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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes group to offer football, cheer teams for special needs kids

       The Hillsborough Dukes is launching its 46th year by offering free registration for all cheer and football programs for families registering before April 15.    The Dukes will also start a Challenger Division to bring the football and cheer experience to individuals with special needs. Pop Warner’s overall goals are to enable young people to benefit…

  • ALLENTOWN: Third-grader wins national T-shirt design contest

    ALLENTOWN: Third-grader wins national T-shirt design contest

    Ava Strovinsky, 8, of Allentown, is the grand-prize winner in the third-grade category for P.S. Aeropostale’s “What Makes You Smile” T-shirt design contest. Staff photo by Joanne Degnan

  • ALLENTOWN: Third-grader wins national T-shirt design contest

    ALLENTOWN: Third-grader wins national T-shirt design contest

    Achievement nets $5,000 grant for Newell Elementary School By Rachel Lavery, Special Writer    ALLENTOWN — Newell Elementary third-grader Ava Strovinsky looks forward to her Tuesday art class, but she recently was taken by surprise when her art teacher, Tamara Diaczenko, came looking for her during math class.    Unbeknownst to 8-year-old Ava, she had just won…

  • MILLSTONE: Monmouth Co. Panhandle Democrats celebrate 1 year

       MILLSTONE — The Monmouth County Panhandle Democrats, whose members hail from Allentown, Millstone, Roosevelt and Upper Freehold, will celebrate their one-year anniversary Feb. 19 at a dinner at the Clarksburg Inn.    Rep. Frank Pallone, a Democrat who represents the 6th Congressional District in Monmouth, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties, will be the guest speaker.…

  • MANSFIELD: Vandalism incident shocks community

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    MANSFIELD — Is your loved one missing his or her veteran or fireman marker at the Columbus Cemetery?    Sometime after Christmas Day and before the next night, an unknown person or multiple people removed graveside property — namely — veteran and firefighter memorial markers.    Approximately 60 markers were removed during…

  • MILLSTONE: School district facing project shortfall in 2013-14

    MILLSTONE: School district facing project shortfall in 2013-14

    Denise Touhey’s resignation from the Millstone Board of Education was announced at the Jan. 28 meeting.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: On Campus

    News about academic achievements of local residents at college    Caitlin McCarthy, of Allentown, and Jessica Friedberg, of Robbinsville, have been named to the Dean’s List at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York for the fall 2012 semester.    William J. Mitchell III, of New Egypt, has been named to the Dean’s List for academic achievement during…

  • Youth celebrate King’s legacy

       HIGHTSTOWN — Local children from area houses of worship and the first grade classes at the Walter C. Black School helped others to honor Martin Luther King Day with Rise-a Community Service Partnership’s Sleepy-Time drive this month.    These children gathered at the First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown on this day of celebration of the life…

  • LAWRENCE: Children learn science can be fun

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    ”Is that real blood,” asked Chaiyo Kosinski, as he examined the lungs and heart from a calf.    ”Let me feel it. It’s really squishy. It feels soft and mushy,” Chaiyo said, as he handled the pink tissue in his gloved hands.    ”I knew it was a heart. I don’t mind…