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  • Harriers off to fast start

    MUSTANG ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High cross country team has already won more meets this year than in the past two seasons combined.    After splitting a tri-meet with Bound Brook and host North Plainfield, the Mustangs (2-1) rolled past South River on the road Thursday afternoon. Manville defeated North Plainfield (18-37) and…

  • $4.9M slated for mill work

    Environmental Protection Agency allocates funds to restart clean-up of former Roebling Steel Mill site. By: Scott Morgan    ROEBLING — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it will provide $4.9 million in diverted funds to restart cleanup work at the former Roebling Steel Mill plant — news that gives local officials mixed emotions.    Earlier this…

  • Oct. 2, 4:42 p.m.: Kurtz off base, as usual

    Post columnist wastes our time. By: Hank Kalet    Howard Kurtz today in The Washington Post proves that his column on the media has become fairly useless.    A close read will show that (a) it really is nothing more than a string of long quotations from a series of other news articles published elsewhere and (b)…

  • Golf Classic pays for growing scholarship fund

    HEF event is one of two events providing funding for local programs By:John Patten    Before the Hillsborough Education Foundation can present scholarships to local high school graduates, or offer computer classes to senior citizens or help fund classroom projects throughout the district, the group must find a way to pay for it all.    And over…

  • Colts making it look easy

    MYAL FOOTBALL By: John E. Powers        From a spectator’s standpoint, it might be hard to tell the difference between one Manville Colts rout and another. But Colts’ coach Bob "Bubba" Petrone is looking for improvement following Sunday’s 25-0 conquest of Middlesex at Cook Field.    The Colts have hit the mid-point of the season at…

  • REACH program focuses on creative approach to education

    Hillsborough’s program held up as an example of how to offer programs without breaking budgets By:Beth Kressel    Hillsborough’s Reach Explore Academic and Creative Heights program was recently presented as an example of programs that work.    The REACH is one of three Central Jersey gifted and talented programs highlighted at a regional conference in Trenton Sept.…

  • Lawrence regroups after Sept. 23 tornado

    Township files damage reports; may qualify for aid. By: Lea Kahn    Ten days after a tornado left its mark on Lawrence Township, the Department of Public Works is still picking up the pieces — branches, twigs and other debris that homeowners have swept into the curb.    In the meantime, the township has filed damage reports…

  • Pennington church to hold 30th Harvest Festival Saturday

    The church’s first Harvest Festival was held in 1965, when Jo Williams led an effort to create the fair by the Women’s Association of Pennington Presbyterian Church. By John Tredrea    Live music, arts and crafts, food, games for young and old, pumpkin painting and many other offerings for the free enjoyment of the greater Hopewell…

  • Work begins on Kendall Park Shopping Center

    Cinema building is torn down for new pharmacy. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    Jagged floor-to-ceiling holes mark the wall of the former Kendall Park Cinema on Route 27.    A heap of twisted metal that appears to contain remains of the marquee sits in front of the building.    The wreckage is what remains of the cinema building, which…