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  • Wal-Mart traffic irks resident

    Planners to continue hearing on Aug. 20 By: Lea Kahn    Traffic experts for a proposed Wal-Mart store on Spruce Street claim that increased traffic generated by the store won’t be a problem, but neither the Lawrence Township Planning Board nor neighborhood residents are convinced of the chain store’s position.    Traffic engineers for the Planning Board…

  • Knitowski, Aichele named MHS top athletes

    Bogdanowicz wins wrestling scholarship By: Mary Ellen Zangara    Manville High School athletes were among some of the recipients at the annual MHS Junior and Senior Scholarship and Awards held last week at the school. Three sports clubs scholarships were presented as well as the Athletes of the Year awards.    The Paul Kolody Wrestling scholarship was…

  • Charter commission rebuffs move to skip further interviews

    Ostergren urges a recommendation to put the mayor-council form of government on the ballot. By: Paul Szaniawski    The Charter Study Commission member George Ostergren tried to slam on the brakes and end further discussion of the group’s study of whether to change Hillsborough’s form of government by calling for an early final decision at the…

  • Rewrite for new spa rules

    Several business owners and part-time therapists say proposal unfairly punishes them. By: Paul Koepp    The Township Council is revamping a proposed ordinance to regulate massage businesses after an outcry from several business owners and part-time therapists who said it unfairly punished them and stigmatized their profession.    The proposal, crafted in response to the recurring problem…

  • Letters to the editor

    Goodbye to old friends To the editor:    It is terribly sad to say goodbye to a friend who you have known for many years, but to say goodbye to two friends within a month is truly disturbing, especially when they were both connected to us for the same cause. Friendships form in the strangest ways…

  • A fond fairwell for Class of ’07

    South Brunswick High School seniors graduated on June 20 By: Michelle McGuinness    While the graduating seniors of South Brunswick High School sat proudly in the center of Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, relatives and friends flooded the stands around them, shouting congratulations and snapping pictures.    The black-and-gold-robed seniors graduated on Wednesday after a ceremony in…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    By: Set high goals and expections To the Editor I have been surprised that it is controversial that great schools have high levels of measurable academic achievement and outstanding programs of co-curricular activities. For suggesting this, I have been called, "an elitist", "a bully", "exclusionary", "demeaning to those who do not aspire to learn Mandarin,"…

  • Knitowski led MHS boys on track, field again

    Team just missed .500 mark By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High boys faced their toughest track and field competition ever in the Skyland Conference this spring. Although the results weren’t always positive, the name of the game in this sport is improvement and the Mustangs achieved that for the most part.    Track and field…

  • Frank P. Dorell III

       HILLSBOROUGH — Frank P. Dorell III died June 14 at home. He was 69.    Born in Newark, he had lived in Somerville before settling in Hillsborough in 1968.    Mr. Dorell retired from Dorell & Sons Locksmiths of Somerville in 1995 and was a member of the Master Locksmith Association of New Jersey.    He served in…