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  • Pintos proved to be determined dozen

    Lack of numbers didn’t stop MYAL team By: John E. Powers    The Manville Pintos won a Raritan Valley Conference championship in 2000 and earned a berth in the Garden State Bowl Tournament. Dave Pfoutz was the team’s head coach.    Ask Pfoutz what team gave him more thrills — last year’s 7-1-1 title team or this…

  • Holiday season begins

    Allentown merchants hosting ‘open house’ weekend. By: Ken Weingartner    ALLENTOWN — The "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" parade has been canceled, but St. Nick still will arrive Saturday in the borough — and he still will find plenty of things to do.    The holiday parade, held the previous two years and sponsored by the…

  • SCHOOL BOARD BRIEFS

    By:Krzysztof Scibiorski Geometry books purchased    In an emergency move, the board unanimously voted to accept and purchase sets of two new geometry books for the high school.    At the end of October, the mathematics faculty informed the board that they did not have the resources to teach the geometry curriculum. Then, during the work meeting…

  • Football allies urge schoolofficials to reconsider sport

    Proponents of starting an interscholastic football program at Hopewell Valley Central High School are again urging officials to start a pigskin program here By John Tredrea    Hopes of having football at Central High School have not died.    As the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education begins preparing a budget to propose to voters in April’s…

  • Residents’ input needed on Master Plan

    GUEST COLUMN by John Mele: Upper Freehold to review proposal on Dec. 13. By:    On Dec. 13 at the Upper Freehold Township municipal building, there will be a very important public meeting concerning proposed amendments to our township Master Plan. At stake is nothing less than the future complexion of the township. Important land use…

  • Veronica Bentzinger

       MANVILLE — Veronica C. "Ronnie" (Mazur) Bentzinger died Thursday, Nov. 22, at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 71.Born in Manville, she had been a lifelong resident of the Borough.    Mrs. Bentzinger was a homemaker.    She also worked as a cafeteria worker at the Bridgewater Raritan High School.    She was a communicant of Sacred Heart…

  • The body eclectic

    Family and friends mourn the loss of artist Jacob Landau of Roosevelt. By: Scott Morgan    ROOSEVELT — The human body was his vessel, his chariot and his destination. Like William Blake, an admitted influence, his art strived to illustrate "the human form divine." To juxtapose the beauty and the violence; the anger and the hope;…

  • Fun with Dioramas

    Lambertville artist Myles Cavanaugh traded in his brush for gears, wires and pulleys to create ‘The Cigar Box Theatre.’ By: Susan Van Dongen ALT="image"> COLOR="black"> COLOR="black"> "Each box takes a long time, sometimes as long as six months if I’m trying to do other things at the same time," says artist Myles Cavanaugh of his…

  • Edition of Nov. 29, 2001

    William McClellan Cost    William McClellan Cost, 75, died Monday at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton.    Born in Ligonier, Pa., he was a pharmacist’s mate with the Navy during World War II. He graduated from Pennsylvania Military College and received a master’s degree in education from Temple University in 1952 and a master’s degree…