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  • MANVILLE: Candidates offer final thoughts
  • SENIOR CORNER: Week of April 21

       The Manville Senior Citizens meet at 12:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at the VFW located on Washington Avenue. The club is open to new members who are residents of Manville, age 60 or older, and age 55 if disabled.    Canned goods or non-perishable food items will continue to be collected before each…

  • MANVILLE: Ballplayers begin newest season

    MANVILLE: Ballplayers begin newest season

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    It was not quite baseball weather Saturday it seemed more like football season but that did not stop the players and coaches of the Manville Youth Athletic League from holding their opening day ceremony at Lincoln Park in Lost Valley.    Teams gathered for the traditional start of the season…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Auten Road School to host Holocaust program

       From 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Auten Road Intermediate School is hosting two guest speakers in a program about the Holocaust and World War II.    Hedy Brasch, a Hungarian survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Harry Ettlinger, an “About Facer,” who escaped from Nazi Germany and then returned to Germany to fight with…

  • MANVILLE: Ballplayers begin newest season

    MANVILLE: Ballplayers begin newest season

    Members of the MYAL read the Little League creed at Saturday’s opening ceremonies at Lincoln Park in Lost Valley. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • Somerset County Is Collecting Used Eyewear Through April

    Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders SOMERVILLE– The Somerset County Office on Aging and Disability Services will be holding a “spring-cleaning” collection of used prescription eyeglasses throughout the month of April. The public is invited to donate used eyewear that will be given to people home and abroad who do not have access to eye…

  • MANVILLE: Knitters have a home, too, with local crochet club

    MANVILLE: Knitters have a home, too, with local crochet club

    By mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    The newly formed Crochet Club and Knitting, Too has become very popular over the first six months of the club’s existence. The club is rapidly growing with more and more crocheters and knitters joining.    Catherine Spinola, the founder of the club, is very happy about the growth.    ”I think…

  • MANVILLE: Ballplayers begin newest season

    MANVILLE: Ballplayers begin newest season

    Although the weather did not cooperate and allow a full slate of games, it did not stop John Shabaugh of the Angels from having an Opening Day hot dog. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Freedom Fest organizers say large field eyed for parking

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    Organizers of the ninth annual Freedom Fest State Fair, which is moving this summer to a more centralized location closer to Allentown, say they are working on a traffic plan with the county that would allow the fair-goers to park their cars in a large field off Route 524 so…