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  • Mustangs enter January still seeking a victory

    Team drops pair at holiday tourney By: Shawn Tyrrell        DUNELLEN — For the Manville High boys’ basketball team, the start to the 2004-05 season has been an inconsistent and challenging one.    Four games into the campaign and the Mustangs have yet to post a win, with losses to Oratory Prep, New Providence, Dunellen and…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    An East Camplain Road resident reported finding a window in the rear of his house broken when he arrived home at 8 p.m. Dec 28.    Unspecified items were taken from the residence. ***    A West Camplain Road resident reported Christmas decorations were taken from her front yard during the night Jan. 1.    Police recovered…

  • The 4-door that doesn’t bore: Subaru Legacy GT sedan

    The 2005 Subaru Legacy features symmetrical all-wheel drive with 45 percent of power directed to the front axle and 55 percent to the rear. By: The 2005 Subaru Legacy features symmetrical all-wheel drive with 45 percent of power directed to the front axle and 55 percent to the rear.    You have seen the used-car newspaper…

  • Council sends six to planning, zoning

    Appointees will serve various terms on boards. By: Lea Kahn    Township Council filled three seats apiece on the Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Adjustment at its first regular meeting of the year Tuesday.    Sarah Crowley of Laurel Wood Drive and Thomas Wilfrid of Cold Soil Road were appointed to four-year terms as regular…

  • MHS teams look ahead to busy January

    Girls, wrestlers hope to make state playoffs By: Rudy Brandl    Manville High’s athletic teams enter the new year with mixed resolutions. Some are entertaining hopes of making the state playoffs, while others are simply looking to get in the win column.    The wrestling team, which opened the 2005 calendar with a tough dual meet at…

  • Township may buy Grange

    Preliminary talks of purchase of Pioneer Grange optomistic. By: Joseph Harvie    The Township Council is interested in buying the historic Pioneer Grange building on Ridge Road and using it as a recreation center for the eastern side of town.    "I think it would be a nice opportunity for the township," Mayor Frank Gambatese said Sunday.…

  • Charles Koze III

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Charles B. Koze III died Dec. 31 in Robert Wood, Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in East Orange, and grew up in Piscataway, where he graduated Piscataway High School. He moved to Hillsborough in 1980.    Mr. Koze was a senior associate at CUH2A in Lawrenceville where he worked as an engineer…

  • Hopewell concerts to benefit church council’s Food Pantry

    Admission to the "Sound Nutrition" concerts is free, but monetary and canned/dry food donations will be received at the door.    On Jan. 16 at 4 p.m., Calvary Baptist Church will sponsor the first in a series of four hour-long benefit concerts to support the Hopewell Council of Churches’ Community Food Pantry.    Admission to the "Sound…

  • Township eyes flood-prone homes

    State grant would allow purchases in Lawrence. By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence Township is in line to receive a $750,000 matching state grant to buy houses in flood-prone areas along the banks of the Shabakunk Creek.    In a Dec. 20 letter from state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bradley Campbell, township officials learned that the township…