Category: archives
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MANVILLE: Colts unable to score against Rumson
The Colts traveled down to Freehold for the second time this season to face an out-of-conference team, Rumson. Both teams came into the game winless, setting the tone for a great football game. The Colts’ lone team captain that night was Kody Keimig. Being a veteran Colt, his family was moving to Texas the…
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MANVILLE: Community calendar for week of Oct. 20
Saturday, Oct. 22 Halloween party: Manville/Hillsborough Elks Lodge “Scare-Raising Spooktacular” party for adults. 7 p.m. to midnight, 1500 Brooks Blvd., Hillsborough. Tickets $20 if bought before Oct. 21 and $30 at door. Call 908-420-0868. Sunday, Oct. 23 “Foodfest of Manville”: Showcase for local and area restaurants to benefit Manville First Aid and Rescue.…
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ALLENTOWN: Park improvements mulled
By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor ALLENTOWN Mayor Stuart Fierstein said the borough will price the cost of phasing-in new playground equipment for Sarah Barnes Park on Pearl Street. Mr. Fierstein said the state ordered the borough to remove, under threat of fines, all the playground equipment from the park in 2009 because it did…
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UPPER FREEHOLD: Township says no thanks to county’s solar project
By Jane Meggitt, Special Writer UPPER FREEHOLD The township has decided against partnering with the Monmouth County Improvement Authority this year on a solar initiative for its municipal buildings, but may consider going forward with it next year. The MCIA has been trying to put together a pooled power purchase agreement involving solar projects…
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Drive’: A smart, wll played take on the hard-guy American vigilante films that flourished in the last half of the last century, updated with a dose of grossly graphic violence.
By Elise Nakhnikian In one of his deceptively haimish digressions, businessman/gangster Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) tells the unnamed star of “Drive’ (Ryan Gosling) about the movies he used to produce. “One critic called them European,” Rose says. “I thought they were sh**.” That’s probably an in-joke planted either by or for director Nicolas Winding…
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Mercer County Community College’s Youth College to Host Youth Leadership Summit Oct. 22
By Brenda Whiteman West Windsor, N.J. – Mercer County Community College’s (MCCC) Youth College will host its first Youth Leadership Summit and Teen Town Hall meeting on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the college’s James Kerney Campus in Kerney Hall. Topics will include teen dating, domestic violence, goal setting, critical…
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LAWRENCE: Lecture to focus on slavery in Lawrence
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Slavery is most often associated with the South, but New Jersey — and Lawrence Township in particular — was not immune to the “peculiar institution,” which is an often-used euphemism for slavery. Rider University history professors Brooke Hunter and Roderick McDonald will present their findings on slavery in Lawrence Township…
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HILLSBOROUGH: We’re all for transparency in government
"Campaign Corner" material from the Republicans This material was submitted by Republican candidates for Township Committee, Mayor Gloria McCauley and Doug Tomson. So far, we have highlighted some of the accomplishments the Republican-led Township Committee has achieved over the last few years. But this week, instead of highlighting accomplishments, We would like to share with…
