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  • LAWRENCE: Council takes step toward tax question

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township Council has taken the first step — although it is non-binding — toward putting a referendum question on the ballot in April, asking for a 9-cent increase in the municipal property tax rate.    The council agreed Tuesday night to advertise the availability of absentee ballots for the referendum question,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter, issue of Feb. 9

       A fire roused a family from its single-family home at 6 Fisher Court on Friday morning.    The fire had spread to the first floor by the time all three township fire companies responded at about 7:55 a.m. to the report of a basement fire. The residents were home and got out safely with no injuries.…

  • MANVILLE: Flood group takes its first tenuous steps

       Representatives of nine municipalities and Somerset County met last week in Manville to organize the brand new Raritan and Millstone Rivers Flood Control Commission.    They chose seats on either side of a long table and carefully began to introduce themselves and learn more about their fellow public servants. Bright eyed and eager, the members seemed…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Nine-town flood control group organizes

    Group warned: Prepare for the long haul By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Every time it rains hard, residents of Manville shudder.    It didn’t used to be that way, say longtime residents. But Tropical Storm Floyd slapped the borough hard in 1999, and Manville and other areas were devastated by back-to-back storms of Irene and Lee…

  • MANVILLE: Kids learn how to make pierogis

    MANVILLE: Kids learn how to make pierogis

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    A Polish tradition was passed onto the next generation as students in the eighth grade CCD classes from Sacred Heart and Christ the King churches learned how to make the favorite food of pierogis. About 40 eighth graders have cut, filled and pinched the pieorgis over two weeks.    On…

  • MANVILLE: Lower-priced tickets to SEALs film offered to military

       Manville 12 Reading Cinemas will sell discounted tickets to military personnel to the “Act of Valor” movie from opening day on Friday, Feb. 24, through the run of engagement.    Service members who present a valid military ID at the box office at the theater at 180 N. Main St., Manville, will receive a discounted rate…

  • LAWRENCE: Man, 85, accused of groping two women

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    An 85-year-old man has been charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact for groping two women — a store clerk and a neighbor — in connection with incidents that occurred Jan. 25 and Jan. 28.    Charles W. Deaton of Ivy Glen Lane knocked on the door of a 61-year-old…

  • MANVILLE: Senior Corner, week of Feb. 9

       The Manville Senior Citizens meet at 12:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at the VFW on Washington Avenue. The club, which is comprised of people who are residents of Manville, age 60 or older, and age 55 if disabled.    Canned goods or non-perishable food items will continue to be collected before each meeting,…

  • Mount Saint Mary Robotics Team Prepares to Compete in the State Finals

    Mount Saint Mary Robotics Team Prepares to Compete in the State Finals

    Mount Saint Mary Academy’s robotics team has advanced to the New Jersey State Tournament of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition.  The CyberLions, as the team is known, will compete for the state championship this Sunday, February 12 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  The Mount squad is the only team from an all-girls…