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  • Frank John Mitzen Sr.

       WASHINGTON – Frank John Mitzen Sr., 64, died Aug. 1 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Lawrence, he was a longtime Robbinsville area resident.    He was a meat cutter with Super Fresh food markets for 42 years, retiring in 1998. He also worked with the Trenton Thunder.    He was an Army…

  • Committee switches, saves Berger Farm

    Vote reverses July 12 decision By:Jeff Mikalaitis        MANSFIELD – The Township Committee voted to approve the 74-acre Berger farm for inclusion in the Burlington County farmland preservation program, reversing a July 12 decision to withhold support for the property.    At the July 26 meeting, Mayor Kelly Shea voted against approval in the 3-1 vote.…

  • Mt. Laurel ruling has become a club in developers’ hands

    DEAR NEIGHBOR By:Hugh Brennan    The Hillsborough Promenade is the fruit of white racism.    Before your eyes glaze over follow me on this one. We are having this monstrosity imposed upon our little green jewel of a town by a legal machine set in motion to remedy centuries of anti-black discrimination.    Mt. Laurel, the Coalition on…

  • Thomas and the Magic Railroad

    Alec Baldwin stars in an enchanting fantasy movie for toddlers and train fanatics.   [G] By: Kam Williams    Once upon a time, the Island of Sodor was an innocent oasis of talking trains with a magical conductor. But suddenly this enchanted world of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends has been threatened by the arrival of…

  • Hot Topics

    Sacred Heart memories    With the old Sacred Heart Church now gone, except for the portions remaining to be knocked down, and even those soon to be gone, The Manville News wants to hear your thoughts on the building’s destruction.    Do you have any special memories about the old church? Were you sorry to see it…

  • Sewer project slated after talks with host

    Committee approves construction ordinance By:Vanessa S. Holt        CHESTERFIELD – Construction of a sewer to serve the receiving area of the township slated for development will commence after negotiations with the Department of Corrections are completed, but the cost to residents will not be known until those talks are finished, said township officials.    The Township…

  • Pay attention to our girls

    BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman    People who problem-solve know the first step is to understand the problem. This means doing some research and analyzing how the sum of the parts provides the big picture that needs to be addressed.    If this sounds like a history lesson, it is. History is literally a living record of…

  • Selling produce at Kerr Farm roadside stand

    ON THE JOB IN HOPEWELL VALLEY By: John Tredrea    The Kerr Farm’s produce stand, which does a brisk business on Pennington-Rocky Hill Road in central Hopewell Township, got started from the back of a pickup truck 16 years ago, when a family tradition dating to the early 1960s was renewed by Geordie and Matt Kerr…

  • Manville Street Fair ready to return

    Yearly event arrives Aug. 20 By:Eric Schwarz    The borough street fair is returning this year after a one-year absence.    The fair will run along both sides of South Main Street and the street itself from Camplain Road to the railroad bridge south of Brooks Boulevard from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 20.    The rain…