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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Chabad Center for Jewish Life will celebrate its 10th anniversary Dec. 11

        Chabad Center for Jewish Life’s 10th anniversary in the southern Somerset County area will be celebrated with an elegant dinner on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Imperia Banquet and Conference Center in Somerset.     The event will help fund programs for the Chabad Jewish Center, which doesn’t charge a synagogue membership fee, assess a…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Court testimony prompts call for Tozzi to resign

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — Councilman-elect Dave Boyne is calling for the resignation of Business Administrator Joy Tozzi because a witness in Hamilton Mayor John Bencivengo’s bribery trial has testified she gave Ms. Tozzi cash, meals, clothes and a paid vacation while Ms. Tozzi was a Hamilton school board member.    Ms. Tozzi, a…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Alexandra Lasin will dance in ‘Nutcracker’ ballet

    HILLSBOROUGH: Alexandra Lasin will dance in ‘Nutcracker’ ballet

        Alexandra Lasin of Hillsborough plays Clara in the New Jersey Youth Ballet’s “Nutcracker” on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 1 p.m. at the Bridgewater Senior Center, 455 Somerville Road. Tickets are $5.     Dolls and sweets come to life, mice and toy soldiers do battle and snowflakes dance in a snow-covered forest. The beautiful story,…

  • 100 for 100 Small Works Show

    100 for 100 Small Works Show

    Picasa Narcissus by Joanne Donnelly on display at the AOY Small Works Show

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Exhibit showcases healing arts

       ROBBINSVILLE — Senior citizens are using paintbrushes to relieve stress and anxiety at Art for Healing classes.    A recent pilot study conducted by Karen Oltarzewski, activities director and art facilitator at Rose Hill Assisted Living in Robbinsville, led to a surprising showcase of talented senior artists.    The facility recently hosted its first Art Exhibit, where…

  • MANVILLE: Senior Corner column, week of Nov. 22

           The Manville Senior Citizens met on Thursday, Nov. 15, at the VFW on Washington Avenue. Normally the group meets on the second Thursday of each month. The next date is Dec. 13 at 12:30 p.m.     Canned goods or nonperishable food items will continue to be collected before each meeting, as well as soup…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Personnel moves acted upon by school board

        In addition to accepting the resignation of Scott Rocco, assistant superintendent for human resources, the Board of Education made other personnel moves. Nov. 12.     Mr. Rocco has been hired as the superintendent of the Spotswood Township School district as of the beginning of 2013.     He has been employed in the district since…

  • MANVILLE: Workers, volunteers praised for efforts before, during storm

    MANVILLE: Workers, volunteers praised for efforts before, during storm

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer     Borough Council members and grateful residents praised Manville’s emergency workers for their work during Hurricane Sandy at the Nov. 12 Borough Council meeting.     Mayor Angelo Corradino thanked everybody “who participated in the repairing and recovering from the storm — from the first responders, fire, rescue, police, Public…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter

       Ebuka Ndukwu, 20, of Sharon Hills, Pa., and Adam Galasso, 20, of Conshohocken, Pa., were charged with shoplifting clothing worth a combined $454.50 from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 4:38 p.m. Nov. 17.    The owner of a Hamilton Township-based landscaping company reported the theft of $3,069 worth of power tools from a trailer…