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  • Hopewell grant by Beazer Homes entices homebuyers

    The spacious townhomes at Hopewell Grant range from 1,550 to 2,285 square feet and feature three bedrooms, two and a half baths and two-car garages in a beautiful wooded setting. Finding a new home is about more than finding the right house. It’s about the right community, the right schools and the right distance from…

  • Buried Treasure

    The Michener Museum exhibits more than 50 ‘Objects of Desire’ at its New Hope, Pa., satellite. By: Megan Sullivan    Master woodworker and furniture maker George Nakashima, who lived in New Hope, Pa., beginning in the mid-1940s, allowed the form of the wood he used to dictate the shape of the pieces he designed. While a…

  • Lady Mustangs rise to occasion under lights

    Team wins first for Coach Shambach By: John Beisser        Prime time, bright lights, big crowd, huge victory.    That pretty much sums up last Friday evening for the Manville High girls’ soccer team, which notched the first victory in the Mike Shambach era with a resounding 4-1 conquest of North Plainfield.    Playing a home opener…

  • Merrill Lynch fields could be ready for play next year

    Vanessa Sandom: "New proposal would make 30 acres on the west side of Scotch Road available for leveling and seeding this year." By Ruth Luse    As many as six new athletic fields could be ready for play next year if Hopewell Township officials and Merrill Lynch formalize an agreement that grew out of the legal…

  • NBC girls’ soccer drops back to the .500 mark

    The breaks just didn’t go the Greyhounds’ way. By:Sean Moylan    Although the Northern Burlington county Regional High School girls’ varsity soccer team continued to play well, the breaks just didn’t seem to go in the Greyhounds’ favor this past week.    A good case in point was last Thursday’s home game against Moorestown. NBC goalie Sammie…

  • School security goes high-tech

    Cameras, motion detectors and intercom systems are being installed in schools to make them safer. By: Donna Lukiw    If students think they’re being watched more closely this year, it may be because of improved security systems installed at Manville schools.    Superintendent Donald Burkhardt updated Board of Education members on the progress of the security projects…

  • NBC girls’ tennis team battles back to improve to 4-4 on year

    Veteran squad knew its strengths and weaknesses — and that it could win a lot of matches. By:Sean Moylan    Even after the Northern Burlington County Regional High School girl’ varsity tennis team started the season 1-3, it never panicked or looked for excuses. That’s because Megan Levine’s squad is a veteran group that knows what…

  • LETTERS: Don’t end SRO program

    To the editor:     It has recently come to our attention that our national award-winning School Resource Officer program has been eliminated from our elementary schools. Last year, the SRO program in South Brunswick was chosen as the "model agency" out of all the SRO programs in the country. We find it unacceptable that this…

  • Glenn Avenue resident appointed to Board of Education

    Robin Bridges Johnson will fill the remainder of former school board member Michael Wilson, who resigned last month. The seat’s term expires in April 2006. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Robin Bridges Johnson, a former school board member who served in the early 1990s, has been appointed to fill an unexpired term on the Lawrence Township…