Category: archives
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MHS long jumpers gain county medal
Track team faces Bound Brook today By: Rudy Brandl The Manville High boys’ track team is expecting a tight battle when it visits Bound Brook’s LaMonte field this afternoon. While most of this year’s regular season meets have been lopsided, this one figures to come down to the wire. Jonathan Dayton Regional joins the competition…
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HHS track athletes thankful for coach
Refi building powerhouse program By: Rudy Brandl Jaci Pfeiffer and Matt Lunemann still remember their first day of track and field practice three years ago. It wasn’t a pretty sight. After nearly quitting as freshmen, Pfeiffer and Lunemann have become two of Hillsborough High’s most prominent athletes. Both Raiders attribute their development to track and…
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Inclusive programmingbenefits all students
To the editor Brown versus the Board of Education established that educational policy based on the idea of separate but equal was unconstitutional when segregation is based on race. This was a powerful and important ruling. But this ruling said nothing about segregating students based on other individual differences. Maybe it’s time for a ruling…
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KIDS AND COMMUNITY
Working together to find ways to fight binge drinking By: Judy Shepps Battle Insanity, as purportedly defined by Sigmund Freud, is when one does the same thing over and over and expects different results. By this definition, prevention efforts with regard to binge drinking among college students have been "insane." For the past decade a…
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Shun vealon Mother’s Day
To the editor Sunday, May 12, is Mother’s Day, a day for honoring our mothers and celebrating the importance of the maternal bond. The dairy cow has come to symbolize motherhood throughout the world. Ironically, her offspring are entirely denied her nurture. Torn from his mother at birth, the male, dairy calf lives a short,…
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Lights … camera… and … eat!
Local movie premiere teamsup with Manville restaurants By:Krzysztof Scibiorski Manville will be joining the likes of Hollywood and New York with several movie premiere parties planned by the producers of independently produced feature film "Lansdown." After being featured and awarded prizes at film festivals around the world, and being praised by film critics around the…
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Council rethinks left-turn ban plan
The goal of the original plan was to reduce distractions for drivers on Route 206 near the Church of St. Ann. By: Lea Kahn Township officials are rethinking a plan aimed at making things safer near the intersection of Lawrence Avenue and Route 206. The original idea, an ordinance banning left turns from Lawrence Avenue,…
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FROM ROOSEVELT: Battling deer ticks
Life in the borough of Roosevelt. By: Linda Schuster Well, it’s spring. Yeah, I think a change would do me good. Time to give the patio a thorough cleaning and organize a family game of Pick Up Sticks. After that it’s rake, rake, rake. Then make a list of what I need to paint. Let’s…
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Traffic issues trouble Town Center
Work yet to begin on the commercial district slated for Route 33 in Robbinsville. By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON As township officials scramble to solve traffic circulation problems around Town Center, a related delay in the project’s commercial district has the mayor and the developer concerned. Although 40 percent of the houses to be constructed…
