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  • Slow-starting Cards drop two

    Boys basketball By: Jim Green    Just when the Lawrence High School boys basketball team figured out how to close games, it started having trouble opening them.    The Cardinals’ second straight solid fourth-quarter performance was offset by a sluggish first quarter Friday night as Lawrence fell to Hightstown 55-52. Lawrence managed only six points in the…

  • Manville boys continue perfect year on court

    Three more wins make it 7-0 By: Shawn Tyrrell        Winning – oh, how it can change everything.    Last season, the Manville High School boys’ basketball team struggled and managed only three victories for the entire year. That is all just a memory now, as the Mustangs continue to build on a fast start to…

  • School to host contest

       Manville Area Knights of Columbus, St. Jude Council 6573, will be hosting their annual basketball free-throw contest on Sunday at Christ the King Gym on North 13th Avenue in Manville.    The doors will open for registration at 1p.m. The contest is free and open to all Manville boys and girls between 10 –14 years of…

  • Scrappy McCarthy leads Red Radiers to best start

    Ice hockey By: Jim Green    When The Pennington School’s ice hockey team began training for the 2002-03 season, Red Raiders coach Tom Horsley had senior captain Brian McCarthy penciled in for his attacking first line.    But the chemistry simply wasn’t there, so Horsley switched McCarthy to the Red Raiders’ defensive-minded second line, alongside senior Tommy…

  • Jean Otrimski

       MANVILLE — Jean S. Otrimski died Jan. 6 in Integrated Health Services Center of Bridgewater. She was 92.    Born in Throop, Pa., she had been a resident of Manville for many years.    Mrs. Otrimski was employed by the Singer Co. of Finderne, where she worked for over 35 years, retiring in 1956.    She was a…

  • Cardinals suffer letdown after dramatic comeback

    Ice hockey By: Jim Green    Lawrence High School ice hockey coach Andy Borowsky admits he should be feeling better about his team’s recent play.    But he’s not.    The Cardinals snapped their eight-game losing streak last Wednesday against Princeton, coming back from three goals down in the third period to force a 6-6 tie. The next…

  • School district seeking financial partners

    Drop in school aid and rising costs force district to consider outside support By: Cynthia Koons    WASHINGTON — With a name and a vision, Partners in Education, a subcommittee of the Washington Township Board of Education is seeking long-term financial relationships with outside sources to support the incoming high school and growing school district.    Partners…

  • Paid-for park readyto welcome players

    Flagtown Park latest in town’s series of park improvements By:Alec Moore    Gleaming new playground slides and swings and a dirt baseball field are waiting for warm weather at Flagtown Park, but the township isn’t waiting to pay for the work.    The Township Committee appropriated about $31,000 to pay off the remaining balance owed on the…

  • ‘Chicago’

    Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones bring the songs, snappy tone and show biz-y wordplay from Broadway to the silver screen.   [PG-13] By: Elise Nakhnikian    The best place to see Chicago is on Broadway, where the mix of black humor, raw energy and talent in the long-running musical is potent enough to get you high.…