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  • MANVILLE: Borough briefs

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Police powers in parks OK’d    The Borough Council unanimously approved an ordinance April 27 to amend a 2003 ordinance to allow the Manville Police Department to enforce Somerset County Park Commission rules and regulations on behalf of the county.    Councilman Ted Petrock was absent and did not vote.    Gerber Field…

  • High school honor roll

       Manville High School announced the third marking period honor rolls. Ninth grade    High honor roll: Audriana Formanowski    Honor roll: Jamie Alpaugh, Tyler Alpizar, Matthew Bowden, Ashley Crespo-Egas, Richards Cubero, Nicholas Galaini, Kristofer Grimm, Ericka Guevara, Peter Hando, Brooke Lathi, Devon Lawrence, Douglas Leubner, Megan Loriot, Luismael Monterroso, Rebecca Rogers, Vanessa Velez, Jennifer Wanjohi, Kristen Wells,…

  • Builder/Garden Builder Showcases “Super Green” Orangerie
  • MANVILLE: Continuing education

    MANVILLE: Continuing education

    Members of Manville First Aid and Rescue Squad and Manville Fire Department participated in a two-day training session focusing on making rescues in fast-moving waters, such as rivers or flooded streams. Photo courtesy of Melissa Reilly

  • HILLSBOROUGH: High school’s math contest adds up

    HILLSBOROUGH: High school’s math contest adds up

    Sophomores (left to right) Erika Ramos and Eric Wang, and junior Alex Block, provided the winning entries in the competition using art or language to express mathematical concepts.

  • MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school

    MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school

    Karen Ziemianek serves cookies while reading Robert Munsch’s “Get Out of Bed” during Weston School’s storytelling event. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school

    MANVILLE: Event focused on telling tales in school

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Teachers say reading to children is the best way to get kids interested in books, and to prove the point, the Manville Education Association held its annual storytelling event at Weston School on April 23.    More than 25 employees of the school district spent an hour reading to students…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Police Beat

       The resident of a home in the 200 block of Sunset Avenue reported April 29 that her daughter had taken her 1997 Honda Civic. The mother said she had given her daughter permission to take the vehicle, valued at $4,500, on April 11, but that it had not been returned. * * *    Amy Galarza,…

  • Winning CMS 6th graders highlight a Holocaust hero:

    Winning CMS 6th graders highlight a Holocaust hero:

    By Winning CMS 6th graders highlight a Holocaust hero: Community Middle School 6th graders Alisha Kanitkar and Shruti Marathe won the National History Day New Jersey State Championship in the grades 6-8, group exhibit category. This year’s contest theme was "The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies." Alisha and Shruti’s winning exhibit, titled "Raoul Wallenberg…