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  • MANVILLE: Scouts give graves due respect

    MANVILLE: Scouts give graves due respect

    Scouts Danny Shubiak and Matthew Fiduk organize their flags and routes at Sacred Heart Cemetery. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • ALLENTOWN: Girl Scout spruces up library landscaping

    ALLENTOWN: Girl Scout spruces up library landscaping

    Eighth-grader Holly Barletta, a member of Troop 70407 of the Allentown Girl Scouts, earned her Silver Award last week for completing a landscaping project at the Allentown library. Holly (lower right) is shown with (from top left) Lexi Corrington, Scout leader Debbie Corrington, Emily Hendricksen, librarian Nancy Stein, and Nicole Amato (seated).

  • Mobile Banking is Safe and Convenient When Consumers Take Precautions Says Peapack-Gladstone Bank
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Town holding paid union leave in check

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    While a state report last week issued a scathing assessment of how some union officials take large amounts of leave to conduct business while on the public time clock, the local situation seems controlled.    The report by the state’s Investigation Commission found many union officials spending little time doing…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Library adjusts summer hours

    Here’s a list of activities, programs coming up    Due to the Hillsborough Township Memorial Day Parade, the library will open at noon on Saturday, May 26, and close at 5 p.m. The library will be closed on Memorial Day on Monday, May 28.    The last day for the Homework Help Center will be Thursday, May…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Town clamps down on illegal dumping

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    The township is using video surveillance and other means to crack down on people dumping materials illegally at a brush and leaf drop-off location on New Road.    ”We are not going to make township residents foot the bill for private contractors who illegally use our brush-leaf drop-off area,” police…

  • LAWRENCE: Mrs. G proposal hearing postponed

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A public hearing on a plan to redevelop a 16-acre parcel on Route 1 at Bakers Basin Road, which is anchored by the Mrs. G TV and Appliance store and that had been set to be heard as The Ledger went to press Wednesday, has been postponed until next month.…

  • MANVILLE: Scouts give graves due respect

    MANVILLE: Scouts give graves due respect

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    On Saturday morning the Manville Boy Scouts of Troop 193 honored and remembered veterans as Memorial Day approaches by placing about 1,700 flags at area cemeteries.    The Scouts split up and over three hours replaced flags and damaged or missing medallions.    The flags are given to the Scouts and…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Brownies’ teamwork makes stream clean

    ROBBINSVILLE: Brownies’ teamwork makes stream clean

    Girl Scout Brownie Troop 71146 collected and removed eight bags of trash from the stream at the soccer fields in Robbinsville’s Community Park off Gordon Road. Shown from left are: (standing) Abby Lieberman, Nicole Weaver, Samantha Baron, Maddie Pike, Cara Alban, Amanda DeShaw, and (sitting) Emily Keller and Catherine Yi. (Not pictured: Kelly Carduner and…