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  • POLICE BLOTTER

       Police are seeking information regarding a report of a male seen looking into a second floor bathroom window while standing on the first floor roof of a Meadowbrook Drive apartment at 6:22 a.m., March 10.    The man was described as being approximately 15-25 years of age wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and a baseball cap…

  • EDITOR’S NOTE: Classroom highlights

    EDITOR’S NOTE By Hank Kalet: How and why the Schools Page is put together. By: Hank Kalet    There are about 40,000 people in South Brunswick and about one-fifth of them attend one of the district’s 10 schools.    And two out of every three property tax dollars raised in the township is sent to the schools.…

  • Changing Hands

    After 28 successful years with Ralph Miller at the helm, Bucks County Playhouse may soon have new ownership and nonprofit status. By: Daniel Shearer Staff photos by Daniel Shearer The recently formed nonprofit group Theater Restoration Inc. is hoping to buy Bucks County Playhouse from Ralph Miller (below).    Developers have been eyeballing Bucks County Playhouse…

  • Search for cuts delays budget

    Reductions totaling $1 million found, but committee says another $700,000 needed By:Roger Alvarado    The Township Committee held off on introducing a tentative budget that would have called for a $67 tax hike for the owner of a property assessed at the township average of $350,000 in favor of finding further savings for taxpayers, Tuesday.    A…

  • No MHS wrestlers in Region 5 field

    Babich, Zala could make cut next year By: Rudy Brandl    FLEMINGTON — Manville High head wrestling coach Brett Stibitz watched last weekend’s Region 5 Tournament, hoping he’d get a chance to coach one of his own grapplers on the mats at the Hunterdon Central Fieldhouse someday soon.    It’s been two years since the Mustangs sent…

  • Josephine Cuoco

       MANVILLE — Josephine E. Cuoco died Sunday, March 7, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 87.    Born in Hoboken, she had been a resident of Manville since 1949.    Mrs. Cuoco worked for RCA in Bridgewater for many years, then worked for Singer of Bridgewater, retiring in 1979.    She was a communicant of Christ the…

  • Alicja Nowak

       HILLSBOROUGH — Alicja "Alice" (Cyprys) Nowak died March 1 at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 79.    Born in Poland, she resided in Manville before settling in Hillsborough 36 years ago.    Mrs. Nowak was a homemaker.    Her husband, Edward M. Nowak, died in January.    Surviving are two daughters, Ursula of Cranford and Christine…

  • Mustangs had many obstacles to overcome

    Boys’ basketball team finished 5-15 By: Shawn Tyrrell        The final game of 2003-04 boys’ basketball season said it all as Newark Tech defeated Manville 78-54.    The contest concluded the MHS campaign, which saw the team post an unimpressive 5-15 mark. It was a year that seemed to have issues from day one, and there…

  • March 11, 6:16 p.m.

    The suspension of Canuck player who assaulted Steve Moore o the ice was not nearly long enough. By: Hank Kalet    Here is what ESPN’s Daily Quickie had to say about the mugging that Todd Bertuzzi applied to Steve Moore during the Canuck-Avalance contest the other night. Moore is in the hospital with a neck fracture…