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  • Stockton ponders budget needs

    By: Linda Seida    STOCKTON — Officials will try to prioritize the borough’s needs as they hammer out the budget in coming weeks.    Decisions will be based on what the borough can comfortably afford on its relatively small budget, according to Mayor Gregg Rackin.    The mayor could not quote dollar figures for the new budget yet.…

  • ‘Spinning Into Butter’

    Alliance Rep offers Rebecca Gilman’s provocative drama about racial hatred, set on a Vermont college campus. By: Stuart Duncan    Alliance Repertory has been a theater company in search of a home base far too long. It has operated on second stages around the area, even in the basement of a hotel in New Brunswick condemned…

  • Police Blotter

    Lambertville    Police were called to the Apple Inn at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 1 to take a theft report.    The inn’s owner, Virginia Napurano, called when she discovered numerous pieces of Austrian china missing.    The china, valued at more than $900, was stored in a locked room on the third floor of the establishment. Ms. Napurano…

  • The Manville News Staff

    Contact information Street Address 307 Omni Drive Hillsborough, NJ 08876 Phone: (908) 359-0850 Fax: (908) 359-3930 Mailing Address 307 Omni Drive, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 Managing Editor var addressP1="jpatten"; var addressP2="pacpub.com"; var txt="John Patten"; this.document.write(""+txt+"");

  • A sweet look at Valentine’s Day from a chocolate lover

    Holiday provides a great sugar high. By:Vanessa S. Holt    The sugar high that began with a bowl of leftover Halloween candy and ended when the last Christmas tree was placed by the curb is about to get a second wind this weekend when the contents of millions of heart-shaped boxes are devoured by lovers —…

  • A Blank Slate

    Theatre-Intime opens the spring semester with its production of ‘Six Degrees of Separation.’ By: Matt Smith    It’s just after 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night, and the cast and crew of Theatre-Intime’s production of Six Degrees of Separation are hard at work. Two dozen Princeton undergraduates move about the Hamilton-Murray Theater in fits of excitement,…

  • Dairy Club learns life through work with cows

    Sharing a passion for farming, the members of the Mt. Airy Dairy Club enjoy raising cattle and learning life skills through activities centered around the dairy business By:Concetta Benuzzi Volpe    WEST AMWELL — The Mt. Airy Dairy Club is more than just a group of kids who like cows.    It is a small productive community…

  • Voters to decide area fire budgets Saturday

    Districts to ask voters to approve fire tax rate hikes. By:Eve Collins and Vanessa S. Holt    Five area fire districts will ask voters to approve increases in the local fire tax rates in Saturday’s elections.    Only two of the five elections for fire commissioner will be contested.    Following are the proposed budgets and candidates that…

  • EDITORIAL:Judge presecribes common-sense window dressing

    Complaint received of religious overtones of stained-glass window. By:    We commend the recent directive issued by state Superior Court Assignment Judge John Sweeney to cover an old, stained-glass church window during court sessions at the Mansfield Township Municipal Complex.    The window has been displayed in the complex’s courtroom for the past year. Judge Sweeney said…