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  • MANVILLE: Community calendar, week of Jan. 5

    Sat., Jan. 10    Government reorganization: Mayor-elect Angelo Corradino will be sworn to a four-year term, and Councilman-elect Ed Komoroski to a three-year spot at the local government reorganizes at 11 a.m. in the courtroom of the borough building on South Main Street. .Tues., Jan. 10 and 17    Board of Education: Work meeting is on Jan.…

  • Springfield mulls options for school referendum

    By Amber Cox, Special Writer    SPRINGFIELD — The Board of Education and the public heard four possible options for the district’s planned school referendum to renovate the 73-year-old Springfield School.    Robert Garrison Jr. of Garrison Architects presented the board with the options on Dec. 20.    The board had originally proposed a March 13 date for…

  • Patricia Raymond Appointed By Dilon Diagnostics

    Patricia Raymond Appointed By Dilon Diagnostics

    By Par Resources Patricia Raymond of Hightstown, NJ has been recently appointed by Dilon Technologies Inc. as the Account Manager for the New York Territory covering New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts for the Dilon Diagnostics Brand, based in Newport News, Virginia. Raymond has extensive experience including mammography, ultrasound, MRI and breast intervention…

  • MANVILLE: Justice calls it a career

    Police dog will be retired from active duty By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Justice may only be 10 years old, but he retired Dec. 31 from the Manville Police Department.    He was the K9 dog for the department and the partner of Patrolman Joe Buda for the past seven years.    The full-bred black…

  • MANSFIELD: Sewers, warehouse projects inch closer to construction

    DEP to forgo public hearing By Amber Cox, Special Writer    MANSFIELD — The Department of Environmental Protection has finally decided not to hold a public hearing regarding the township’s Wastewater Management Plan.    However the township is still waiting on final approval that will clear the way for construction of a sewer system for Columbus and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Colleagues choose Suraci as mayor for 2012

    HILLSBOROUGH: Colleagues choose Suraci as mayor for 2012

    That’s my dad!Baby Hailey Tomson, being held by her mom, Rachel, beams at her father, Douglas, as he takes the oath of office Tuesday night. Mr. Tomson, a lifelong township resident, was elected to his first three-year term on the Township Committee. 

  • MOVIES: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’; ‘Young Adult’

    MOVIES: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’; ‘Young Adult’

    Women who don’t care if men hate them By Elise Nakhnikian    We’ll know feminism has finally taken root when the female leads in the stories we tell ourselves behave just as badly as the male leads do. We haven’t gotten there yet, but two current movies are giving us an idea of how things…

  • MANVILLE: 250 motorcyclists turn out for New Year’s Day ride

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    The weather was beautiful, the company was inviting, and it was all for a worthy cause.    What a great way to start off the New Year.    The Manville-Hillsborough Elks Motorcycle Club held its fourth annual New Year’s Day Hangover Ride on Sunday, Jan. 1, with more than 250 bikers…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Ex-kickboxing fighter opens shop

    By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor    BORDENTOWN CITY — You don’t want to mess with Michele Thompson.    She’s only 4-foot-11 but she’s been doing martial arts since the age of 5 when she watched grade-B action flicks with her dad and tried out the moves on him.    ”He’s my number one fan. I’m the son he…