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  • Boy Scouts set another wrestling benefit card

    Friday night event helps support Scouts projects By:Charlie Olsen    National Wrestling Superstars (NWS) will be returning to Manville on Friday night to stage a knockdown drag-out fundraiser to benefit Boy and Cub Scout Troop 193.    The fundraiser will begin at 7:45 p.m. at the VFW hall at 600 Washington Ave. and will feature World Wrestling…

  • Nurturing Talents

    The 13th annual New Hope Arts & Crafts Festival will offer an opportunity for student artists to showcase their works. By: Jessica Loughery    Local artists and artisans take heed — the 13th annual New Hope Arts & Crafts Festival promises to bring new blood to the field with the introduction of a Young Artists section.…

  • Efforts to form Valley busing task force under way

    Township officials pull busing question from November ballot By John Tredrea    Action to remove a nonbinding referendum from the November general election ballot was OK’d 3-0 by the Hopewell Township Committee Sept. 20.    The question, which must be taken from the ballot by Mercer County election officials, would have asked if voters wanted to pay…

  • Suraci and Wagner earned another term

    To the editor By:    I want to congratulate Mayor Carl Suraci, Bob Wagner, and the rest of the Township Committee for a great success in partnering with Somerset County to acquire the vast Belle Mead GSA Depot.    The financial wisdom represented by the acquisition is overwhelming.    The purchase price was split with the county, and…

  • Students putting their best feet forward

    Students help raise money for diabetes research By: Joseph Harvie    Two township school children are asking residents to help find a cure for juvenile diabetes.    Ryan Moran, 8, and Lauren Wells, 15, both have Type 1 diabetes, and both are looking for donations to help their respective teams that will be taking part in the…

  • Pirate Day

    A Hopewell kindergarten experience On Monday, kindergarten children at Hopewell Elementary became pirates for the day and toured the school looking for hidden treasure. In the photo, Chase Pratt looks through his telescope to see what lies ahead. The purpose of the day is to familiarize kindergartners with their new surroundings.

  • Young Poets Society

    Cotsen Library kicks off a poetry appreciation group for kids with the Mayhem Poets. By: Kristin Boyd    Long before Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequel struck box-office gold, Ian Segal was writing his first poem about scheming bandits plundering the open sea.    Mr. Segal, then a fourth-grader in Los Angeles, used his words like…

  • McGavisk makes huge return to gridiron

    ATHLETE OF THE WEEK By: Rudy Brandl    SOMERSET — Pete McGavisk is back.    The senior running back returned to the gridiron in a big way for the Hillsborough High football team in Sunday afternoon’s game at Franklin. McGavisk missed the first two games of the 2006 season and is still hampered by a sports hernia,…

  • MHS harriers survive uphill battle

    Teams look ahead to lighter terrain By: Rudy Brandl    Manville High’s cross country runners received their first tough test on some rigorous terrain in last week’s quad-meet at North Warren.    Running on a hilly and challenging layout that some have described as three times as difficult as the state championship course at Holmdel Park, the…