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  • Campers helping out pantry

    Local campers help stock township food pantry. By: Melissa Hayes    The shelves at the township food pantry are a fuller thanks to township campers.    Children in the township’s Recreation Department two-week summer camps helped bring in much needed items.    Campers in the first session collected jelly and Parmalat. Campers in the second session brought in…

  • Manville takes lead role in animal control study

    Grant also will help the borough determine the feasibility of expanding its animal shelter services. By: Melissa Edmond    Manville will undertake a study of the possibility of sharing animal control services and an animal facility, thanks to a $20,000 SHARE grant awarded to the borough Aug. 11 by the state Department of Community Affairs.    The…

  • Minding the store

    Manville couple manage one of area’s last farm stands. By: John Patten    Monday afternoon, a steady stream of traffic pulls into the Orchard Drive farm stand operated by Jackson Avenue residents Matt and Joanne Fierst, one of two remaining stands offering vegetables grown on site in Hillsborough.    The customers, like Hillsborogh resident Norma Blomquist, come…

  • For the Aug. 18 issue

    Hazel Bell Lesko, John G. Payakovich, Betty L. Cavallo, Mary Innocenzi Di Matteo, Louis F. Bartolone Sr., Robert H. Corp, Helen Fauver, Catherine M. Young. Hazel Bell Lesko    WHITING — Hazel Bell Lesko, 82, died Saturday at the Whiting Health Care Center.    She was born in Gettysburg, Pa. and had resided in Florida and New…

  • SENIOR CORNER

    Events for seniors in Manville.    The Manville Senior Citizens meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of each month in the VFW located on Washington Avenue. The club is open to new members who are residents of Manville, age 60 or older and 55 if disabled.    Food donations and soup labels will continue to be…

  • MYAL football program still needs players

    Ponies done, Colts may not play By: John E. Powers        A shortage of football players has claimed at least one of the Manville Youth Athletic League Pop Warner teams and possibly two.    Raritan Valley Conference commissioner Cliff Fitzgerald told MYAL commissioner Mark Matisak Monday night that the league couldn’t give the Colts and Pony…

  • For the Aug. 18 issue

    Elizabeth Friedrich. Elizabeth Friedrich    BURLINGTON — Elizabeth "Betty" Friedrich, 89, died Aug. 14 at Lourdes Medical Center, Burlington.    Born in Hornerstown, she was a resident of Burlington for 52 years.    Ms. Friedrich was a 1931 graduate of Allentown High School and a member of the Broad Street United Methodist Church in Burlington.    She worked for…

  • Board sets up temporary phone number

    Due to delay, Board of Education gets alternate phone line. By: Melissa Hayes    Due to a delay in phone extension transfers to the new board office on Black Horse Lane, the Board of Education is asking members of the public to temporarily use an alternate phone number.    The administrative offices and Community Education can be…

  • Student seeks career behind the camera

    Lawrenceville Prep senior awaits word if his short film won an award in the Doritos Fresh Films competition. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Tyrone Rhabb was in the fourth grade when he set his heart on a career as a filmmaker.    This summer, the 17-year-old Lawrenceville School senior learned first-hand what it takes to prepare a…