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  • MANVILLE: Programs to improve test scores detailed

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Though two of Manville’s four schools missed No Child Left Behind act testing requirements this year, district officials have several programs in place aimed at improving the students’ learning — and, they hope, raising the scores.    Barbara Popp, the district’s director of curriculum and instructional assessment, presented the most recent…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Nonprofits hit hard by recession

    Better Beginnings boss: We could be forced to close By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    Luz Horta, executive director of Hightstown’s Better Beginnings day care center, isn’t sure her nonprofit agency will be around come 2011.    ”I just don’t know,” Ms. Horta said. “We can lose one major fundraising source, and that can have an adverse…

  • NBC girls basketball team edged in thriller

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     The Northern Burlington High School girls basketball team was unable to hold on to a fourth-quarter lead and was edged by Burlington Township, 39-38, on Friday.     Northern Burlington had taken a 27-21 lead into the fourth quarter. Burlington Township then surged ahead heading into the final seconds of…

  • ALLENTOWN: Girls, boys basketball slowed down in tough week

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     The Allentown High School girls basketball team lost by 18 points. It lost a late lead and was defeated in overtime. A 5-2 record shrunk to 5-4. Well, at least their bus didn’t break down . . . Oh, wait a minute.     “Our bus broke down on the…

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  • FLORENCE: Car hits ditch, catches fire

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    FLORENCE — An Upper Freehold woman was sent to the hospital early Sunday morning after police said her car flipped over and caught fire while she was intoxicated.    Rebecca J. Banuelos, 22, of the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold, was charged Sunday with drunken driving, failure to maintain lane…

  • LAWRENCE: Group recounts ‘nightmare’

    LAWRENCE: Group recounts ‘nightmare’

    Phil McAuliffe Todd Stone-Sapp gets emotional during a news conference after returning from a church mission in Haiti. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter from the Jan. 21 edition

    Route 206 between Carter Road and Cold Soil Road was blocked for 14 hours after a tree fell across the road next to the Upper Cemetery early Monday morning, according to police.     A passing motorist contacted the Police Department at 2:51 a.m. to report a tree had fallen and was blocking both lanes, police…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: RHS basketball game to benefit injured teen

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer     ROBBINSVILLE — Robbinsville High School plans to donate proceeds from Friday’s basketball game to the family of Sean Nemazie, the local teen seriously hurt in a car crash earlier this month.     Robbinsville’s boys basketball team is scheduled to play Princeton High School in the Robbinsville High School gym…