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  • MANVILLE: Manville’s ‘mom and pops’ reduce recession’s impact

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    While Manville’s business community boasts a few large retailers, such as Walmart and A&P, it’s made up mostly of small Main Street businesses, “Mom and Pop” stores, and because of that many say Manville is faring well despite the current national economic crisis.    ”Some businesses have been very successful and…

  • Community calendar for Jan. 14

       Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, send a note to Manville News Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542.    All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to: [email protected] before…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Fried sues Tax Board over revaluations

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Mayor Dave Fried says he filed a lawsuit this week against the Mercer County Tax Board, a state agency under the Division of Taxation, seeking to force the body to order tax revaluations for every municipality in the county.    At issue is the township’s tax reval, which went…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Yugoslav exile spins historical tapestry with memoir

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Jasha Levi was covering the United Nations in New York for a Yugoslav news agency when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to quell a spontaneous revolution in 1956.    As he wrote in his recently published memoir, Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia already had been expelled from Cominform — the…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: New Peddie pool called ‘game-changer’

    By Sean Moylan, Special Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — After millions of dollars in building costs and nearly 19 months of construction, the expansion of the new Peddie School athletic facility is finished, and the Peddie co-ed varsity swim team is scheduled to officially open its new state-of-the-art natatorium with a regular-season meet against arch-rival Germantown Academy…

  • NEW Y ARTS & HUMANITIES CLASSES AT THE HILLSBROUGH FAMILY YMCA

    By Donna Dass Registration for the mid-winter session for the Somerset Valley YMCA begins Monday, January 18 for Full Privilege Members and Monday January 25 for Program Members. In addition to our nationally-recognized fitness and aquatic programs at each of our three locations, the following new arts, humanities and enrichment classes are being introduced at the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Seller’s remorse’ leads to gym purchase

    HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Seller’s remorse’ leads to gym purchase

    Tony Genovese (at right), fitness manager at Powerhouse Gym, works with William Kole during a fitness training session. Staff photo by Eileen Oldfield

  • WEST AMWELL: Fulpers are willing to talk about dispute

    Fulpers allege township violated General Development Plan and breached an underlying letter of intent By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — A family that is suing the township has approached the new mayor and the reorganized Township Committee with an offer to enter “discussions” with the goal of ending the longstanding dispute.    Robert Fulper…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Shopping for soldiers

    HILLSBOROUGH: Shopping for soldiers

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Triangle Elementary students round up supplies for U.S. troops    A group of 14 Triangle Elementary School fourth-graders clutched blue shopping bags stuffed with the playing cards, shampoo, deodorant, batteries, baby wipes and other items they just bought at Pathmark in town.    The students stood outside the supermarket, waiting for Army…