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  • MANVILLE: High school lists semester’s top students

    Achievers make honor roll grades    Manville High School has named the students who achieved the high honor and honor rolls for the fourth marking period of the school year.    HONOR ROLL    Grade 9: Natalie Barnes, Paul Basta, Kate Bowden, Emily Caswell, William Caswell, Joseph Conti, Nicolle Dzuba, Justin Faulkner, Haylee Furka, Aleksandra Kaczor, Brian Kuhlman,…

  • MANVILLE: Exercise, health tests offered to seniors

    Senior Center activities    The Manville Senior Center opens weekdays in Fire Company No. 1 at 20 So. Third Ave.    The center is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.    A suggested lunch donation of $1.50 is recommended for individuals age 60 and older. The cost of lunch for those younger than age 60 is $5.35. Call 908-369-8700…

  • MANVILLE: Always beware the dangers of water

    Its force comes upon us from higher elevations far distant from us    Over the last month, New Jersey’s weather has turned into a mushy, oppressive subtropical soup — just another reminder of the uncertain modern climate that is always a threat to whack us when we get too comfortable.    There’s been a lot of water…

  • MANVILLE: Concert coming to library on July 30

    Library Happenings column    The free July outdoor concert by Rave On, which performs music of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and other legends of early rock-n-roll music, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, July 30, from 7-8:30pm in the parking lot of the library library at 100 So. 10th Ave. Bring your lawn chair.    * * *…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Community calendar, issue of July 11

    Bowling for Billy helps youth’s family    Sat., July 13 — Carolyn Tighe will host a Bowl for Billy fundraiser at Strike ‘n Spare Lanes in Green Brook, 8-10 p.m. Tickets at $20 each include two hours of bowling, shoes, dessert, coffee and three raffle tickets for gift baskets. Email Carolyn at [email protected]. Auxiliary sponsors outside flea markets…

  • MANVILLE: GOP team pledges to talk about issues

    Manville council campaign statement To the editor:    I certainly have to wonder how different the outcome would have been when I ran for mayor two years ago if my opponent stuck to the issues confronting Manville. I put forth a vision and communicated my position on the issues while my Democratic opponent, Mayor Corradino, plays…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Officer retires after 24 years
  • MANVILLE: Chris Christie’s still an anti-middle class guy

    He’s called ‘an egotistical elitist’ To the editor:    As a New Jersey voter, I have always voted for the candidate whose ideology best represented the interest of the middle class and poor of New Jersey. Chris Christie is not that candidate. Chris Christie is an egotistical elitist who has done very little for the middle…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Book discussion dissects ‘real’ Downton Abbey

    O’Reilly’s "Killing Lincoln" will be debated, too    Two book discussions are scheduled next week at the Hillsborough Public Library, 379 South Branch Road.    A conversation group will continue to explore “Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey,” the drama and history behind the “Downton Abbey” television series, on Thursday, July 18, at 3 p.m. Refreshments…