Category: archives
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Guiliano and Maiorano provide Redbirds a good start
By Kyle Moylan, Sports Editor TOMS RIVER — When the Allentown High School baseball team wanted to get off to a good start this season, it needed to look no further than the heartbreak of losing to Ocean 1-0 in the Central Jersey sectional final last year for motivation. Well, that and the two guys…
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Christina daNave
HILLSBOROUGH Christina daNave died June 1 at home. She was 83. Born Pawtucket, R.I., she lived in Manville for 26 years and Hillsborough for 18 years. Mrs. daNave was a homemaker. She was a member of the congregation of The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Bridgewater for 25 years. Her husband, Amadeu daNave,…
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Council likes GOP’s plan for state cuts
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer As the July 1 deadline for the approval of the state budget draws closer, the Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday supporting a Republican legislative budget plan that would restore municipal aid. Under Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed $33.3 billion state budget, Manville stands to lose about $214,000 in…
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Mercer, Hightstown lauded in immigration report, however …
By Lauren Otis, Packet Group TRENTON — Mercer County’s embrace of immigrants into its community and workforce is more enlightened than other areas of the state, but much more needs to be done locally in the face of a lack of federal government oversight coupled with increasingly draconian enforcement measures targeting undocumented immigrants here. So…
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Scrapbook documents Monmouth Junction School’s beginnings
by Davy James, Staff Writer The pages are old and faded — containing the observations of a generation witnessing progress — documenting the steps toward modernizing the elementary school and town of Monmouth Junction. On June 6, a scrapbook that was assembled almost 60 years ago to record the process of building the Monmouth Junction…
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Seeking refuge from the heat
But not everyone can duck out when it gets hot By John Dunphy and Lea Kahn, Staff Writers Heat … it’s hot. Perhaps that statement is only slightly more obvious than the advice to stay indoors earlier this week, as the region experienced its first heat wave of the season. Temperatures here reached the mid-90s…
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Consultant discusses new COAH regulations
Program sponsored by Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Planning consultant David Kinsey makes no bones about his passion for providing affordable housing. Every town has the opportunity to provide affordable housing, and each is going to have to evaluate how it plans to deal with the state Council on Affordable…
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ON CAMPUS
Margaret Ellen Lumia, formerly of Allentown and the daughter of Frank and Carolyn Lumia of Allentown, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in public health by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Public Health. She attended Notre Dame High School in Lawrence, completed her undergraduate studies at…
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Community calendar
Compiled by Mary Stulack Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, drop a note to Mary Stulack, Calendar, 52 Broad St., Hopewell, NJ 08525. All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (359-3930) or…
