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  • Plumsted schools prepare for space crunch

    Teachers to use any available areas for lessons. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — Education on wheels may not exactly be the wave of the future, but for the township school district it will have to do for now.    For the 2002-03 school year, space in the district’s three schools, said Superintendent Gerald Woehr, will be…

  • BOOK NOTES: Back to school in books

    "Loser," "Big Mouth," "Picture Day," "Third Grade Stinks." Memorable phrases from school days? By: Joan Ruddiman Actually, these are some of the titles of books Lynne Burke in Reading Today suggests to parents and kids who are facing another school year, and maybe some school phobias. School is an anxious time for everyone in the…

  • Military tours continuefor tribute band

    Group continues tour of military bases By:Alec Moore    From local points along the east coast to the far east of Asia and most recently to the Balkan nations of Macedonia and Kosovo, Hillsborough native Valerie Hnasko has gone around the world and back to support U.S. military troops stationed overseas.    As the star and lead…

  • Beatrice Renk

       Beatrice L. Renk, 89, died Saturday, Aug. 24, at The Medical Center at Princeton.    Born and raised in Monmouth Junction, she graduated in 1933 from New Jersey State Teachers College. She taught grade school in Kingston for a brief time before returning to Monmouth Junction to teach kindergarten. She retired in 1979 after teaching for…

  • Murder suspect attempts suicide

    Michael Janecki tries to take his life while in jail By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Michael Janicki, the 19-year-old accused of stabbing his father to death, tried to kill himself Aug. 21, said Michael Abode, the warden at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center where Mr. Janicki is being held.    Mr. Janicki attempted to suffocate himself…

  • Brazen burglars in Hillsborough

    Residents at home when thieves entered through unlocked doors By:Alec Moore    Police are looking for some extremely brazen burglars.    According to police, two homes in the area of Gemini Drive and Meadowbrook Drive, as well as four cars and two garages also in the area, were burglarized.    The thefts occurred the morning of Aug. 23.…

  • ‘The Good Girl’

    Headed by Jennifer Aniston, quirky characters populate a cartoon-like discount store in a film set in the Lone Star State.   [R] By: Bob Brown    The Last Picture Show (1971) established small-town life in Texas as worthy of big-screen treatment. The triumphs and tragedies of modest people, with modest ambitions and real problems, marked the passing away…

  • New business administrator welcomed in Mansfield Township school system

    Lisa Giovanelli replaces recently retired Karen Bailey By:Lauren Davis    MANSFIELD — John Hydock Elementary School will have many new faces on the first day of school on Sept. 4 at 8:45 a.m. There will be kindergartners starting their academic careers, students who have recently moved into the district and newly hired teachers and staff members.…

  • Panel tables choosing new village name

    Committee to choose from over two dozen names By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD —Township Committee members mulled over a list of almost 30 possible names for the new planned village center at its Aug. 22 committee meeting, but were unable to reach a decision, tabling the long-awaited naming until next month.    The committee promised it would…