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  • Carlisle competes in Junior Olympics

    Local boy to run in three track events By: Ian Theodridis    Of the thousands of students trained by Lawrenceville School speed and conditioning coach Duane Carlisle, perhaps the most notable has not even started middle school yet.    That student is his son, Amir Carlisle, who this fall will enter 5th grade at the Waldorf School…

  • Prestigious group invites township clerk to join

    By:Alec Moore    Ann Marie McCarthy, Hillsborough’s township clerk and a resident of North 9th Street in Manville, is continuing her professional career development.    Earlier this month, Ms. McCarthy was accepted into an educational program — run under the auspices of the International Institute of Municipal Clerks — through which she hopes to obtain master municipal…

  • Teach to the test?

    Algebra instruction reviewed after disappointing GEPA results By:Beth Kressel    Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment math scores must improve, Superintendent Robert Gulick said in a presentation to the Board of Education Monday night.    In his review of 2002-03 school year goals and what was achieved and what wasn’t, Dr. Gulick focused on the 114 eighth-graders — or…

  • Student won’t let dream of volleyball get spiked

    Amy Burgener is working to raise the necessary money to form a varsity team at Hillsborough High School By:Beth Kressel    Even while re-siding houses, constructing backyard decks and helping out at vacation Bible school in West Virginia, Amy Burgener, 16, had "volleyball on the brain," to use her own words.    She performed the community service…

  • Letters to the Editor, July 24, 2003

    Open space is critical To the editor:     I am writing in response to a letter entitled "Insatiable appetite," penned by Michael and Johanna Serbin.    I am well aware of the septic/sewer problems plaguing certain areas in Hopewell Township. Truly, I sympathize with anyone experiencing the dilemma of this ongoing issue. However, I don’t see…

  • Stella Zujkowski

       MANVILLE – Stella (Janusz) Zujkowski died Saturday, July 19, at the Raritan Health and Extended Care Center in Raritan. She was 93.    Born in Fall River, Mass., she was a resident of Manville for over 80 years.    Mrs. Zujkowski was a retired seamstress for Diehl Manufacturing, formerly in the Finderne section of Bridgewater, where she…

  • New hire experience seems to be steady

    Analysis shows special eduction hires remain qualified. By: Lea Kahn`    The majority of newly hired staff members in the school district’s special education department have at least some level of experience, despite some parents’ claims that they do not.    An analysis of new hires in the Lawrence Township School District department in 2002 and 2003…

  • Board OKs new MHS discipline guidelines

    By:Beth Kressel    Detention during regular school hours can be given to Manville High School students starting this fall after the Board of Education approved a set of disciplinary guidelines at its meeting July 13.    Superintendent Donald Burkhardt said that the new regulation reflects the improved finances of the school district. The school budget has passed…

  • Ann Farano

       MANVILLE – Ann Farano died Sunday, July 20, at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 78.    Born in Manville, she was a lifelong resident.    Mrs. Farano was a homemaker.    She was a communicant of St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church in Hillsborough.    Her husband, Charles Farano, died in 1992.    Surviving are two sons, Charles Jr. of…