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  • Traditions and Innovations

    Artists from CanalWorks studio in Bristol exhibit paintings, glass and fiber art in styles that run the gamut By: Amy Brummer TimeOFF photos by Amy Brummer "Equus Antiquus" by Joe Porcelli. The artists who rent studio space at CanalWorks in Bristol are a diverse lot. From representational watercolors to handcrafted fibers, even abstract stained glass,…

  • Students sang their parts in San Francisco

    Selected to join special honors chorus at educators convention By:Marnie Kunz    Hillsborough Elementary teacher Nina Sutcliffe always knew her choir students had amazing talent. Last year, two voices especially struck her—those of Daniela Traina and Sybelle Van Twerp.    In January, Ms. Sutcliffe urged the two stellar third-grade singers to send in audition tapes to a…

  • Manville ESL students perform wellon annual state report card test

    By:Marnie Kunz    Students in the Manville School District demonstrate excellent English skills, statistics show, even with a large number who don’t speak English as a first language.    In the New Jersey Department of Education’s annual schools report card, Manville schools include many Spanish and Polish-speaking students, most of whom scored well on the English proficiency…

  • LETTER: Prodromo for the future

    To the editor:     At a time when our school system boasts the highest SAT scores in many years as well as two years of budget increases under 5 percent, I feel that we should not only be celebrating our successes but also making sure that we keep moving in a positive direction. We should…

  • Spring has sprung and tidy is the name of the game

    MY TAKE by Rose McGlew    Spring cleaning is starting at the McGlew house. Outgrown turtlenecks start collecting in the bottom of the giveaway bag. Slowly, the bag begins to fill up with jeans that are suddenly too short and sweats that are suddenly too tight. Faded sweaters follow and suit jackets with three-quarter length sleeves…

  • Bernice Impellizeri

    By:    SOMERSET — Bernice Margaret Impellizeri died April 1 at the McCarrick Care Center. She was 75.    She was a longtime resident of Manville before moving to Somerset.    Mrs. Impellizeri was a nurse’s aide at Somerset Medical Center and later became a licensed practical nurse working for many years at Green Brook Hospital before retiring.…

  • ‘Hellboy’

    The forces of evil want to unleash hell on earth – and they succeed with the viewers forced to sit through 132 minutes of this film. By: Jim Boyle    The future and stability of the comic-book movie genre looks pretty good if a major studio is willing to put up a large sum of money…

  • Weather creates chaos for MHS sports teams

    No events held in first five days of April By: Rudy Brandl        The last thing Steve Venuto wanted to see was a pair of rainouts on the first two days of the 2004 baseball season.    The veteran Manville High skipper, a former standout pitcher at Middlesex, knows all about what happens when the schedule…

  • Timberlane eighth-graders get lesson on government, voting

    Mayor Jim Loper, the instructor, taught social studies at Hopewell Valley Central High School for 24 years. By John Tredrea    It was a student comment an experienced teacher would pick up and run with to make a point, so Jim Loper did.    Once again this year, Project Democracy — a school/community effort to get people…