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    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…

  • 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…

  • Panel to run storm basin

    Pond located on school site By:Jeff Mikalaitis        MANSFIELD -The Township Committee has agreed to take responsibility for the management of the stormwater detention basin at the Landview at Millington development.    The developer will be donating 30 acres of land, which has been selected as the future site of the township’s new elementary school.    This…

  • Candy class a sweet time

    FOCUS ON COMMUNITY EDUCATION By: Matthew Armstrong    Some children in a Community Education class this week became aware of a very important Marxist lesson: Power lies in production.    This was not, however, a course in communism, but rather class in which children learn how to produce their own sweet treats.    "We love candy," said Emily…

  • OBITUARIES 8/03

    From the Aug. 3 edition of the Register-News By: Anna M. Barnes    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – Anna M. Barnes, 83, died July 21 at the Hamilton Continuing Care Center, Mercerville.    Born in Belleville, she has lived in the Bordentown area for the past 45 years.    Mrs. Barnes retired in 1997, after 35 years at the Peter…