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  • High turnout rejects school budget

    Proposed $15.3 million spending plan goes down by a vote of 477 to 411. By: Donna Lukiw    Manville voters turned down the school budget Tuesday, defeating the proposed $15.3 million by a vote of 477-411.    The balloting included one of the biggest voter turnouts for a school election in recent memory, with 912 — just…

  • Local teams set for B.C. tennis play

    By: Sean Moylan    Anyone who has followed the Florence Township Memorial High School tennis team the past two years can tell you all about the superior talent and ability of players like Jon Hand, Joe Molimock, Stuart Lopez, Andrew Munger and Eric Centofanti.    But in last Wednesday’s 5-0 win at Willingboro, Florence Coach Ovi Dragos…

  • Fire and Brimstone

    Boheme Opera’s ‘Susannah’ takes a modern-day look at beauty, innocence and fundamentalism. By: Susan Van Dongen    Only in opera could a simple bath stir up such feelings of hatred, leading to rape, murder and disgrace.    That’s how the fictional Susannah Polk, the central figure and namesake of Carlisle Floyd’s opera, gets in trouble. A naive…

  • Bunny surprise

    Terhune Orchards held its annual Bunny Chase on Saturday and Sunday. Jordan Lilly, 5, of Lawrence seemed surprised to find a real rabbit at Terhune Orchards’ annual Bunny Chase on Saturday.

  • League to ‘demystify’ county government

    Session slated for May 4    So what does a freeholder do? Who are the freeholders and where do they meet? And how do their votes directly affect local property taxes?    "Demystifying County Government" — providing the answers to these and other questions residents might have — is the topic of an informal meeting being sponsored…

  • Boundaries of Harmony

    The Westminster Bell Choir will perform light classical music, folk songs and original compositions. By: Susan Van Dongen    Handbell choirs have come a long way since the 17th century, when the instruments were used by church musicians to practice change ringing of the chimes in the bell tower. Since change ringing involved at least one…

  • Long, Nathanson, Parker and Taylor elected

    Voters chose a mix of experienced and new candidates to fill the seats on the Board of Education. By: Marisa Maldonado    Voters elected a mix of experienced and new candidates as they filled four seats on the Board of Education in Tuesday’s school election.    Incumbent Robert F. Long, Barry Nathanson, who served one term before…

  • Darbee’s arm tingles

    Pitcher strikes out 13 in the Cardinals’ sixth win. By: Tim Falls    Mike Darbee deserved congratulations after pitching a shutout victory against Hightstown for the Lawrence varsity baseball team’s sixth straight win.    The senior left-handed pitcher just didn’t want any pats to the shoulder from celebrating teammates.    Prior to the game, a bee stung Darbee…

  • Robert J. Poltarak

       HILLSBOROUGH — Robert J. Poltarak died April 16 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 85.    He was born in New York City, New York, raised in Massachusetts and was a resident of Hillsborough since 1950.    Mr. Polarak was an office manager of the eastern district for the Beckman Coulter Corporation for 35 years…