Category: archives
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St. Paul’s to hold ribbon-cutting for lab, parking area
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and blessing of the parish’s newly landscaped grounds and parking lot and the new St. Paul’s School science lab Sunday afternoon. Monsignor Walter E. Nolan will be joined by St. Paul’s School Principal Elizabeth Barrella, church members, children and representatives from the Diocese of Trenton…
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POLICE BEAT
Police charged two township girls with a curfew violation at 2:25 a.m. Tuesday. According to police, a 16-year-old Alden Avenue girl and a 17-year-old West Third Street girl were verbally abusing passers-by outside the Route 130 Wawa. Both were released to their parents, pending a court appearance, police said. * * * Freddy Colon, of…
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High school business club ready for more success
FBLA launches new year By:Paul Szaniawski Manville High School’s Back-to-School Night had something extra a candy sale run by the students in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) that helped raise $170 for the March of Dimes Foundation. FBLA is a nonprofit national association of students preparing for careers in business-related fields. Manville’s…
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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…
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$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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
