Category: archives
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MANVILLE: Students revive ‘80s faves in high school’s new musical
Manville High School’s production of “Back to the ‘80s” features more than 50 students, including (above, left to right) Eddie Alfaro, Claire Kondash, Nick Kita, Lindsay Zaccardi and Diante Hill, shown rehearsing a scene choreographed to the song “Footloose.” Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara
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Time to end residents’ flood problems
Leon Mortensen, Easton, Pa. I find myself compelled to write once again concerning the hardship the people of Manville go through every so many years regarding flooding. I am an ex-resident of Manville. I grew up in Manville, graduated from Manville High in 1971, worked for the borough street department while in college, participated in…
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MANVILLE: Pickup to continue for material used to make flood repairs
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Although pickups for material, such as lumber and sheetrock, from new construction was suspended as of yesterday, Wednesday,, the Department of Public Works still is ready to collect flood debris on a case-by-case basis. According to DPW Director Phil Petrone, any resident with flood debris or damage can call the…
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SHRHS budget tragedy
Phil Crandell, Lambertville I commend Victoria Marley for her cogent letter to the editor last week. She captured and explained critical comparative statistics that must frame the public debate around the SHRHS budget tragedy. She emphasized the annual cost to educate a South Hunterdon Regional High School (SHRHS) student is about $25,000. We spend…
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CRANBURY: Civil War group eyes Cranbury for memorial
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer CRANBURY The New Jersey Civil War History Association is eyeing Cranbury as the final resting place for a veterans memorial monument. The nonprofit organization, looking at the township’s Memorial Park as a site, is offering to provide the monument but is asking the township to take on the landscaping.…
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Resources on global warming
Greg LeMunyan, New Hope, Pa. Laurel K. Hills paints me as closed-minded, politically motivated and uninterested in the facts on global warming. I did answer the question posed about what would change my mind on human-induced global warming. What would change my mind is scientific evidence indicating the body of work done for decades…
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EAST WINDSOR: Township to lose $900,000-plus in state aid
Mayor questions legality; special meeting set By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor EAST WINDSOR Mayor Janice Mironov repeated the six-figure amount, digit by digit, over and over. She said she had also done so in her sleep. ”9-0-4-2-1-7.” ”9-0-4-2-1-7.” ”9-0-4-2-1-7” She wasn’t making a joke. The mayor said Thursday she could not believe the “bomb”…
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Wipe the slate clean
Doug Kurz, Lambertville If you commissioned a root cause analysis of why SHRHS is the most expensive high school in the entire state of New Jersey, it would reveal the following: — An intransigent, evasive administration and board with a history of acting in a defiant and racketeering manner contrary to the public mandate…
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CRANBURY: Budget cuts could force changes for Senior Center
By Maria Prato-Gaiens, Staff Writer CRANBURY The township Senior Center is considering whether to curtail its lunch program, cut meetings or charge for services now that a request for $3,000 in new funding was denied. The Senior Center will receive $5,700 from the Township Committee in 2010, the same amount it received in 2009.…
