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  • For Fuller, two events are better than one

    Lawrence outdoor track By: Jim Green    It had gotten to the point where Janelle Fuller wasn’t sure she even wanted to throw the discus anymore.    The Lawrence High School junior, preferring to focus on the shot put — where she is among the best in the state — had only been competing in the discus…

  • Errors lead to first MHS baseball loss

    Offense still looking to break out By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High baseball team needed to play a solid all-around game to defeat Valley Division rival Jonathan Dayton in Springfield last Thursday.    Manville simply doesn’t have enough offensive firepower to offset the damages done by four errors in the first three innings of a…

  • Yang anxious to lead young Vikes

    By: Ken Weingartner    Josh Yang knows what it’s like to be new to varsity volleyball and struggle with confidence and consistency against established teams.    He also knows what hard work and dedication can produce in a short amount of time.    Now, the senior will try to provide this knowledge to an extremely young South Brunswick…

  • LETTERS: A generous gift from North Fork

    To the editor:     On behalf of Charleston Place residents, I want to thank North Fork Bank for its kindness in donating "Emergency Bags" to all of us.    They will help us to be prepared to evacuate our apartments with our personal belongings should the need arise.    This was very generous and the bank has…

  • Hopewell Valley principal gets in-school suspension

    For the sake of reading, Bruce Arcurio was raised to the rafters of the school gym. By John Tredrea    Being principal of an elementary school means doing many things.    For Bruce Arcurio last Friday, one of them was strapping on a rock-climbing harness and being raised to the rafters of the school gym during an…

  • Fixing ordinance typo to help homeowners

    Change primarily affects Country Classics residents By:Melissa Edmond    Some Hillsborough residents may find it easier to build a deck or pave a stone driveway if an ordinance introduced at Tuesday’s Township Committee meeting is passed.    Committeeman Steven Sireci Jr. said the ordinance was a correction to an earlier ordinance affecting the impervious surface limits for…

  • Katherine Dziedzina

    By:    MANVILLE — Katherine M. Dziedzina died April 7. She was 91.    Funeral services were held April 11 from Fucillo and Warren Funeral Home in Manville, followed by a funeral liturgy at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Manville.

  • School district breaks ground

    A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new high school building slated to open in September of 2006 off Cedar Lane in Florence. By: Scott Morgan    FLORENCE — Ground was broken Tuesday afternoon on the district’s long-anticipated new high school building off Cedar Lane, and for school officials, the event engendered the best of what…

  • Cardinals drop the ball in loss at WW-P North

    Lawrence baseball By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School baseball team can’t afford these kinds of mistakes.    The Cardinals, while certainly improved, still have a small margin for error when facing the upper-echelon teams in the Colonial Valley Conference. So it comes as no surprise that they were unable to overcome five unearned runs Monday…