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  • Manville football team looks ahead to November

    By: Rudy Brandl        If Manville High football fans are looking for bright spots after their team suffered its fifth straight lopsided loss, there are some to consider.    First, this Saturday’s road game at Governor Livingston (2-5) marks the last time the Mustangs (1-6) will face a team from the upper division of the Mountain…

  • Meeting at VFW was misportrayed

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the editor:    I am responding to the one-sided story in your Oct. 19 publication concerning our regularly scheduled meeting which was abruptly canceled by officials of VFW Post 2290 in Manville ("VFW turns away ‘white supremacist’ organization").    People Against Tax Tyranny has been holding regular meetings twice a month at…

  • Award recognizes lifetime of community work

    Aaron Rosloff honored by Citizens for Independent Living By: Matthew Armstrong    Citizens for Independent Living will bestow the Barry Indik Award on Aaron Rosloff for his years of outstanding community work at a benefit dinner Saturday.    For more than 30 years, Mr. Rosloff has worked hard to bring the Jewish community in South Brunswick together.…

  • Race for the Cure draws 22,000 to Squibb

    Breast cancer research benefits from fund-raiser    The frost was definitely on the pumpkin, the grass, the volunteers and the sound equipment as dawn broke Sunday in Lawrence. By: Linda J. Field    The Bristol-Myers Squibb campus, usually populated only by some ducks and geese so early on a weekend morning, came to life. Thanks to the…

  • First-hand advice on the art of fright

    Post staffer spends night scaring haunted trail visitors By: Sara Peters    We waited, crouching in the darkness, sizing up our prey. Would this group be more scared by a sudden leap or a slow sneak? Who would scream the loudest?    For one night, I transformed from mild-mannered reporter for The South Brunswick Post to spooky…

  • New managing editor at The Ledger

       The editorship of The Lawrence Ledger changes hands today, Thursday.    T.J. Furman, managing editor since January, has moved on to a new position within The Princeton Packet Group. The search for a new managing editor is under way and is expected to be completed soon.    In the interim, Aubrey Huston and Dick Willever, executive editors…

  • Commission comes to the aid of Girl Scouts

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the editor:    The following is an open letter to Mayor Angelo Corradino.    I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on appointing such outstanding members to the Manville Recreation Commission and to thank them for their support concerning our recent event.    Manville Girl Scout Troop 861 held their fund-raiser…

  • Red Ribbon program sends vital message

    MANVILLE NEWS EDITORIAL — NOV. 2, 2000 By:The Manville News    Kudos to school officials, parents and students who poured their energy into planning and promoting Red Ribbon Week this past week to encourage healthy lifestyles.    While some students may scoff at the "good, clean fun" message of this past week, we applaud the goal of…

  • Township faces another downzoning lawsuit

    Attorney wanted to build storage facility off Route 31 By:John Tredrea    Pennington Personal Storage (PPS), which wanted to build a 130,000-square-foot ministorage facility on 15 acres off state Route 31 in central Hopewell Township, filed a lawsuit on Oct. 4 in state Superior Court against township Mayor Marylou Ferrara and Hopewell Township Committee members Kathy…