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  • Volunteers helpful, and cheerful

    To the editor     I wanted to publicly say thank you to the policemen and the volunteers of the Rescue Squad.    On Sunday evening, Jan. 5, my family and I were in need of their help. I had fallen, face first, down the entire flight of my cellar stairs. The fall alone was very scary…

  • Planning for smallpox outbreak, just in case

    Millstone, Mnmouth County health officials devise plan for mass vaccination. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — A little over a year after the Northeast fell victim to an anthrax scare, township officials are preparing to combat something worse.    Through a joint agreement with the Monmouth County Health Department, Millstone is finalizing preparations for vaccinating its residents…

  • Millstone’s chief financial officer to resign

    Joe Monzo accepts job with the state. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — The township’s chief financial officer has announced he will resign his post by the end of this month.    Joe Monzo, who was hired as the township’s CFO last March, announced last week that he will leave his position on Jan. 31. According to…

  • For Peter Pantages, service was doing the best for others

    Former Allentown Councilman reflects on 16 years of service to borough. By: Cynthia Koons    ALLENTOWN — It was a sweet 16 years for Peter Pantages.    Accomplishments, friendships aplenty and service above all — that’s how he’ll remember his tenure as an Allentown Borough Council member.    Mr. Pantages notified the council on Jan. 2 has was…

  • Cafeteria employee out with hepatitis

    Students safe, say officials By: Rebecca Tokarz    School and township health officials say students are not at risk to contract hepatitis A, even though a food service employee tested positive for it last week.    The food handler had been on staff since December, working shifts at the high school, Indian Fields, Constable, Greenbrook and Brunswick…

  • Families pledge to provide ‘safe homes’

    Program seeks promise to supervise teenage gatherings to prevent drug use    Each year, Hillsborough families are asked to protect their children from drugs and alcohol by pledging to supervise teen-age gatherings as part of the Safe Homes program sponsored by the Life Skills Committee.    The pledge asks parents to agree to not allow parties when…

  • Week of Jan. 23

    Helen Ludwigson    PLUMSTED — Helen Ludwigson, 88, of New Egypt died Jan. 11 at Bartley Healthcare in Jackson.    Born in St. Louis, Mo., she was a resident of New Egypt for seven years and previously lived in Woodbridge.    She was a self-employed seamstress in Woodbridge and attended the Church of Assumption in New Egypt.    Wife…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Knife-wielding assailant killed by police

    Teaneck man shot after attacking prominent Princetonian William Sword Jr. in his home. By: David Campbell    Princeton Township police shot dead a 24-year-old Teaneck man early Thursday morning after he gained entry to home of a prominent Princeton family and attacked the homeowner with a kitchen knife.    William Sword Jr., 51, of 1036 The Great…

  • Additional class spacesought for Roosevelt

    District looks at relocating Board of Education offices again By:Sally Goldenberg    The Manville Board of Education is seeking to move its offices from the Roosevelt School, in order to free up classroom space for the school.    Superintendent of Schools Donald Burkhardt said the space could translate into three and a half classrooms, which would be…