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  • Feingold stumps for Menendez

    Wisconsin Democrat urges vote for Senator in upcoming elections By: Joseph Harvie    U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, urged South Brunswick seniors to vote for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in the Nov. 7 election.    Sen. Menendez is running against state Sen. Thomas Kean Jr., a Republican, in New Jersey’s…

  • Anthony Bagienski

       INVERNESS, Fla. — Anthony A. "Tony B" Bagienski died Oct. 10 at the Hospice House in Lecanto, Fla. He was 75.    Born in Plains Township, Pa., he was a life-time resident of Manville prior to moving to Florida in 2000.    Mr. Bagienski worked as a grinder for Taylor Forge Stainless Group before retiring.    He served…

  • Contract talks await report from fact-finder

    By: Stephanie Prokop    CHESTERFIELD — The township Board of Education and the Chesterfield Township Teachers Association failed to reach an agreement on a new salary contract at a Oct. 11 meeting with a state mediator and negotiations will now enter the fact-finding phase.    Salary increases and health care costs are among the issues that caused…

  • David Nagy

       MANVILLE — David A. Nagy died Oct. 11 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 48.    Born in Somerville, he had lived in Manville all his life.    Mr. Nagy had worked for several local home-remodeling companies and more recently did remodeling on his own.    Surviving are his parents, John W. and Rose J. (Warzybuk)…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Club is gone, but spirit lives on

    A fond farewell to CBGB & OMFUG By: Hank Kalet    The passing into history of a famous punk-rock club would seem a cultural irony.    Think about it: Punk rock was the music of the anti-establishment, a music designed specifically to tear down pomp and ceremony, a music that the critic Greil Marcus once said was…

  • Star treatment

    Essay contest winner’s prize is a visit from actress Ashley Judd By: Madeleine Johnson    The library at Crossroads North Middle School isn’t usually buzzing with excitement, but it’s not often that the school is the chosen location for celebrities to talk to students about healthy living habits.    But thanks to a middle school graduate who…

  • Fire shuts Japanese restaurant

    Cause of fire under investigation By: Joseph Harvie    A fire that damaged the Shogun 27 Japanese restaurant on Route 27 Saturday morning has left the establishment closed, police said.    According to police, township Patrol Officers Joseph Marrero and John Sweeney discovered the fire after responding to a burglar alarm at the restaurant at 4:55 a.m.…

  • Helen Stasium

       WOODCLIFF LAKE — Helen (Zack) Stasium, formerly of Manville, died Oct. 5.    Her husband, Henry Stasium, is deceased.    Surviving are a daughter, Phyllis Flood of Woodcliff Lake; two grandchildren; one sister, Anne Zolandz of Manville; and many nieces and nephews.    A funeral liturgy was held Oct. 9 at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in…

  • Time to have fun

    Casey urges her gymnasts to enjoy tonight’s GMC championship at SBHS By: Rich Fisher    There it was on Saturday morning, large as life.    On the cover of the daily paper’s high school sports section was a huge team picture of the Bishop Ahr gymnastics team, accompanied by a centerfold story about the Trojans phenomenal success.…