Category: archives

  • Marcia Roques

       Marcia Roques died Tuesday, Sept 25, at the Princeton Care Center.    Born in Wellsville, N.Y., she lived in New York City before moving to Kendall Park in 1958.    She was a homemaker. She was past president of South Brunswick Women’s Club, an elder of Miller Memorial Presbyterian Church in Monmouth Junction and a member of…

  • Life Center girls’ soccer team wins Cougar Classic

    Sean Moylan Sports Writer The Life Center Academy girls’ varsity soccer team beat Cumberland Christian in a shootout to win this past weekend’s Atlantic Christian School Cougar Classic Tournament at the Atlantic Christian School.     The contest was knotted at 1-1 after regulation as Chloe Bercaw had the Warriors’ lone goal. Then LCA beat Cumberland…

  • Turnpike widening hurts community

    Deputy Mayor Bill Morelli of Bordentown Township I am writing as deputy mayor and member of the Bordentown Township Committee to explain what happened at the Turnpike Authority’s “public meeting” on Sept. 18 at the Bordentown Senior Center.    Much of the public could not attend because the meeting was scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.,…

  • Bomb scare empties municipal building

    By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    Borough police evacuated the Manville Municipal Complex Sept. 20, in response to a bomb threat at the building.    According to police, a court administrator received a phone call stating that a bomb was in the courthouse. Borough Administrator Gary Garwache estimated that approximately 12 borough employees were in the building…

  • DISPATCHES: Hijacking the process

    by Hank Kalet, Managing Editor    The Matrix Development Group wants to rally the troops.    The company is running an advertisement designed to generate sympathy for its cause by implying that the South Brunswick Planning Board’s failure to approve its proposed 744,000-square-foot warehouse — and the Township Council’s proposed rezoning of the area — will lead…

  • Backyards in black-and-white

    Backyards in black-and-white

    Peter Kulina, of Hillsborough, holds his photograph entitled “Aunt Mary’s,” which he took in 1981 as part of his project to document the sights of Manville at that time. Staff photo by Audrey Levine

  • Mustangs win first football game

    Rock, Palovick lead way by Shawn Tyrrell, Sports Writer    After two difficult losses in games it should have won, the Manville High football team made sure that the third contest of the season ended the way it was supposed to as the favored Mustangs routed St. Joseph’s of the Palisades 26-6 in West New York.…

  • Michael Guzik

       GRIGGSTOWN — Mike Guzik, 37, of Griggstown, died Sept. 9 of complications from lung cancer.    Born in New York, he was a Griggstown resident for 37 years and was a life member of the Griggstown Volunteer Fire Company, serving as recording secretary for more than 20 years.    Beloved husband to the late Britt Guzik and…

  • Walk to Cure Diabetes set at college

       NORTH BRANCH — More than 1,000 walkers representing local corporations, families, schools and other organizations from Somerset and Hunterdon counties are expected to turn out for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation annual Walk to Cure Diabetes on Sunday, Sept. 30, at Raritan Valley Community College.    Registration begins at 9 a.m.    The chapter’s goal is to…