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  • MANVILLE: MHS honors winter teams

    by Mary Ellen Zangara, Correspondent    The annual Manville High School Winter Sports Awards banquet was held March 5 at St. Mary’s Parish Hall. The MHS Athletic Booster Club sponsored the dinner to recognize the achievements of the winter athletes.    Players, coaches, parents, teachers and administrators gathered to celebrate the end of the wrestling, basketball and…

  • Talk on Green Burials

    Talk on Green Burials

    By Funeral Consumers of Princeton FUNERAL CONSUMERS ALLIANCE OF PRINCETON PHONE: 609-924-3320 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.princetonol.com/groups/fcap/ An all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting advance planning for funeral and memorial arrangements. News for Immediate Release Date: March 13, 2009 Press contact: Mea Kaemmerlen, 609-799-1419, [email protected] Laurie Powsner, 609-577-1948, [email protected] Website: www.princetonol.com/groups/fcap/ To interview the author: email:…

  • Talk on Green Burials

    Talk on Green Burials

    Mark Harris will speak about Green Burials on April 19, 2009, at Erdman Hall, 20 Library Place in Princeton

  • NJ State Library Launches Web Site for Residents to Get Help!

    By Gary Cooper As the New Jersey economy weakens, unemployment figures increase and family incomes shrink, the New Jersey State Library has launched a new Web site designed to make it easier for residents to connect to state programs, services and agencies that can help them during these tough economic times. “Many New Jerseyans are…

  • MANVILLE: ABIS holds first sports banquet

    MANVILLE: ABIS holds first sports banquet

    The ABIS wrestling team poses with the sportsmanship trophy it received from the league for the second straight year. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • MANVILLE: ABIS holds first sports banquet

    MANVILLE: ABIS holds first sports banquet

    Winter athletes, teams honored by Mary Ellen Zangara, Correspondent    Alexander Batcho Intermediate School held its first sports awards banquet for the school’s young athletes. The dinner was held Feb. 26 in the ABIS cafeteria with families and staff joining the players and coaches.    Dr. James Brunn principal of the school welcomed everyone: “When I see…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Police seek man in bank robbery

    BORDENTOWN CITY: Police seek man in bank robbery

    Police released this photo of a man they said stole $3,000 from the Roma Bank at Route 130 and Crosswicks Road Monday morning.

  • CRANBURY: Family fights to bury their father

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Surrounded by loved ones, Harold St. John took his dying breaths at his daughter’s Cranbury home Feb. 28, succumbing to a year’s battle with pleural mesothelioma cancer.    Now, nearly two weeks later, Mr. St. John’s grave site at the Holy Cross Burial Park in South Brunswick still remains empty…

  • MANVILLE: MHS Winter Sports Awards

    by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    Manville High’s winter season was much more productive and exciting than the previous year when the school produced only nine total victories. Although all three varsity teams finished well below .500 again, both boys’ squads made considerable improvement.    The final records of the wrestling and boys’ basketball teams didn’t reflect…