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  • Prep school honored for service to children

    School got Cherish the Children Organization Award in recognition of a decade of hosting December holiday party for the homeless.    The Pennington School was honored for its service to children of Mercer County on April 28.    The Cherish the Children Foundation and the Mercer County Commission on Abused, Neglected and Missing Children presented a Cherish…

  • MHS track and field team fall short on depth

    Mustangs look ahead to bigger meets By: Rudy Brandl        Depth is crucial in dual meets and relay events, which explains why the Manville High track and field team fell short in last week’s competitions.    The Mustangs received some solid contributions from individual athletes but didn’t have enough firepower to make significant noise at the…

  • Postal carriers set ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ drive Saturday

       The annual "Stamp Out Hunger" campaign of the National Association of Letter Carriers will be held Saturday, in collaboration with the U.S. Postal Service and co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Campbell’s, United Way and America’s Second Harvest.    Postal patrons are asked to leave nonperishable food donations in boxes or cans (no glass) by their mailboxes. Suggested…

  • Board retains middle school officials

    LMS policies draw fire and praise at meeting. By: Lea Kahn    The principal and vice principal of Lawrence Middle School, whose discipline policies became the butt of comedians jokes on national television, have survived the controversy with their jobs intact.    Despite strong criticism from a handful of parents, the Lawrence Township Board of Education voted…

  • Borough may remove lieutenant

    Fieldsboro may remove suspended police lieutenant, John McElwee. By: Scott Morgan    FIELDSBORO — Case summary briefs are due this week in the case that could decide the future of the borough’s suspended police lieutenant.    The disciplinary hearings on the case of Lt. John McElwee, whom the borough suspended with pay in September, concluded last week,…

  • Sharon Arms scarred in blaze

    A candle was the cause of a three-alarm fire at Sharon Arms apartment complex in Washington Township. By: Rob Heyman    WASHINGTON — Fire officials say a candle was to blame for a three-alarm fire that damaged several apartments in a section of the Sharon Arms complex Saturday and left several families there without a place…

  • Harrison tapped to guide Rider women’s hoops

    Former GW assistant takes over for retired Eldon Price By: Jim Green    New Rider University women’s basketball coach Tori Elaine Harrison won’t promise an immediate turnaround for the Broncs in the standings, but she will guarantee one thing.    "We’re going to play hard and work hard no matter what happens," she said. "Whatever else is…

  • Letters to the Editor, May 6, 2004

    Want to help? To the editor:     I see in the April 29 HVN that the Township Committee has approved $2,893,997.00 in bonds for various township improvements. Aren’t "bonds" just a variation of a loan? Aren’t loans paid back with interest?    I’m pretty much of the opinion that a budget should be based on the…

  • Dump truck spill closes Promenade

    By: Matthew Kirdahy    Police closed Promenade Boulevard for three hours Wednesday morning after an overturned dump truck spilled sand and gasoline onto the road.    According to police, Thomas Ortiz Jr., 38, of Staten Island, N.Y., lost control of his 2001 Freightliner owned by the Avenel-based A&V Spada Trucking, heading east on Promenade Boulevard toward Route…