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  • MANVILLE: Credit union, staff get kudos

    MANVILLE: Credit union, staff get kudos

    Manville Federal Credit Union scholarship winners Nancy May and Kristen Pallatta with credit union President Paul Mroz and Second Vice President Natalie Walkoviak. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Phantom’ up for scholastic ‘Tony’

    Will perform in Rising Star show on June 7 By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    The Hillsborough High School theater program is taking big steps as an organization. For the first time in school history, the group received 10 Paper Mill Playhouse “Rising Star” nominations, given for the best in New Jersey high school theater.    For…

  • Hillsborough Family YMCA Reminds Parents To Think Safety First When Picking A Camp

    By Hillsborough Family YMCA promotes water safety   Remember your fondest summer memories? Chances are many of them involved being at camp and in or around water. It’s hard to forget when you learned to swim: the joy of taking off the floaties and feeling nothing but your arms and legs propel you through the…

  • LAWRENCE: School district logs 21 senior retirements

    By Lea Kahn    When the Lawrence Township Public School District opens the schoolhouse doors in the fall, there will be many new faces in the classrooms — and not all of them will belong to new students.    Although the last day of school is still three weeks away, 21 employees have turned in their retirement…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Game-playing scares school, draws police

       Two township teens apparently playing a game called “Assassin” looked real enough to draw the attention of police Monday morning.    The 18-year-olds also got themselves arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.    Police said they were called at about 7:25 a.m. by someone who said they saw someone point a gun out of a vehicle window…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Grant sought for park project; use of open space tax questioned

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Township Committee last week authorized employees to work on a grant application to defray the cost of developing Reed Recreation Park, but refrained from appropriating any municipal money at this point for design work or permits.    Meanwhile, questions were raised during the May 19 Township Committee…

  • Support for Ocean Spray

    Jennifer Corbet, Toms River My response, as I am disheartened by the politicians chosen to be the voice for people who do not always agree with their opinions starving of facts.    I am absolutely disappointed at the negative attention this is receiving.    It is dishonorable behavior that the mayor of Bordentown, the person that represents…

  • MANVILLE: Weston teacher ‘humbled’ by award

    MANVILLE: Weston teacher ‘humbled’ by award

    Weston Elementary’s Teacher of the Year is Sharon Liszczak. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Holiday features vets’ breakfast, parade, ceremony

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Assemblyman Peter Biondi, a former mayor, and 90-year-old Armando “Monty” Consalvo of Branchburg will be co-grand marshals of the township’s Memorial Day ceremonies on Saturday.    Mr. Biondi said he met Mr. Consalvo last year, when the World War II veteran wrote the assemblyman’s office to say he hadn’t received the…