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  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Ocean Spray plant to close in two years

    By Amber Cox    BORDENTOWN CITY — Ocean Spray, which has had a manufacturing plant in the city on East Park Street for more than 60 years, has decided to leave town in two years.    City and state officials began negotiations with the company last fall in an effort to keep it from moving to Pennsylvania.…

  • MANVILLE: Recreation Department plans summer camps

       The Manville Recreation Department is now sending out its program notices and registrations via e-mail. The department will no longer be sending home flyers through the schools due to the rising costs of producing the copies.    Director of Manville Recreation Rich Armstrong urged all residents to sign up on the website — manvillerec.org — to…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Incumbents Ciaccio and Levesque, and newcomer Witt win Township Council seats

    Updated By Michael Boonin, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — Voters on Tuesday re-elected Christine Ciaccio and Rich Levesque to the Township Council and put Planning Board member Ron Witt on the governing body for the first time.    With 13.6 percent of the township’s registered voters going to the polls, Ms. Ciaccio was the top vote-getter with…

  • LAWRENCE: Relay for Life steps off at igh school on May 20

    By Lea Kahn    For several hours May 20, the Lawrence High School track will be filled — not with track stars, but with cancer survivors, their caregivers and their supporters at the Relay for Life of Lawrence Township cancer research fundraiser.    The Relay for Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraising event, and the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Choice schools’ give education option to parents

    It would come at a cost to local school district    Parents have another school option for their children _ but it would cost the township school system for each pupil who leaves the system.    In addition to charter schools (see related story), township students may apply to some area schools under the state’s School Choice…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Charter school expands its reach

    By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    A charter school trying to start in Flemington has expanded its potential coverage area to include Hillsborough.    Trillium Charter School, which will open in the fall of 2012, will teach kindergarten through fourth grades in its first year, and then add one grade each year until it gets to eight,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Senior citizens’ column for week of May 12

    CHAPTER A    Chapter A meets the first Thursday of the month in the municipal complex. We are open to new members. Doors open at 11:30, allowing you time to review the activities, sign up for our many trips and visit with friends. We have coffee and doughnuts at the end of the meeting.    The meeting…

  • 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…