Category: archives
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Music store set to reopen
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer It will have new carpeting, walls, equipment and studio space, but the song will remain the same for students and customers at Manville’s Music Center, now renamed the Manville Music Shoppe. The store will reopen its doors after a complete renovation in the wake of the Jan. 26 death of…
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Fire taxes rise in local towns
Voters approve budgets in Millstone, Plumsted By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer Fire elections in local municipalities last weekend saw results that will increase fire tax rates in the coming year. MILLSTONE Much to the Millstone Fire District 1’s relief, recent history did not repeat itself last weekend. The budget, which had failed three times in…
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BRHS girls win Group I bowling
By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer Kim Limani, the best bowler in the storied history of the Bordentown High girls’ varsity bowling program, ended her brilliant bowling career in the only appropriate way with a championship. Last Friday the Scotties won their second straight NJSIAA Group I State title in a row at Brunswick Zone Carolier…
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MHS wrestlers face challenges at district tourney
Individual postseason begins by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor Manville High wrestling coach Pat Gorbatuk wasn’t expecting any favors at Tuesday night’s District 18 seeding meeting. The first-year head coach realizes his young wrestlers will be facing a tough battle against much larger schools in this weekend’s tournament at Hillsborough High School. The Mustangs enter the…
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Local athletes take run at Group track titles
By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer Mike Bowden must have thought he was caught in the middle of some weird “Twilight Zone” episode. Here he was running a personal best 9:38.69 indoor time in the 3,200 meter race of the NJSIAA Group III State Championship at the Tom’s River Bennett Complex on Sunday and he had…
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$5M sewer bond on the table
By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer MANSFIELD The Township Committee introduced a $5 million bond ordinance last week to pay for the wastewater treatment center slated to be built on Petticoat Bridge Road. A public hearing on the ordinance is slated for Feb. 27. The treatment plant will serve those who live in the village…
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Carl Behm
HILLSBOROUGH Carl R. Behm died Feb. 11 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 92. Born and raised in Bucksville, Pa., he moved to Hillsborough in 1943. Mr. Behm worked for Crystal Ice & Fuel as an oil burner mechanic from 1951 to 1977 and as a general maintenance mechanic for Foothill Acres…
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Ellen Thorn-Roshin
Artist, jeweler and teacher Ellen Loebel Thorn-Roshin of Princeton died Jan. 31. She was 81. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, she survived the Holocaust in hiding in Germany. She resided in Concordia, Hewlett, N.Y., and Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Princeton. She was an artist, jeweler, teacher, craftsperson, metalsmith and a director of geriatric occupational,…
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Teacher charged in sex broadcast
Faces maximum of 10 years in prison By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE A Pond Road Middle School teacher arrested last week and charged with broadcasting sexually explicit material to a 14-year-old girl has been released on bail, but is suspended from teaching, according to officials. Daniel Corvino, 31, a seventh- and eighth-grade technology…
