Category: archives
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POLICE BLOTTER
By: At 8:30 p.m. on June 4, Robert Ostrowski, of Kennedy Boulevard, was charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing his Ford pickup truck through the front window of Manville Pizza, police said. No one in the store was injured. Mr. Ostrowski was transported to Somerset Medical Center. He was treated, transported to police headquarters,…
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Parents complain they’re being shut out of PTA
The PTA charters in Manville have no requirements about the composition of the boards. By: Eileen Oldfield Disgruntled Alexander Batcho Intermediate School parents took the mike and voiced their concerns about the school’s Parent-Teacher Association at the Board of Education meeting Tuesday. "If the first contact with a parent is a negative one, you are…
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O’Connor’s best shot good for second place
HHS star collects fifth M of C medal By: Rudy Brandl SOUTH PLAINFIELD It was like a heavyweight title fight with two rivals pummeling each other with their best shots. When the battle was over, Hillsborough High senior Taryn O’Connor finished second in the shot put competition at last week’s NJSIAA Meet of Champions…
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Program for special ed and mainstream students honored
Camp HEART received award at Governor’s Conference on Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities By:Audrey Levine It is designed to see past differences among people and, in the one year it has been active, has already earned recognition for its work. Camp HEART (Hillsborough Education and Recreation Together), an inclusive recreation program designed for those with…
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ON POINT
The conundrum that is gift-giving By: Linda McCarthy I never know what to get my husband for Father’s Day. Technically, I shouldn’t even worry about it because he’s not my dad. But knowing my boys, if I don’t cover for them, we’ll be re-wrapping last year’s tie. My husband is one of those annoying people…
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Writer tackles Shakespeare
Noor-Ul-Iman student takes 1st place in Bantam Shakespeare Essay Contest By: Emily Holody Reem Nasr, 18, a senior at the Noor-Ul-Iman school in Monmouth Junction, loves Shakespeare. So, when her English teacher, Fakhruddin Ahmed told her about the Bantam Shakespeare Essay Contest three days before the deadline, she began writing immediately. Reem had to choose…
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McIntyre sets new standard at MOC
Viking senior establishes meet record in triple jump By: Sean Richards It’s one thing to win an event at the prestigious NJSIAA Track & Field Meet of Champions. It’s quite another to win it going away and for the second year in a row, and set a state record in the process. Just call it…
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Sending disease down the river
Father and son team to make 150-mile canoe trip for scleroderma research By: Rebecca Weltmann ALLENTOWN Waterproof bags? Check. Paddles? Check. The guts to make a 150-mile trek on the Delaware River from New York to Lambertville? Check. Lakeview Drive resident Tim Hare and his 24-year-old son, Justin, have been planning their father-son canoe…
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Gypsy Spirit
‘Carmen’ and her lovers bring their passion, jealousy and rage to the stage as part of the Princeton Festival’s ‘Sounds of Spain.’ By: Anthony Stoeckert TIMEOFF/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Don José (Todd Geer), left, and Escamillo (Zeffin Quinn Hollis) duke it out for the love of the gypsy in the Princeton Festival’s Carmen, to be staged at…
