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  • Stix Bones Returns to Host Jazz Night at New York’s Legendary Metropolitan Room

    By Stephen McConnaughey STIX BONES RETURNS TO HOST JAZZ NIGHTS AT NEW YORK’S LEGENDARY METROPOLITAN ROOM New York, NY, August 29, 2012–The incomparable Stix Bones will be hosting Jazz Night at the renowned Metropolitan Room in NYC on Friday, September 7, and Friday, September 21, 2012, both nights at 11:30 PM. The internationally esteemed Metropolitan Room…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Girl Scouts decorate school gym

    HILLSBOROUGH: Girl Scouts decorate school gym

    For refreshing the Woods Road School gym and hosting a health fair, Hillsborough Junior Troop 60100 helped earned their Bronze Project Award.

  • Mercer County Community College to Host Two Events to Commemorate 9-11

    By Candace Zafirellis On September 11, 2001, nearly 700 New Jerseyans — the second highest casualty toll after New York — perished during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and aboard United Flight 93. For the past ten years, Mercer County Community College (MCCC) has hosted a commemoration of these tragic events.…

  • MANVILLE: Mayor: Recreation issue seemed political

    To the editor:    I am writing in response to the recent letter to the editor written by Joe Lukac regarding a situation that occurred in May and was recently discussed at a Manville Council meeting.    In his letter, Mr. Lukac states that I was preventing a certain letter received from the Manville Board of Education…

  • MANVILLE: Inmates, officers injured in jail assault

       Two inmates and four corrections officers were injured at the Somerset County Jail last Friday, Aug. 24, when several inmates allegedly assaulted a fellow prisoner.    Sheriff Frank J. Provenzano said officers observed the accused inmates assaulting another inmate about 10 p.m. As they intervened, at least two of those inmates tried to interfere with the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Girl Scouts decorate school gym

    HILLSBOROUGH: Girl Scouts decorate school gym

       Hillsborough Junior Girl Scout Troop 60100 took on the challenge of cleaning and decorating the Woods Road Elementary School gym.    The troop spent nine meetings cleaning, painting and designing murals, including the new “Food Plate,” on the gym walls. Once the job was completed, they had a health fair and invited younger troops. The Juniors…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Shennard chosen as interim councilman

    ROBBINSVILLE: Shennard chosen as interim councilman

    Councilman Dennis Shennard and his family are welcomed by the rest of the Robbinsville Township Council after he took the oath of office at the Aug. 23 council meeting. From left in front row are Michaela Shennard, Councilwoman Chris Ciaccio, Councilwoman Sheree McGowan, Mr. Shennard, Joe Shennard and Louise Shennard. In back row from left…

  • ALLENTOWN: State OKs new ‘school choice’ programs at AHS

    Stone Bridge Middle School approved for advanced math By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional School District has won state approval to offer four new interdistrict school choice programs — three at the high school and one at the middle school — that in 2013-14 can collectively accept up to 78…

  • ALLENTOWN: Teen sharpshooter takes best shot at championship

    ALLENTOWN: Teen sharpshooter takes best shot at championship

       CAMP PERRY, OHIO — Allentown High School senior Danny Jonas scored big at the National Rifle Association’s National Smallbore 3-Position Rifle Championship last month, winning first in the Junior Sharpshooter Class.    Danny also finished 16th overall out of more than 275 of the top target shooters in the country — minus the Olympic team members…