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MANVILLE: Events make note of Red Ribbon Week
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Manville Schools and the Manville Municipal Alliance will take part in National Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-30 to give students a chance to pledge that they will be drug and alcohol free. Kicking off the week, the Manville Senior Citizens and others will be tying red ribbons along Main…
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LAWRENCE: Schools set budget sessions
Meetings will help prepare for 2011-12 By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Anticipating another challenging operating budget to prepare for the 2011-12 school year, Lawrence Township school district officials are seeking input from parents as to what they would like to see in the spending plan. That’s why school district officials are holding a series of…
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BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS
A Spirit Walk sponsored by the Downtown Bordentown Association will be held on Friday, Oct. 22, from 6 11 p.m. The walk starts at the Farnsworth Avenue Public Parking Lot and continues through the town with discounts being offered at most of the Bordentown City shops and dining establishments. The Spirit Walk will feature…
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LAWRENCE: Markers offer message of local history, culture
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer In death as in life, everyone is unique and there are few better ways to express that uniqueness than through the headstones and their inscriptions in the local cemetery. But the design of those grave markers and the wording on them also offers some insight into history and sometimes…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: Anchorman: Seek many news sources
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Politicians prefer simple campaign advertisements and sound bites but politics is rarely as simple as those ads would make it out to be, and neither are the solutions to the issues facing the legislators. That was the message MSNBC newscaster David Shuster delivered to about 100 people Tuesday night…
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LAWRENCE: Library honors volunteer
Branch Manager James Damron honored longtime volunteer Jane Dziura at a celebration held in her honor at the library.
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New school awaits Chesterfield kids in the new year
By Amber Cox CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP – Elementary school students will have a fresh start to the new year when they enter a brand new $37 million building on Jan. 5. Furniture for the Chesterfield Elementary School on Saddle Way will be delivered by mid-December and teachers and staff will begin moving in and preparing classrooms…
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CRANBURY: Skeet’s begins food drive
By Natalia Knochowski, Staff Writer CRANBURY Residents can help other families in the greater community who are in need of some extra assistance during the holiday season by donating nonperishable and Thanksgiving meal foods. The First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury’s holiday food drive officially started Oct. 18 and ends on Nov. 15, said Andrew…
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POLICE BLOTTER: Week of Oct. 21
A motorist pulled up to the pump at the Route 1 Exxon gas station and asked for a full tank of gasoline at 7:40 p.m. Oct. 16, police said. The attendant filled up the tank with $55 worth of gasoline, and the motorist drove off without paying. * * * A 14-year-old girl was charged…
