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  • Manville wrestlers ride manpower advantage

    Team pins down second victory By: Rudy Brandl    The Manville High wrestling team is starting to use manpower as an advantage to win dual meets.    Even without a handful of starters, the Mustangs had more than enough bodies to roll over New Brunswick in last Saturday’s first home match of the New Year. MHS still…

  • Hospital offers FluMist inhalent

       Princeton HealthCare System’s Occupational Medicine Services is offering FluMist, an intranasally administered flu vaccine, to the community as long as supplies last. FluMist is considered as effective as the flu shot.    According to the guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), FluMist can be given only to those persons who are between the…

  • Art auction funds benefit fire company upgrades

    Union Fire Company of Chesterfield, is holding its second annual art auction on Jan. 15. By: Scott Morgan    CHESTERFIELD — Art. It isn’t just for hanging on the wall. In the township this weekend, in fact, art will a source of income for the Union Fire Company, which is holding its second annual art auction…

  • Lawrence swim team does laps around Steinert

    Lawrence swimming By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School swimming teams simply are looking to maintain the status quo until their big showdown Jan. 27 with West Windsor-Plainsboro South.    As it does most years, that meet likely will decide the winner of the Colonial Valley Conference Colonial Division on both the boys and girls sides.…

  • Swim team sunk by Irish

    Hopewell Valley swimming By: John E. Powers    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls and boys swimming teams are making progress — that’s why Monday’s tight losses to Notre Dame might have hurt a bit more.    The boys fell 94-76, while the girls lost 89-81 at The College of New Jersey. The boys dropped to…

  • Construction appeals may have to go to county

    Ordinance introduced to eliminate local Construction Board of Appeals By:Roger Alvarado    Township Committee members introduced an ordinance that, if passed, would eliminate the local Construction Board of Appeals.    The board is currently a five-member body in the township that hears appeals of violations and penalties issued by the township construction official.    Mayor Bob Wagner said…

  • Florence girls’ basketball rewarded for hard work

    By: Sean Moylan    A general "good feeling" has surrounded the Florence Township Memorial High School girls’ varsity basketball team since Vince Cipriano returned to coach the team again last year.    One of the reason for the positive nature of the club is Cipriano often rewards players with starts or extra playing time for their hard…

  • PERCEPTIONS: Hope and despair vie for front row

    The endless dilemma of an avid sports fan. By: Steve Feitl    I’d like to introduce you to two of my very close friends today.    The first friend — we’ll call him Friend A — is somewhat of an optimist. He’s also a huge New York Mets fan, so he was thrilled by the announcement over…

  • Thomas Kurilla

    By:    MANVILLE – Thomas J. Kurilla died Jan. 6 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 75.    Born in Jessup, Pa., he lived in Manville for the past 51 years.    Mr. Kurilla was employed by the John’s Manville Corporation in Manville as a machine operator for 34 years and member of the Quarter Century…