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  • No promises, but some action

    Mayor says Claremont residents’ taxes shouldn’t be increased until 2006 when the cleanup is supposed to be finished. By: Melissa Edmond    The Borough Council is taking steps to help the residents in the Claremont subdivision whose tax assessments were raised even though a creosote cleanup in their neighborhood still continues, but many of the residents…

  • Verna Rabbitz

       MANVILLE — Verna (Falatovich) Rabbitz died Nov. 10 in Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 88.    Born in Hazelton, Pa., she was raised in McAdoo, Pa., before moving to Manville in 1955.    Mrs. Rabbitz was a homemaker.    She was a communicant of St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church in Hillsborough.    Her husband, George Rabbitz, died…

  • District asked not to report class rank

    Allentown High School may follow trend of other area schools in not reporting class rank (Nov.17) By: Lauren Burgoon UPPER FREEHOLD – Picture yourself as a high school senior, anxiously sitting by the mailbox awaiting a thick envelope signifying admission to your top-choice university. You’re fairly confident about your chances. You have a 3.9 grade…

  • Downzoning plan approved by board

    Planning board approves plan to increase lot sizes from 3 to 10 acres in many areas of township By: Scott Morgan    SPRINGFIELD — After three and a half hours of impassioned pleas, accusations, alternative theories and cries of un-Americanism, the Planning Board OK’d an unpopular downzoning plan Tuesday night that will reshape the future of…

  • Honoring freedom’s warriors

    South Brunswick pays tribute to those who have served in the nation’s armed forces. By: Joseph Harvie    Veterans of the armed forces were honored Friday in a ceremony that included the laying of wreaths around the township’s Veterans Memorial at the Municipal Building.    Dozens of spectators, many wearing jackets representing the Army, Navy, Air Force…

  • Municpal Building to turn up the heat

    The new heating system at town hall is expected to be installed by the Nov. 21 target date. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Township employees may be able to disconnect the portable heaters they have been using to warm up their offices by the end of this week, according to township officials.    The Municipal Building has…

  • ‘Inspecting Carol’

    Like 40 Productions revisits Daniel Sullivan’s popular holiday comedy at Kelsey Theatre. By:Stuart Duncan    It’s getting to the point where there are almost as many productions of Inspecting Carol as there are in the area of the classic Dickens tale A Christmas Carol. The former is the brainchild of Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Rep…

  • Another solid campaign for SBHS tennis squad

    By: Rich Fisher    The South Brunswick High girls tennis team has not yet reached the rarified air of East Brunswick and J.P. Stevens, but the Vikings are holding steady in a pretty good comfort zone.    South finished with another strong season in 2005, going 12-6-1 overall and 8-3-1 in the Greater Middlesex Conference’s Red Division.…

  • ‘To Tell Tall Tales’

    Will Hubscher recycles people in his work on view at the Artists’ Gallery. By: Susan Van Dongen    Heads up, anyone with shoeboxes filled with old family photos. Those snapshots are getting to be worth big bucks to contemporary artists and collectors of "found photography."    Multi-media artist Will Hubscher says vintage photos have risen steeply in…