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  • MANVILLE: Youngsters can test baseball skills

        Area youngsters can test their baseball and softball skills at a free Major League Baseball Pitch, Hit & Run competition on Saturday, April 20, at 2 p.m. at the Lincoln Avenue (Valley) Fields.     NJ Pitch, Hit & Run is the official skills competition of Major League Baseball.     Boys and girls are divided…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Flood confab hears ideas for action now

    HILLSBOROUGH: Flood confab hears ideas for action now

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Flood solutions big and small were addressed at a conference Saturday on flooding of the Raritan and Millstone rivers.    Towns along the two rivers — particularly Manville at the confluence — have been battered in the last 13 years by two hurricane-force storms, said Frank Jurewicz, chairman of the Raritan-Millstone…

  • MANVILLE: Community calendar, issue of March 21

    Sat., March 23    Easter breakfast and egg hunt: Manville-Hillsborough Elks Lodge, 9 a.m. to noon. Eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, breakfast potatoes, juice. Adults $5, children $3. Bring a camera to take pictures with the Easter Bunny.    At 12:30 p.m., hop down to Lost Valley Park for an Easter egg hunt. (Rain date is March 24.)…

  • LAWRENCE: Taking the ‘plunge’ to aid Special Olympics

    LAWRENCE: Taking the ‘plunge’ to aid Special Olympics

    The members of the Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Team prepare to plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 23 in Long Branch. From left are Jasmine Mustra, Shannon Cronce, Rita Thompson, Olivia Waaben, Kinsey Ratzman and Dara Clarke. 

  • MANVILLE: Students to perform ‘Once Upon A Mattress’

    MANVILLE: Students to perform ‘Once Upon A Mattress’

    Manville High School’s Drama Club thespians perform a scene in “Once Upon A Mattress” which will run this weekend at the high school. From left are Brandon Roche as King Sextimus the Silent, Eleni Kontos as the Minstrel, Megan Nash as Lady Larken, and Leah Alpaugh as the Jester. Stephen Sallach directs the musical.

  • MANVILLE: Library Happenings column, issue of March 21

    MANVILLE: Library Happenings column, issue of March 21

    The Long Gone Daddies played a free concert of acoustic music March 12 at the Manville Public Library. (Photo courtesy of Barbara Forbes)

  • HILLSBOROUGH: See New Jersey views from artist’s perspective

    News of events at Hillsborough Public Library    Local photographer Walter Choroszewski will present vintage views of New Jersey from engravings, paintings, prints and photographs found at museums and the Library of Congress Tues., March 26, at 7 p.m. at the Hillsborough library on South Branch Road.    He’ll discuss the art periods that influenced the art…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Woodfern students meet reading challenge

    HILLSBOROUGH: Woodfern students meet reading challenge

       Woodfern Elementary School Principal Steven Kerrigan picked a zany reproduction of a Dr. Seuss hat to wear and also “grew” some green hair in response to students making reading a priority over the last two weeks.    March 1, an assembly featuring a multimedia reading of the Dr. Seuss’ book, “The Sneetches,” kicked off two weeks…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: March 21

    Sun., April 14    Ilene Beckerman, author of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” will be featured speaker at the Adath Israel Women’s League annual Spring Brunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Greenacres Country Club, Lawrence. Cost: $45 per person; $40 for ages 65 and over; and $25 for ages 12 and under. Contact…