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  • Oct. 25 gala at ETS to honor Fred Vereen

    Oct. 25 gala at ETS to honor Fred Vereen

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Fred Vereen, the retiring manager of the Eggerts Crossing Village housing complex, will be honored at the “Trumpeting Success” gala set for Oct. 25 at the Educational Testing Service’s Conant Hall.    Mr. Vereen is bowing out after 34 years of managing the 100-unit subsidized housing complex at 175 Johnson Ave.…

  • Council OKs county multi-hazard plan to reduce flood costs

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    MANVILLE — Borough residents can get better prepared to deal with the next flood or disaster, now that the Borough Council has joined other communities in the county in accepting a hazard mitigation plan.    Adoption of the Somerset County Multi-Jurisdictional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan means Manville and other communities can apply…

  • Police blotter

       MANVILLE — Eduardo Garcia, 18, and Alfredo Garcia, 19, no addresses given, were charged with simple assault at 3:02 a.m. Oct. 5 on South Main Street.    Police received a call about an assault on South Main Street, and reported finding the victim, a 23-year-old male, near the scene. The victim said he’d been punched and…

  • Mary Keller

       MANVILLE – Mary (Welshko) Keller, 91, died Oct. 9 at Somerset Medical Center. She was born in Freeland, Pa., to her late parents Michael and Anna (Stavar) Welshko, and had resided in Manville since 1951.    She was a communicant of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Manville. She enjoyed cooking and baking.    Ms. Keller was…

  • New look for annual Unity Day

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Planning a party for an entire township is no easy task.    Especially if you are trying to include something for everyone in a community as large and diverse as South Brunswick is today.    Yet that’s exactly what Diana and Steven Reichenstein set out to do when they took on the…

  • Vikings stun Bishop Ahr

    Emotional victory ends Trojans streak By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    What started as a dismal day, ended as one of the greatest days in South Brunswick High School gymnastics history.    Simply stated, it was the biggest win in SBHS gymnastics history.    And, when you put it in historical perspective, one of the biggest wins of…

  • MHS Key Club sets fall blood drive

    By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    MANVILLE — The Manville High School Key Club will hold its annual fall blood drive Monday.    The drive will be held in the Manville High School auditorium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is open to community members, school staff, and students over age 17, Key Club President Ana…

  • Lawrenceville Fire Company open house a big hit with kids

    Lawrenceville Fire Company open house a big hit with kids

    Katy Terry and daughters Phoebe, 18 months, and Annie, 3, visit a robot Dalmatian named Flashy during last week’s open house. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Lawrenceville Fire Company open house a big hit with kids

    Lawrenceville Fire Company open house a big hit with kids

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    With a look of intense concentration on her face, Bailyn Prichett held the fire hose and aimed it at the red cups suspended in the windows of the cardboard house in the driveway alongside of the Lawrenceville Fire Company.    Bailyn moved the hose in a circular motion, under the supervision…