Category: archives
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Manville cagers looking for answers after holiday setbacks
Maychrich injury leaves team scrambling By: Shawn Tyrrell It wasn’t a particularly good ending to 2001 for the Manville High boys’ basketball team. MHS took part in the Middlesex Holiday Basketball tournament on Dec. 27-28 and came away with disappointing results. The Mustangs suffered back-to-back losses to Dunellen (76-65) in the opening game of the…
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Committee to review school plan
Redistricting maps may undergo review before board grants approval By:Krzysztof Scibiorski The Board of Education and the public might not be able to review the district’s final redistricting plan during the board’s Jan. 14 work meeting, as previously announced. The board had indicated the schedule for implementing the new redistricting plan included acceptance of a…
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War against terroris justified
To the editor The war in Afghanistan has created many mixed feelings towards our government from the children of our nation. Some teens would go as far as participating in a draft while others think the war is killing innocent Afghan civilians and a waste of the nation’s resources. Some of the nations young people…
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Edition of Jan. 10, 2002
Gladys Stillman Bruns Gladys Stillman Bruns, 81, died Dec. 31 at St. Mary Medical Center, Middletown, Pa. Born in Long Branch, she lived in Hopewell 31 years. She graduated from Bucknell University in 1940 and was a member of Phi Mu sorority, Princeton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Magna Carta Dames, Colonial…
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Frank Bagienski
EDISON Frank W. Bagienski died Tuesday at the JFK Hartwyck at Edison Estates Nursing Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center in Edison where he lived for several years. He was 80. Born in Hudson, Pa., he lived in Manville for many years. Mr. Bagienski retired as supervisor from American Cyanamid, formerly in Bound Brook. He served…
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Rolling the dicefor books
Proceeds from sales of game spaces will help purchase books for fith and sixth-grades By:Krzysztof Scibiorski "Boardwalk" might not be the most desirable spot for local Monopoly fans if the fund-raising plans of one parents’ group is successful. Instead, players using the "Game of Hillsborough" may want to land on the "Hillsborough Physical Therapy" or…
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Ted Petrock chosen as council president
Republicans object to quick vote, but only Asher abstains By:Alec Moore Even though it’s a new year, political tensions have already begun to flare up for Manville’s Borough Council. During the borough’s 2002 reorganization meeting, newcomer Sue Asher and longtime incumbent Councilman Michael Polak were officially sworn in as members of Manville’s Borough Council, striking…
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Drew’s boys’ take Cinnaminson to double OT
Florence, LCA, NBC continue to pick up victories By:Sean Moylan The Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity basketball team won two out of three games it played this past week yet it was Bordentown’s 83-82 double overtime home loss to Cinnaminson on Monday which was the Scotties most impressive showing. "I think we woke up…
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OBITUARIES, Jan. 11, 2002
Mae L. Cevera, Percy I. Siskowitz, Donald Spencer, D. Lorraine Underwood, Ira Weinstein, Michele Matticoli. Mae L. Cevera Nurse at Merwick SEASIDE PARK Mae L. Cevera died Wednesday at home. She was 84. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., she lived in Princeton for 60 years, moving to Seaside Park three years ago. She was a…
