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  • Bargain hunters help some Manville stores battle retail downturn

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    MANVILLE — For Manville’s stores specializing in selling second-hand items, avoiding competition with department stores and other massive corporations is helping their bottom lines during the downturn in the economy.    Although they may not all be seeing big increases in sales, the shop owners say they think their product mixes…

  • Municipalities must cut energy expenditures

    Kevin P. Moroney of Montgomery To the editor:     Local elected officials are going to be faced with very difficult choices in the months to come. The unprecedented global financial situation is going to put enormous strain on the resources of all the local communities. It is therefore imperative that we make smart, sustainable choices…

  • Ceremony needs more diversity

    Jean A. Starks, Kingston    Since large numbers of American Muslims fought for the allies in both World War I and World War II, and since American Muslims who died in these and other wars in which this country has been engaged are buried in Arlington cemetery, I think it is only appropriate that a representative…

  • LAWRENCE: Middle School escapes ‘No-Child Left Behind’ list

    LAWRENCE: Middle School escapes ‘No-Child Left Behind’ list

    Lawrence Middle School has been removed from the ‘needs improvement’ category under the No Child Left Behind Act. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • ROBBINSVILLE – Proposed ethics board, ‘dirty laundry’ aired at meeting

    By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The most recent Township Council meeting once again came to a point of contention as members argued about the possible creation of an ethics board and revisited the issue of alleged impropriety.    In light of recent disagreements amongst council members, Councilwoman Sonja Walter recommended the township create a…

  • Beacon staff to relocate to Princeton

       HILLSBOROUGH — On Dec. 4 the staff of The Hillsborough Beacon will relocate to the main offices of The Princeton Packet Inc. in Princeton.    ”We will continue to have our reporters and editors in the communities they cover as often as possible,” said Aubrey Huston, editor of the Packet newspapers. “But the economic realities of…

  • LAWRENCE: Package with illegal drug delivered in error to couple

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Trenton Fire Department’s hazardous materials team was called to investigate a suspicious powder that a Pembroke Court couple brought to the Lawrence Township Police Department headquarters at 2:36 p.m. Nov. 11, police said.    One of the victims had received a package in the mail the day before, and when…

  • Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house

    Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house

    The 20-year project restoring the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Bachman-Wilson House in Millstone Borough earned Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, of Tarantino Studio, the first-ever preservation award from a state architechture association. Staff photo by John Patten

  • Hillsborough vet feted at Disney World

    Hillsborough vet feted at Disney World

    John Giordano holds the flag presented to him, as his wife, Annita, holds the plaque he received as Disney World’s Veteran for the Day on Veterans Day. Photo courtesy of the Giordano family.