Category: archives
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Holiday shopping tips for consumers
By: centraljersey.com The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs reminds shoppers to check the national list of recalled toys before going online or to stores this holiday season and to know their rights about rainchecks, gift cards and item refunds. "Consumers need to be alert and cautious this holiday shopping season. Con artists take no…
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MANVILLE: Blaze routs resident
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer It was very cold out but the Manville Fire Departments were called to duty Monday night as a fire burned in a second-floor apartment in a house on North 5th Avenue. The three Manville companies — Fire Company No. 1, Camplain Road Company No. 2 and North End Fire…
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Pat Tanner
By: centraljersey.com I recently asked a select group of Princeton-area chefs to share their most delicious, most furtive secrets, and, boy, did they ever! One was even moved to wax poetic. Contrary to what I’m trying to get you to believe, though, I asked not for their personal peccadilloes but rather for their best, most…
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MANVILLE: Kids of all ages take to the slopes
Cold temperatures, blowing winds and snow weren’t enough to keep many residents in from the first big snowfall of the season. Manville was hit with about 17 inches of snow during Sunday’s blizzard. As the snow finally stopped falling Monday morning, residents were out shoveling the white stuff, using snow blowers to clear walks and…
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MANVILLE: Kids celebrate a special birthday
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer The annual Birthday Party for Jesus at Sacred Heart Church was held during the Christmas Eve Mass for children. The children dressed in costumes to reenacted the nativity celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. Entering into the church to “Silent Night,” the Angel of the Lord…
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HILLSBOROUGH: HMS Drama Club to stage winter ‘Wonderland’
Seventh-grader Nicole Levine as Alice and eighth-grader Kiara Ryan as the White Rabbit during the Dec. 21 dress rehearsal of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” (Staff photo by Andrew Corselli)
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Week of Dec. 30
New Year’s Eve at the Elks Friday, Dec. 31 The New Egypt Elks will hold a New Year’s Eve party from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Elks lodge, 105 Lakewood Road. Cost of $25 includes buffet dinner, drafts, DJ and dancing. For more information, call 758-8700 or e-mail [email protected]. Women’s Club meeting…
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Linda Seida
By: centraljersey.com NEW HOPE – For the third consecutive year, the borough’s budget will maintain the tax rate and not increase property taxes in 2011. The average property owner, whose property is assessed at $47,400, will pay $555.77 in real estate tax next year to support borough services. The Borough Council approved the $3.2 million…
