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  • Pennington woman headsEnable’s holiday effort

    By Janet Purcell    Pennington resident, Sharon J. B. Copeland, executive director of Enable, Inc., is heading the organization’s annual Holiday Gift Basket Program.    The nonprofit organization — which offers community services to individuals with disabilities — currently is serving approximately 250 individuals, referred to as "consumers," in Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset counties. It is…

  • To Wenonah Brooks, ‘singing is storytelling’

    Hopewell singer lauded by the late Philly Joe Jones By John Tredrea    How good a jazz singer is Hopewell’s Wenonah Brooks?    Better than good, said none less than Philly Joe Jones.    The late Mr. Jones, who died in 1985 after playing thousands of sessions behind just about everybody who was anybody in his genre, was…

  • Look who’s here

    MHS Class of ’82 celebrates 20 years By:Mary Ellen Zangara    The members of Manville High School’s Class of 1982 got together recently for their 20th class reunion.    Sixty of the 169 graduates gathered at St. Mary’s Parish center on Brooks Boulevard for a memorable night.    Donna (Tomaszfski) and husband/classmate Bob Szymanowksi, Shirley (Iarkowski) and her…

  • Upper Freehold won’t join residents’ lawsuit

    But township officials say they’ll continue to investigate potential traffic problems associated with proposed Matrix warehouse project. By: Scott Morgan    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Township Committee will continue to look into potential traffic problems surrounding the proposed 5.58 million-square-foot Matrix warehouse project, but will not join a recently filed lawsuit.    On Nov. 27, Residents for…

  • District seeks to attract more minorities

    Nearly 95 percent of Lawrence public school teachers are white By: Lea Kahn    There are more than 300 classroom teachers in the Lawrence Township public school system — 95 percent of whom are white. Blacks, Hispanics and Asian or Pacific Islanders make up the remaining 5 percent, according to school district statistics.    But a peek…

  • Good neighbors

    Township sells extra fire truck to Manville for $1 By:Alec Moore    In the spirit of providing mutual aid whenever possible, the Hillsborough Fire Department has given the Manville Fire Department a new firefighting tool.    The tool in question is a 1985 fire pumper truck, a small fire truck capable of traversing rough terrain and fighting…

  • Board may increase time students spend with guidance counselors

    School Board to consider requiring students to spend more time with their guidance counselors. By: Rebecca Tokarz    The school board is considering increasing the amount of time students and counselors meet each month as a way to maximize the amount of personalized attention and advocacy high school students receive.    The board considered three plans Monday…

  • Shapiro appointed to higher education panel

       Former Princeton University President Harold Shapiro has been named to a 21-member steering committee to plan for the restructuring of the state’s public higher education system.    In October, the report by the Commission on Health Science, Education and Training called for the merger of Rutgers University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University…

  • Millstone takes aim at firearms

    Township officials want to increase public safety without inhibiting hunters. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — The township has taken its first official steps toward formalizing how firearms can be discharged within its borders.    Committeeman Bill Nurko said that he and Township Attorney Duane O. Davison are in the process of drafting an ordinance designed to…