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  • MANVILLE: Ciattarelli to get early start in Assembly

    County GOP votes for Montgomery’s Mark Caliguire to fill freeholder vacancy By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Hillsborough’s Jack Ciattarelli will be sworn in as the state Assembly’s newest member on Monday, it appeared yesterday.    Mr. Ciattarelli was selected by acclamation by the county Republican committee Tuesday night to fill the remaining six weeks of…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Leaking pool from play damages school stage

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    One of the creative stagecraft features of the Hillsborough High School theater department’s fall drama production was a 12-foot by 16-foot pool on stage, around which much of the action took place.    It now appears the waterproofing barrier for the pool, which was specially built, leaked, causing thousands of dollars…

  • MANVILLE: He gives tree, and hospital kids will benefit

    Tree from Manville featured in downtown Philadelphia By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    A Manville 30-foot blue spruce Christmas tree made a lot of children and adults very happy this holiday season.    The tree was owned by Michael Holodinski, of South 15th Avenue, and now is the centerpiece at the Rittenhouse Square Park in Philadelphia.…

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank Announces 90th Anniversary Winners

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank Announces 90th Anniversary Winners

    By Rosanne Schwab BEDMINSTER, NJ – November 30, 2011 – On September 21, 2011, Peapack-Gladstone Bank officially celebrated 90 years of community banking. Guests were invited to visit any of the bank’s 23 locations to join in the festivities with food, fun and 90th Anniversary giveaways. Individuals were also provided the opportunity to enter a sweepstakes to…

  • ALLENTOWN:UFRSD parents schooled on anti-bullying law

    By Rachel Lavery, Special Writer    UPPER FREEHOLD — The principals of all three Upper Freehold Regional district schools explained, at recent PTA meeting, how the district deals with incidents of reported bullying as required by a new state law, and how it distinguishes between normal conflicts and actual bullying.    The NJ Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights…

  • MANVILLE: Santa will deliver gifts atop fire truck

       Santa Claus is coming to town…and he’ll be riding in a local fire truck!    The Camplain Road Volunteer Fire Company is sponsoring its annual Santa gift delivery fundraiser Friday through Sunday, Dec. 17-19.    For a minimum $10 donation per family, Santa Claus will arrive at your home via his sleigh and fire truck to deliver…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Foxmoor man’s field goal nets cash prize

    ROBBINSVILLE: Foxmoor man’s field goal nets cash prize

       NEW BRUNSWICK — With $2,000 on the line and thousands of college football fans in attendance, Dan Perrone, of Robbinsville, recently split the uprights at High Point Solutions Stadium, and earned cash for himself and the Rutgers scholarship program.    Mr. Perrone, 25, a research analyst who says he has no football experience aside from backyard…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police: We’ll be on lookout for drunk drivers

       Hillsborough police warn they will take part in a crackdown on impaired drivers from Dec. 5 through Jan. 2.    In that period, the local department will conduct DWI checkpoints as part of the statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” program, which also will include sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols looking for motorists who may…

  • MANVILLE: Elks tree sale benefits special charities

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    For the past 21 years, the Manville-Hillsborough Elks Lodge 2119 has been holding its annual tree sale at the lodge on Brooks Boulevard.     The fresh-cut trees arrived Sunday, and the sale began after the trees all were set up. Christmas trees and grave blankets are available for…