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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Young umpires keep league games square

    HILLSBOROUGH: Young umpires keep league games square

    The Hillsborough Baseball League relies on more than 60 junior umpires to officiate games. Photo courtesy of Joe Hernandez

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Fire guts school buses

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    Thirteen school buses were damaged during an early morning fire at a township bus yard Tuesday.    Police were dispatched to the First Student Bus Service, located at 221 Henderson Road, at 12:54 a.m. and arrived to find a number of buses engulfed in flames, with their tires exploding.    Officers were…

  • ROOSEVELT: December trial set in murder

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    A trial will start sometime in December for the Gettysburg College senior accused of killing a Roosevelt woman in his off-campus apartment.    Kevin Schaeffer, 21, of Oley, Pa., pleaded not guilty June 2 in Adams County Superior to charges that he strangled and stabbed Emily Silverstein, 19, in the early…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Amwell Road projects all but finished

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    After six months of detours around sections of Amwell Road, the county’s project to repair three bridges has been completed.    According to John Kendzulak, Somerset County Bridge Coordinator, the main work for the projects is finished and the Amwell Road Bridge was finally reopened Friday (June 12), after an initial…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: The sounds of spring

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: The sounds of spring

    Staff photo by John Keating. Monmouth Junction third-grader Charlense Peng plays "Ode to Joy."

  • Community calendar

       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…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter

       Andrew Kvarta, 26, of Skillman, was charged with drunken driving, failure to use due caution and circumspection and failure to keep right after police responded to a call about an accident on Montgomery Road at 2:34 a.m. May 31.    Upon arriving at the scene of the accident, police found a vehicle resting on its driver’s…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: At 8, he collects food for poor

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — For one local student, the desire to help others has come at a very early age.    And for his efforts in spearheading a food drive that collected close to 70 bags of groceries for the East Windsor-Hightstown community’s less-fortunate residents, he has been given an award from the…

  • Sports proves to be universal language

    Eden Acres team has another good showing at Special Olympics NJ By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     EWING—One of Mona Shahid’s main jobs as a manager of Eden Acres group homes is to help develop communication skills among the residents.     “It’s hard for people with autism to communicate, express themselves,” Shahid said. “As teachers,…