Category: archives
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Womanspace seeks volunteers
By: centraljersey.com Womanspace is looking for volunteers to join the Domestic Violence Victim Response Team (DVVRT) and Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) Advocate Team. Team members respond to local police stations or hospitals and meet with victims, providing them with support, information and referral. In the past ten years the teams have served over 5,700…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Freezing rain adds to woes left by snow
Help prevent a disaster by thinking ahead and shoveling out around a buried fire hydrant near your home. The township fire marshal’s office is asking for residents’ help in clearing space around many of the estimated 1,500 hydrants in the township. Volunteer firemen (from left) Jay Spagnuolo, Rob Slovik and Capt. Tom Lachowski of the…
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MANVILLE: Board to re-register all students
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Students in the Manville School District will need to be re-registered in order to meet the planning needs of the district. There are about 1,300 students currently in the Manville School District in the four schools including the full-day kindergarten. The schools are faced with limited resources and a…
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MANVILLE: First aid squad appoints its new officers
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Manville First Aid and Rescue Squad and its Auxiliary held their annual installation of officers dinner on Jan. 22 at Fire Company No. 1. Members of both organizations attended. Squad officers for 2011 who were sworn in included Chief Cynthia Snow, Capt. Victor Emodi, 1st Lieut. Ronnie Caiazzo and…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Council OKs resolutions to accept two firefighter grants
By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE The Township Council recently adopted resolutions to accept two federal grants totaling $751,832 that will be used to hire four firefighters and purchase new equipment for the fire engine. The first federal grant, known by its acronym SAFER, provides the township with $700,604 to hire four laid-off firefighters…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Longtime teachers will retire
By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer Two teachers with a combined 70 years of experience in the township will retire effective July 1. Linda Arnold, a speech teacher at Sunnymeade School, and Carolyn Weber, a math specialist at Sunnymeade, are retiring at the end of the school year. ”I’m really kind of sad about it because…
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Grapevine
By: centraljersey.com And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream That we’ve both seen. – John Prine Egypt is getting turned upside down, apparently. I wish them all well, of course, as I’m sure everyone else does. Maybe we’ll see how much different things are when it all shakes out. I’ve been…
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Justin Feil
By: centraljersey.com Alexis Pezza usually uses her athleticism on the soccer field or softball diamond, but it has come in handy for the Hillsborough High School girls basketball team. The sophomore gives the Raiders another mobile forward to run by opponents. Pezza provided a career-high 16 points in Hillsborough’s 42-29 win over Franklin last Tuesday,…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Library Corner
The Robbinsville branch of the Mercer County Library System will be having the following adult and children’s programs in February. Pre-registration is required for all library programs unless otherwise noted. Call 609-259-2150. Adult Programs (February only): Volunteers from AARP will offer tax help from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Feb. 9, 16 and…
