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  • PLUMSTED: Town gets first career fire chief

    PLUMSTED: Town gets first career fire chief

    Steve Morgan Jr. (left) receives a certificate of recognition from Plumsted Deputy Mayor Eric Sorchik at a fire company promotion ceremony Jan. 4. Photo by Rebecca Nowalski

  • MANVILLE: Second place earns gymnast prize of cherished snow globe

    MANVILLE: Second place earns gymnast prize of cherished snow globe

       On Dec. 9, Manville fifth graders Brooke Hoodja and Emma Thompson competed at the Christmas on the Chesapeake gymnastics invitational in Baltimore, Maryland, for Paramount Gymnastics of Hillsborough.    Emma’s Level 6 group competed first and started the event rotation on floor exercise. Emma scored a 9.05, which earned her second place.    After floor, they rotated…

  • MANVILLE: Citizens of the year’ are recognized

    MANVILLE: Citizens of the year’ are recognized

    Mayor Angelo Corradino poses with Marilyn and Mike Fiure, who are Red Cross volunteers who gave much time in the shelter during the Irene flooding. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • PLUMSTED: Town gets first career fire chief

    PLUMSTED: Town gets first career fire chief

       PLUMSTED — Steve Morgan Jr., a member of New Egypt Volunteer Fire Company since 1991, has been promoted from deputy to career fire chief.    Mayor Dave Leutwyler administered the oath of office to Chief Morgan during a Jan. 4 ceremony at the New Egypt firehouse on Main Street.    Chief Morgan is the township’s first career…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Senior Corner for week of Jan. 12

    CHAPTER A     Chapter A meets the first Thursday of the month in the municipal complex. We are open to new members.     Doors open at 11:30 a.m., allowing you time to review the trips we offer. The meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. Coffee and doughnuts are served at meeting’s end.     Dick Meier is…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Help draw a map of sites and scenes in township

    History, bike paths, big trees could all go on ‘green map’    In partnership with the BoroGreen group, the Hillsborough Public Library invites residents to “Map Our Town’s Treasures” starting with historical sites, bikeways, green businesses, parks, ball fields and trails on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 1-3:30 p.m.    At last November’s library workshop to launch the…

  • LAWRENCE: Grant sought for ‘trail’ above or below I-95

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Aiming to find out whether it would be possible to link the northern and southern sections of the former Johnson Trolley Line trail across I-95, Lawrence Township has submitted a grant application to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.    The grant application seeks $45,000 for a feasibility study to figure…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Spadea is best candidate

    Harold V. Kane, Monroe There is an old cliché in New Jersey Politics.¶ The cliché states "When it is the Republicans to lose, they will lose." The district 16 special election this year will be theirs to lose unless they wake up.¶ The electoral composition of the district has radically changed since the 2010 census.¶…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Students fete BOE members for service

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Students fete BOE members for service

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor Students from the high school, the two middle schools and Monmouth Junction Elementary School paid tribute to Board of Education members’ Monday night to commemorate New Jersey’s Board of Education Appreciation Month.¶ "They operate a nearly $140 million corporation and they do it as volunteers," Superintendent Dr. Gary McCartney…