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  • MANVILLE: New diner says ‘Happy Daze are here’

    MANVILLE: New diner says ‘Happy Daze are here’

    The staff of the new Happy Daze luncheonette — Brian Bishkoff, Darrell Delnero and Celeste Ulicny — have already learned the names of many of their regular customers, after the diner’s March 2 opening. Staff photo by Audrey Levine

  • MANVILLE: Dine out and help students

       Area restaurants will be pitching in to help Manville stduents in the coming weeks, with fundraisers planned that will help Weston School students, as well as a high school track star travel to Australia.    Monday night, Manville Pizzaria and Restaurant is holding a Family Night benefit for the Weston School PTA.    The South Main Street…

  • CRANBURY: Township picks up ‘e-waste’

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Township officials are looking at a new recycling service that adds “e-waste” to the laundry list of recyclable items residents can leave for curbside pickup.    ”Cranbury is looking to expand the pickups, (adding) more items that homeowners have had to dispose of,” said Linda Scott, the township’s recycling…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Grants to fund radio upgrade for firefighters

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The township’s fire district accepted a $230,400 grant Friday to purchase radios that will help firefighters maintain better communication during emergencies.    Rep. Leonard Lance, R-7th, presented the Hillsborough Township Fire District with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Fire Safety Grant from the United States Homeland Security Department in a press…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Annual Shelter concert grows into a two-day event

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    The draw for this year’s Shelter from the Storm event isn’t just a concert and fun fair — it’s providing communities in Haiti and Honduras with water filtration systems, the students organizing the event said.    ”There’s so much stuff to do,” Gina Blechman, a junior, said. “The concert is three…

  • MONROE: Board eyes tax hike

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — The Board of Education adopted a tentative $100,427,976 budget for the 2009-10 school year Monday that could have voters paying about $60 more in school taxes next year.    The spending plan is approximately $3.380 million larger than last year’s $97.047 million budget.    Business Administrator Wayne Holliday said much…

  • Har Sinai Religious Calendar through March 31

    By Har Sinai HAR SINAI TEMPLE MARCH 2009 CALENDAR March 19: March 20: March 21: March 22: "Lord’s Table" Meal at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Trenton, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m March 23: Preschool, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. March 24: March 25 March 26 March 27: March 28: March 29: Seder, 11 a.m. March 30: March…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Board hears pleas to increase spending

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Residents pack meeting introducing $109 million school budget    After almost five hours Monday — and surprising pleas from more than 100 residents to raise spending as high as the state will allow — the Board of Education approved a tentative $109 million budget for the 2009-2010 school year that comes…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Estate’s meadows burned to spur regrowth

    HILLSBOROUGH: Estate’s meadows burned to spur regrowth

       The New Jersey Forest Fire Service conducted a prescribed burn of 15 acres of meadow at Duke Farms on Saturday in conjunction with a workshop on habitat regeneration hosted by the Joint Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Ecological Restoration.    ”We are in the process of…