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  • Tough weekend for MHS track and field athletes

    Tough weekend for MHS track and field athletes

    Matt Zangara takes the baton from Jason Pfoutz in the Central Jersey Group 1 Championships. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • ‘Too tragic’: Town mourns for victims of fatal I-95 crash

    Driver lost control of vehicle, says police By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    ”We lost a good person yesterday,” Lawrence High School Principal David Roman said Tuesday afternoon.    Twenty-year-old Thomas Carnevali Jr., a 2005 graduate of LHS, was killed along with his girlfriend in a one-car accident on I-95 Monday morning.    Mr. Carnevali’s 16-year-old brother, Michael,…

  • Budget hearing done, tax bills imminent

    By Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council held a public hearing on the 2008 municipal budget this week but won’t adopt the $5.9 million plan until July or August, after the state announces its extraordinary aid allotments.    But the council did authorize the issuance of estimated third-quarter tax bills, which will be due Aug.…

  • Tough weekend for MHS track and field athletes

    Tough weekend for MHS track and field athletes

    Yakobchuk, Teresak fine careers end in Egg Harbor by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    EGG HARBOR – It was a tough weekend all around for the Manville High track and field team at the Group 1 Championships in Egg Harbor.    Senior stars Lucy Yakobchuk and Melissa Teresak, who qualified for the state meet in multiple events,…

  • ‘Sex and the City’

    ‘Sex and the City’

    Fans of the HBO series may be disappointed in the feature-length version. By Bob Brown    IT started as a series of newspaper columns, eventually collected in a book. That was supposed to be the basis for a movie, but it became, instead, a TV series. Things have finally come full circle for Candace Bushnell’s frank,…

  • ‘Sex and the City’

    ‘Sex and the City’

    Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Steve (David Eigenberg) deal with marital issues in Sex and the City.

  • Springfield voters decide area’s only contested primary

    By Vanessa Holt and Stephanie Prokop, Register-News Staff SPRINGFIELD — Incumbent David Frank and Republican candidate John Hlubik will be on the November Republican ballot seeking two three-year Township Council seats. Mr. Frank received 341 votes and Mr. Hlubik received 377 votes. Challengers Linda Lovenduski and James Specca received 236 votes and 234 votes, respectively.…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Understanding brain cancer

    The longer you live, the more at risk you are for de veloping some types of cancer — including brain cancer. By Prithvi Narayan, M.D. Princeton HealthCare System       The recent diagnosis of Sen. Edward Kennedy with brain cancer is understandably drawing significant attention to a disease that is not as rare as most…

  • ‘Sex and the City’

    ‘Sex and the City’

    Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) are ready for a bidding war at Christie’s auction house.