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  • Manville High Winter Sports Awards

    Boys, Manderski finished strong By: Rudy Brandl    We might still get more snow and sleet, but the winter athletic season has long been over at Manville High. The month of March will conclude without a single official athletic event involving any MHS athletes or teams.    When senior heavyweight wrestler Mark Manderski was pinned in the…

  • Redbird baseball preps to make run at playoffs

    By: Kyle Moylan    The Allentown High School baseball team took a "Nice" first step during the 2006 season. Now the Allentown coaches and players want to finish the job.    "We took a jump forward last season, but we were still a game or two away from making the state playoffs," noted Allentown Coach Brian Nice,…

  • Budget Season 2007

    BRSD expects some tax relief By: Cara Latham    The tentative spending plan released by Bordentown Regional School District this week could include a tax decrease in Bordentown City and Bordentown Township, and an increase in Fieldsboro, said Superintendent John Polomano this week.    Mr. Polomano said Tuesday that budget figures and tax rates would not be…

  • Obituaries

    Week of March 22 Frank E. Nagren    CHESTERFIELD — Frank E. Nagren, 80, died Sunday at his home.    He was born in Hamilton Township and had resided all of his life in this area.    He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and had retired from the Mercer County Bridge Department. He was…

  • District grapples with state’s strings on additional aid

    The school district received a $377,000 increase in state aid, but $193,000 of that must be spent on academic programs for economically disadvantaged students. By: Donna Lukiw    The Manville School District’s increase in state aid is coming with some strings attached, which means the extra aid isn’t going to benefit taxpayers as much as district…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Carlos R. Flores-Avila, 29, of Bethlehem, Pa., was charged with theft at 4:50 p.m. March 12 while at Adesa Auto Auctions on North Main Street, where he was employed.    Police said Adesa security reported that Mr. Flores-Avila allegedly stole 74 remote keys for cars on the lot, valued at $2,960.    He was processed and…

  • Roy G. Biv Pays a Call

    Jeanne Calo, Betty Curtiss, Graziella Valenti Smith and Marie Sturken do it up in reds, blues, yellows and all the colors in between at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College. By: Megan Sullivan    After her children were grown and her husband had died, Graziella Valenti Smith decided she didn’t want to be a couch…

  • Public look, private struggle

    Story of teen’s battle with anorexia to air on TLC Sunday evening By: Rebecca Weltmann    WASHINGTON — At 14, Marisa Meiskin looked like an average teenager. She played lacrosse and was involved in theater. She loved to study, exercise and be with her friends and family. She was even a straight-A student.    Then at 15,…

  • ‘White Trash’ Reunion

    Johnny and Edgar Winter come together on stage for the first time in a decade. By: Susan Van Dongen    How have musicians like Johnny and Edgar Winter stayed in the business and on the road, putting on killer live concerts for 40 years now?    Easy, say the brothers, known as seminal white Southern bluesmen.    "I’ve…