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  • SENIOR CORNER

       The Manville Seniors Inc. meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of each month. The next meeting will be Thursday, April 12. Tickets for the picnic will be sold.    New members are welcome. Membership is open to residents 55 if disabled; otherwise it is 60 and older. Contact Mary at 725-8978. Trips    Wednesday, April 18…

  • MHS girls’ track continues building for future

    Treonze encouraged by growth in numbers By: Rudy Brandl        It may not be long before Manville High fields a full girls’ track and field team.    The Mustangs will operate as a co-ed unit in 2001, although there are probably enough girls to function as a unit. However, with most of the athletes still young…

  • PHASE THREE: The economics of expense accounts

    PHASE THREE: by Arnold Bornstein: Our columnist muses on the ins and oiuts of credit. By:Arnold Bornstein    My wife and I were seated around the crowded bar at one of Manhattan’s top hotels and I ordered a dry martini, even after seeing on the menu that all martinis were $12.50 each. That’s a pricey figure…

  • Township’s advice on police challenged

    Montgomery’s decision to hire a police director instead of a chief continued to draw attention at Thursday’s Township Committee meeting. By: David M. Campbell    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee’s decision last month to seek a civilian police director remained in the spotlight Thursday night as Committeewoman Ali Henkel harshly criticized the attorney providing advice on…

  • Water company eyes rate hike

    The Elizabethtown Water Co. applied Monday to the state Board of Public Utilities to hike water rates 18 percent. By:Dave Weinstein    Area residents may have to pay more for their water.    The Elizabethtown Water Co. applied Monday to the state Board of Public Utilities to hike water rates 18 percent.    For the average homeowner in…

  • Maisel brothers face off in doubles action

    Older sibling helps PHS top Hun boys’ tennis By: Justin Feil Andrew and Chad Maisel had hit together countless times over the years, but the brothers never had faced each other on the tennis courts like they did Tuesday.    Chad paired with Princeton High School second doubles teammate Ted Distler to knock off Andrew and…

  • Writer waxes about garbage gaffe

    To the editor:    As I tried to maneuver my colossal new garbage can around the garage, wondering if the next step will be that I’ll need a special license to drive this monstrosity, I felt compelled to add a comment or two to the volumes already written about the township’s first major gaffe of the…

  • Sikh Association opens doors to new home

    Since March 9, Sikhs from central New Jersey have been gathering at the temple in Washington, which is known as a gurdwara. By: Frank C. D’Amico    WASHINGTON — The Central Jersey Sikh Association has opened to its members and the rest of the community the doors of a new temple in Windsor.    Since March 9,…

  • STATE OF THE ARTS:

    Youngsters learn through art By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Kindergarten has changed a lot in the past 10 years, Barclay Brook School Principal Carol Schwalje said last week.    Within that change, art is still large in the kindergarten picture, but its role has changed, teachers said.    "When I went to kindergarten, it used to be…