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Community calendar
Friday, Oct. 23 Clothing drive A clothing drive will be held to benefit the Allentown High School field hockey team. Used clothing, linens, shoes and stuffed animals will be accepted. Place donations in heavy garbage bags and bring to AHS. Drop-off is outside the new gym in the senior parking lot (by the athletic…
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MANVILLE: Signups under way for recreation sports
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Manville Recreation Department is currently holding registrations for the winter sports season of basketball and wrestling. Children in kindergarten through eighth grade are eligible to register. Registrations for all programs will continue until Oct. 30, with the programs running through March 2010. Kindergarten to fourth-grade players can join the…
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CRANBURY: Hopefuls offer views on township issues
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer CRANBURY — With the election just weeks away, Township Committee candidates are weighing in on issues affecting the community, including budgeting, library planning and farmland preservation. This year’s candidates, Democrats Dave Cook and Glenn Johnson and Republicans Dan Mulligan and Jay Taylor, are vying for two three-year seats on the…
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MANVILLE: Lance announces flood study funding
U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance, R-7th, (second from left) announced additional funding for Manville’s flood mitigation study Tuesday at the municipal complex, with Mayor Lillian Zuza (at left), Assemblywoman Denise Coyle, R-16th, and Borough Councilman Steve Szabo. Staff photo by Audrey Levine
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MANVILLE: Subsidized housing program renewed
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer In a routine move to continue its cooperation with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution Oct. 12 to submit its plan to continue to subsidize 90 units of federally-funded, reduced-rent housing in the borough. Councilmen Ken Otrimski and Ted Petrock…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Total reported incidents stable in violence tally
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer Total incidents of violence and vandalism in Hillsborough schools went unchanged between the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school year, the types of incidents varied slightly from the previous year, according to a report District Superintendent Edward Forsthoffer gave at Monday’s Board of Education meeting. ”My primary responsibility as superintendent of schools…
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Community calendar for Oct. 22
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…
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MANVILLE: Homyak singing on group’s new CD
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Manville resident Stephanie Homyak, a sophomore attending The College of New Jersey, has taken her singing career a step further, recording a new CD to be released in early December with the all-girl group, Shockwave. The 20-member band a cappella group at Rutgers University was founded in the fall…
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CRANBURY: Residents question Township Committee candidates
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer CRANBURY More than 50 people gathered in the Cranbury School cafeteria Oct. 13, ready to hear what Township Committee candidates had to say about the issues that affect them. Among the issues discussed by Republican candidates Dan Mulligan and Jay Taylor and Democratic candidates Dave Cook and Glenn Johnson…
