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  • Blanche Zdeb

    By: MANVILLE — Blanche P. (Wrubel) Zdeb died May 8 in Foothill Acres Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Hillsborough. She was 85.Born in Wanamee, Pa., she lived in Manville most of her life.Mrs. Zdeb retired from Ethicon in Bridgewater, where she was employed for many years. Prior to that, she had worked at J&J in…

  • School collects breakfast food for needy children

    The Cambridge School’s annual cereal drive held last week will benefit the South Brunswick Food Pantry. By: Marisa Maldonado    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and more needy children in South Brunswick will be able to partake, thanks to the efforts of the Cambridge School community.    The school collected 168 boxes…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Bad math equals high prices

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Washington’s proposals to ease the burden of increased gas prices are short-term solutions. By: Hank Kalet    Do the math.    Americans make up about less than 5 percent of the world’s population. We own less than 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. And yet we use about a quarter of…

  • High school may drop class ranking

    Policy to be reviewed at meeting By:Donna Lukiw    The Board of Education on Tuesday will consider ending class ranks at Manville High School.    "A lot of districts aren’t using class rank because colleges aren’t looking at class rank," High School Vice Principal John Grebeck said. "The feedback I get from colleges is that they don’t…

  • Patkar’s back problem dooms Vikes in states

    By: Rich Fisher    There are costly injuries. There are untimely injuries. There are unfortunate injuries.    Rohan Patkar and the South Brunswick High tennis team got to experience all three at once when Patkar came up with a lame back early last week. It meant the senior first singles player, who is enjoying an outstanding season,…

  • Building township ties

    School thanks Doug Schilke or donations to shop classes By:Donna Lukiw    When Doug Schilke, president of Schilke Construction Co. on Valley Road, realized what budget constraints schools were under, he wanted to help out.    Mr. Schilke began donating lumber scraps from his company to the wood shop classes at Hillsborough Middle School and for each…

  • This Week

    Thursday    Book club: Join fellow book lovers for a discussion of James Baldwin’s "Go Tell It To The Mountain," at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Library Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System.    The library is located at 2751 Brunswick Pike.    The protagonist, John Grimes, wants to be a man standing on his own;…

  • Khan makes most of four Mercer races

    Senior’s 400 hurdle run, two gold medals and a silver help the Bulldogs win their third straight Mercer County title. By:Tim Falls    Miriam Khan’s best race at the Mercer County high school track championships might have been the 400 hurdles.    The Hopewell Valley senior finished first in two other events for her first Mercer County…

  • Deadline nears to submit budgets

    Most townships in northern Burlington County have budgets finalized By: Cara Latham    The state deadline for school districts to submit their 2006-07 budgets is Friday, and most of the townships in northern Burlington County have finalized their budgets. Bordentown Regional School District has been able to cut $568,000 from its rejected budget, bringing the overall…