row, as the Florence Flashes varsity football team has done, you’re bound to have a whole lot of all-star players. One could even say Florence players dominate the BCSL Freedom Division First and…

  • Township, Hopewell police pact talks deadlocked

    Township Administrator Bruce Hilling said "all the paperwork is done" to apply for a $6,600 state grant that would pay an outside consultant to study interlocal agreement and report by spring By John Tredrea    Hopewell Township and Hopewell Borough have not, come to an agreement — as 2006 budget-preparation time approaches — on how much…

  • Obituaries for the week of Dec. 1

    Damien Dixon    PRINCETON — Damien Dixon of Princeton Friday at University Medical Center at Princeton after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 29.    A lifelong musician, he grew up in Lawrence where his musical talents were recognized early. He began piano lessons at age 5.    He won the Baldwin National Piano Competition at age…

  • Shirley Marshalek

       MANVILLE — Shirley Ann Marshalek died Nov. 27 at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville.    Born in Chinchilla, Pa., she moved to Manville in 1959.    Mrs. Marshalek was a homemaker.    During the 1950s, she was an award winning dance instructor for the Arthur Murray School of Dance.    Her husband, Martin Marshalek, died in 1995; a sister, Dorothy…

  • Princeton Y Crafters’ Marketplace

    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.