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  • Unfinished business: school election Tuesday

    Voters will decide whether to approve the proposed $16 million school budget and will fill four seats on the Board of Education. By: John Patten    Manville voters will finally have a chance to go to the polls to vote on the proposed $16 million school budget and fill four seats on the Board of Education…

  • Letters to the Editor

    Thank you to voters To the editor:    I would like to thank the voters for supporting the budget and for supporting me in my re-election to the Board of Education for a fifth term. I will continue my commitment to education and the residents of South Brunswick.    It is an honor and a privilege to…

  • Clarence Martin Jr.

       HILLSBOROUGH — Clarence Lorenzo Martin Jr. died April 20. He was 73.    Born in Egg Harbor Township, he was raised in Pleasantville where he attended schools. He was a longtime resident of Hillsborough.    Mr. Martin taught English for 20 years in Park Junior High School in Scotch Plains. He then became a guidance counselor in…

  • Fireman draws heat for sale

    By: Stephanie Prokop    FLORENCE — A former volunteer firefighter accused of taking two fire helmets that belonged to the Florence Fire Department and selling them on eBay pleaded guilty to a municipal public nuisance charge last week.    Joseph Naprawa, 28, of East Fourth Street, was originally charged with theft, but the charge was downgraded to…

  • Police Beat

    BORDENTOWN CITY    On April 18, at 7 p.m., police said money and jewelry was taken from an unlocked vehicle parked on Farnsworth Avenue. The money and jewelry is valued at about $100. * * *    On April 10, at 9:06 a.m., the employees of Marcello’s Restaurant on Farnsworth Avenue discovered that the front door of…

  • Walking

    NEHS students protest failed ballot questions By: Cara Latham    PLUMSTED — Out of 540 students enrolled at New Egypt High School, any student who showed up for classes Friday also walked out of the building onto the football field at 1 p.m.    The entire study body gathered to protest the community’s defeat of the school…

  • Track athletes perform at Raider Relays

    RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl    Hillsborough High’s track and field athletes put on another good show, this time at their home facility, in Saturday’s Raider Relays. Three HHS relay groups from each gender captured titles in the annual event, which does not award a team title.    The HHS boys set two school records at the…

  • Mary Drassler

       MANVILLE — Mary (Nagoda) Drassler died April 20 at home. She was 91.    Born in Browndale, Pa., she had resided in Kearny before settling in Manville 45 years ago.    Mrs. Drassler was a homemaker.    She was a communicant of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Manville and belonged to its Rosarian Society.    Her husband,…

  • Lt. Col. Francis S. Strzelec

       HILLSBOROUGH — Lt. Col. Francis S. Strzelec died April 13 at Fort Meade, Md., while on active duty for the U.S. Army. He was 57.    He was born in Perth Amboy.    Lt. Col. Strzelec was mobilized in July 2005 with Task Force Edison, 1st Brigade, 78th Division, at Fort Dix in support of Operation Enduring…