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  • PLUMSTED: Crowd protests possible Police Department cuts

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    PLUMSTED — Residents and policemen concerned about possible layoffs in the Police Department offered the Township Committee ideas for reducing the municipal budget last week, but their suggestions didn’t add up to the nearly $100,000 in cuts elected officials are required to make.    Plumsted voters April 27 overwhelmingly rejected the…

  • LAWRENCE: Festival mixes memories & nature

    By Lea Kahn    The memories of two long-time supporters of the Lawrence Nature Center, both of whom died within the past six months, were honored Saturday afternoon at the township-owned nature preserve’s eighth annual nature festival.    A bridge that crosses a small stream on the nature preserve was dedicated in honor of Lawrence Beaber, who…

  • MANVILLE: Town welcomes store

    MANVILLE: Town welcomes store

    Customer Ellen Bogusky of Bridgewater purchases several items at the new 1$ Zone store in the Marketplace at Manville on North Main Street. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • CyberKnife “most promising” weapon in fight against prostate cancer

    By NEW BRUNSWICK – Men with prostate cancer no longer need to travel far from Middlesex County to receive the “most promising, highly effective and rapid treatment’’ that is available, according to Anthony Catanese, M.D., a central New Jersey urologist. Instead, those men can go to Saint Peter’s University Hospital, which boasts the central New…

  • MANVILLE: Town welcomes store
  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP:Cuts made after budget cap hike defeat

    Township to joinn county police dispatching center By Amber Cox    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The township is waiting for approval of its proposed budget cuts from the Department of Community Affairs to cover the $540,822 township deficit, now that its effort to exceed the 2 percent state-mandated spending limit was rejected.    A special referendum to raise…

  • MANVILLE: Eighth-graders plant a new tradition

    MANVILLE: Eighth-graders plant a new tradition

    Members of the eighth-grade class at ABIS have planted a community garden that will be open to all. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • Mayor disappoints

    Becky Free, Bordentown City At last night’s (5/9/2011) town council meeting several residents spoke up in support of Mike Hunninghake, whom the mayor has decided not to reappoint to the Bordentown Environmental Commission. Several people expressed how much they valued Mike’s work over the past nine years and their disappointment that the city was going…

  • MANVILLE: Eighth-graders plant a new tradition

    MANVILLE: Eighth-graders plant a new tradition

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    The Alexander Batcho Intermediate School Class of 2011 started a new tradition that will be carried on for years. The eighth-grade class planted a community garden on Saturday in the courtyard at Manville High School. The class was joined by parents, staff and friends.    ”This is the first time…