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  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Week of May 12

       Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, send a note to Manville News Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542.    All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to: [email protected] before…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Reca to lead school board again

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Four members of the Board of Education took the oath of office and Michael Reca was the board’s unanimous choice to serve another one-year term as president during the school board’s annual reorganization May 3.    School Business Administrator Robert DeVita administered the oath to the four winners of…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Library organizes programs on fishing, college entrance and personal assessment

    Library hosts college programs    Hillsborough’s public library will host programs on personal assessment, preparing for college and the hobby of fishing in the next week.    New Jersey author and certified counselor Diane Lang will help you find out your strengths and skills, and how they can work for you, in a program called “What Kind…

  • Appointments questioned

    Cinty Gallagher, Bordentown City As a resident of Bordentown City I have the luck of living in this wonderful little hamlet that has SO many positive attributes they are hard to name. Now and again though something happens that undermines this positivity.    I and, judging by last week’s letters page and the attendance at Monday…

  • Chinese Brush Art Painter Presents Artwork to Woodbridge Township

    Chinese Brush Art Painter Presents Artwork to Woodbridge Township

    Woodbridge Mayor John E. McCormac stands with Hengyi Aixinjueluo by her Chinese brush art painting, “The Eagle,” after it was presented to the township of Woodbridge on May 10.

  • ROBBINSVILLE: $9 million veterinary hospital opens in township

    ROBBINSVILLE: $9 million veterinary hospital opens in township

    The dental suite at NorthStar VETS. (Staff photo by Joanne Degnan)

  • ROBBINSVILLE: $9 million veterinary hospital opens in township

    ROBBINSVILLE: $9 million veterinary hospital opens in township

    Dan Stobie (right), chief of staff of NorthStar VETS, helps his 6-year-old son, Brandon, cut the ribbon at the grand opening Saturday of the new $9 million, 33,000-square-foot veterinary hospital in Robbinsville. Also pictured, from left, are Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried; Dr. Stobie’s partner, Charles Dorsett; and Brie Meisser, hospital administrator. The 24-hour hospital that…

  • LAWRENCE: Meals on Wheels has a long history in Lawrence

    By Lea Kahn    For nearly 30 years, Lawrence Township Meals on Wheels has been delivering a hot meal every weekday to those who cannot cook for themselves — mostly the elderly and others who are convalescing after a hospital stay.    Around noon, a two-member team of volunteers climbs the steps, rings the doorbell and waits…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: $9 million veterinary hospital opens in township

    ROBBINSVILLE: $9 million veterinary hospital opens in township

    The reception area at NorthStar VETS. The wall behind the granite counter features the 250-year-old brick and hand-hewn oak beams salvaged from the 18th-century farmhouse that formerly stood at the site of the new hospital on Robbinsville-Allentown Road. (Staff photo by Joanne Degnan)