Category: archives
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AHS girls’ lacrosse to build on its success
By: Kyle Moylan As he enters his second season on the job as the coach of the Allentown High School varsity girls’ lacrosse team, Jeff Hanford finds himself in an interesting situation. While the school and most of his girls are new to the sport (its the coach’s second year because that’s as long as…
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Tim Fenton: a township snowplow operator
ON THE JOB IN HOPEWELL VALLEY By John Tredrea Editor’s Note: This is another in the series of portraits of people at work. Just do it. That’s the deal for snowplow operators when a winter storm hits. "You have to open the road and keep it open. You can’t get too far behind the storm,…
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Tubal Eduardo Jr.
MANVILLE Tubal Eduardo Jr., 5, died March 13 in a house fire in Manville, in which his mother, Heather Marchie, and sister, Angelina Eduardo, also perished. He was born in New Brunswick and had lived in Manville. He attended the Weston Avenue School in Manville. Surviving are his father, Tubal Sr.; two brothers, Trevor…
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Annual breakfast salutes longest-serving firefighters
It’s a tradition nearly as old as Manville itself. By: Mary Ellen Zangara A Manville tradition nearly as old as the borough itself the annual Communion breakfast for firemen was held Sunday at Fire Company No. 3. The borough’s Exempt Firemen’s Association 65th annual Communion breakfast began with a special Mass at Christ…
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Kenneth Hale
SOUTH BOUND BROOK Kenneth D. "Kippy" Hale died March 16 at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. He was 53. Born in New Brunswick, he had grown up in Manville and lived in South Bound Brook for 30 years. Mr. Hale had been employed by the Sanitation Department in South Bound Brook for 27 years, and…
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Two Titusville girls escape snowy mishap without injury
Car swooshed off the road, down an embankment and into a branch of Woolsey Creek By John Tredrea Seventeen-year-old Maeve Ryan and the 13-year-old girl who was her passenger must have been counting their blessings late Friday morning. After what could well have been the most adventurous ride either one of them had ever had,…
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Coachable Raiders skated to new heights
Team got hot at right time By: John Beisser In re-capping the 2006-07 Hillsborough High ice hockey season, it’s impossible to mention all of the superlatives and all of the names of the people who made it happen. But rest assured, it did happen. What happened was the Raiders, under the direction of first-year…
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BRHS baseball turns to youth for playoff chase
By: Sean Moylan Eventually, making the playoffs nearly every year will take a little bit of a toll on a sports program. Two years ago the Bordentown High varsity baseball team took a long playoff ride and almost won a Central Jersey championship with Danny Sasso as its ace. And last year, the Scotties played…
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Four charged in gas theft
By: Stephanie Prokop BORDENTOWN CITY The wife and stepchildren of Public Works Supervisor Robert Erickson are among four people who have been charged in connection with the theft of gasoline from city pumps last year, city police announced this week. Mr. Erickson, however, has not been charged or implicated in the case, police said.…
