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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Board’s network to launch Oct. 6

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    While the district is always trying to improve and increase communication with community members, this year, it hopes to create a committee of parents, teachers, residents with no children in the schools, and business owners to gather more input on school issues.    ”The board’s Communications Committee has been discussing this…

  • CRANBURY: A day downtown

    CRANBURY: A day downtown

    ANDREA KANE Brian Deleon, of Princeton, finishes first in the Helene Cody Cranbury 5K. Andrea Kane photo

  • MANVILLE: Student ambassador embraces international travel opportunity

    MANVILLE: Student ambassador embraces international travel opportunity

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Touring six European countries in 19 days in July, trying new things, seeing the sights and just having fun was a highlight of the summer vacation that Somerset County Vo-Tech sophomore Samantha Komoroski enjoyed, after she was selected to be a student ambassador with the People-to-People International program. People-to-People…

  • Zook-Blount

    By: centraljersey.com Nikki Zook, daughter of Don and Luanne Zook of Milford, Del., and Branton Blount, son of Barry Blount of Hopewell and Libby Hicks of Pennington, were married May 8 at The Mountain Lakes House in Princeton. A reception followed at The Mountain Lakes House. The bride was given in marriage by her father.…

  • Borkowska’s 4.0 earns school’s President’s List

    By: centraljersey.com Two Manville students attending Berkeley College campuses were recognized by college President Dario A. Cortes for attaining listing on the school’s Dean’s and President’s Lists for the spring 2010 quarter. Monika Borkowska, attending the school’s Middlesex Campus in Woodbridge, was named to the President’s List for attaining a 4.0 grade point average, while…

  • School buses should never lose track of students

    By: centraljersey.com When parents place their children on the school bus, they shouldn’t have to worry that the bus driver will lose track of them. But that’s what happened last week in South Brunswick, where a bus driver with a private contracting firm repeatedly insisted that twin first-graders reported missing were not on her bus,…

  • PBSN Singles Night at The Philly Pops Concert – Broadway Rocks!, Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Wednesday, October 6, 2010
  • HILLSBOROUGH: Festivals want teen’s horror film screenplay

    HILLSBOROUGH: Festivals want teen’s horror film screenplay

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    When Jaylon Kurt learned her screenplay “Us” had been selected as finalist in two festivals for horror, suspense and science fiction films, the 16-year-old’s reaction was similar to what her script was trying to evoke.    ”I was freaking out,” Jaylon said. “I was so excited, I screamed.”    The festivals, Shriekfest,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Couple’s party to aid Arc … and maybe help their wedding

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    For Gina Marie Mattei and her fiancée, Matt Kleinhans, “happily ever after” came soon after they met.    Now, the couple has a chance at having Roman Jewelers, of Flemington, pay for their wedding, if they raise enough funds and awareness for the Arc of Hunterdon County.    Ms. Mattei and Mr.…