Category: archives

  • Letters to the editor, April 18, 2002

    Increased OHRV use a concern To the editor:    The increased use of ATVs and other off highway recreational vehicles (OHRV) in the Hopewell Valley greatly concerns me and it should you, too. OHRVs generate excessive noise and air pollution, waste precious fuel, disturb the wildlife (and not so wild), and destroy the land. Many times…

  • An important tale continues to lose its tellers to time

    DISPATCHES: Hank Kalet    Soil of annihilation, soil of hate, No word will purify it ever. No such poet will be born. For even if one had been called, he walked Beside us to the last gate, for only A child of the ghetto could utter the words. — Czeslaw Milosz, "Treatise on Poetry    Suse Rosenstock…

  • Roosevelt School to the rescue

    By:Mary Ellen Zangara    Each Tuesday, students at Roosevelt School are holding bake sale was an on going sale each Tuesday to raise funds for the Manville Rescue Squad.    The students at Roosevelt School have designated Tuesdays as Cupcake Day at the school. From March 26 to April 30, two classes will sell cupcakes, cookies, brownies…

  • Expand truck restrictions on Route 206

    GUEST COLUMN: The Route 206 Coalition    The Route 206 Coalition is a committee of citizens in Lawrence and Princeton who are concerned that heavy truck traffic on Route 206 is a threat to the economic viability of our communities and the safety and health of our residents.    Since our first meeting in September — hosted…

  • Manville nine falls behind North Plainfield again

    Trend continues to plague Mustangs By: Rudy Brandl    Manville High baseball coach Steve Venuto has watched an annoying trend develop during his team’s recent meetings with North Plainfield. That ominous streak and North Plainfield’s dominance of the series continued last Thursday afternoon in Manville.    North Plainfield scored three runs in the top of the first…

  • New SBHS girls golf team has been looking good

    By: Rich Fisher    The newest varsity team at South Brunswick High School is also turning into one of the most successful.    After two seasons as a club program, the Vikings now have a girls varsity golf team. It is the only all-girls golf team in the Greater Middlesex Conference, as the other GMC teams fall…

  • Seminick Street’s one way — but which way?

    New one way street designations going into effect over next two weeks By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    Manville residents will start seeing "One Way" signs in new spots and some pointing in different directions.    Over the next two weeks, the borough will start placing new street signs that will signal new traffic patterns around town.    Sixth, Seventh and…

  • Truck traffic on Route 206 deserves debate

    EDITORIAL    The Route 206 Coalition, a group of concerned residents from Lawrence and Princeton, has proposed that trucks be banned from Route 206 except those making deliveries within 4 miles of the stretch of road that runs through the towns.    It’s too early to decide this proposal one way or another, but it does raise…

  • For the week of April 18

    George E. Walton Sr., Margaret V. Acton, Linda L. Gaskill, Marion Goodwin Chiorello, Dante Salamandra, Grace Mongiardo. By: George E. Walton Sr.    PLUMSTED — George E. Walton Sr., 74, died Friday, April 12, at Community Medical Center, Toms River.    Born in New Egypt, he was a lifelong area resident.    Mr. Walton had been a mechanic…