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  • Township Committee delays ordinance vote

    Plan to finance sewer lines will be on agenda July 10. By: Audrey Levine    A vote on an ordinance to extend sewers to homes off Mountain View Road will have to wait until next month, since two committee members were absent at this week’s meeting.    The proposed ordinance authorizes borrowing $500,000 for the installation of…

  • Jack Warzybuk

       OCEANSIDE, Calif. —Jack Warzybuk, died March 9 in Oceanside, Calif. He was 83.    Born and raised in Manville, he moved to Oceanside, Calif., a year and half ago.    Mr. Warzybuk was a retired assemblyman with Ford Motor Co. where he was employed for more than 25 years.    He was a communicant and usher at Sacred…

  • Code targets ‘jerks’

    By: Rebecca Weltmann    UPPER FREEHOLD — A uniform code of conduct aimed at the few "jerks" who curse and harass players and coaches at the township’s youth athletic events is expected to be introduced by the Township Committee at its July 12 meeting.    "I think it’s a great thing and I think it’s needed," said…

  • BUZZ IN THE HALLS

    A bucket of wishes for summer reading By: Pam Koharchik    I know, I know. I announced my annual sabbatical in the last column and here I am typing again. However, there was good reason for me to get back into the school zone after the last day of school: wishes.    You see this year’s graduation…

  • Web UpdateMob ties suspected in abandoned baby case

    Authorities ‘vey anxious’ to talk with Millstone man By: Vic Monaco Vic MonacoManaging Editor    TRENTON – Rosario "Roy" Digirolamo flew to Italy five days after his baby son was abandoned in Delaware and one week after the mother of the child disappeared.    And law enforcement officials are looking into possible ties between the missing Millstone…

  • Letters (06.28.07)

    A shame if school pride causes community to overlook board member’s message To the Editor:     In the recent discussion generated by the comments of School Board member John Gregg it seems there is a crucial point being overlooked. It is true that there are already a number of great things about Lawrence Township Public…

  • LHS graduates celebrate

    Last class to feature Washington students By: Lea Kahn    Guests at Lawrence High School’s graduation ceremony Tuesday night may have thought they were attending a beach party and not an annual rite of passage, based on the half-dozen beach balls the seniors were tossing among themselves.    But the 350-plus members of Lawrence High School’s Class…

  • Millstone 12’s hoping to emerge from pool play

    By: Sean Moylan    Jeff Clark is hoping to have several of his Millstone-Roosevelt 12-year-old Little League All-Star baseball players "pitching in" to make this year’s District 12 baseball tournament a successful one.    "I have some solid pitching. I have five solid starters (Brandon Ruetsch, Pat Clark, Mike Calabrese, Frank O’Brien, Christian Sheehan and Jake Swerdel)…

  • Post 148’s Kubik throws back-to-back no-hitters

    By: Sean Moylan The hottest player in the entire Mercer County American Legion League didn’t even play in Sunday’s MCALL Intra-League All-Star game at Moody Park. That player would be Hightstown Post 148’s own version of Cincinnati Reds great Johnny Vander Meer, Chris Kubik, who is coming off back-to-back no-hitters.    "It’s unreal. It’s a good…