• Architect will review school entrances for improvements

    Millstone K-8 board has security in mind BY MAUREEN SHAMES Correspondent The Millstone Township School District Board of Education has voted 7- 1 to authorize architect James Nichols to develop a plan aimed at tightening up security at two schools. The architect’s initial work is capped at $1,000, according to Business Administrator Bernard S. Biesiada.…

  • Channeling the aid

    As FEMA moves out, local groups step in to help Sandy victims BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer A house in Sea Bright, Monmouth County, was reduced to a pile of debris by superstorm Sandy. Long-term recovery groups are now being set up to work with storm victims in Monmouth and Middlesex counties. ERIC SUCAR staff…

  • MANVILLE: On church’s soup menu: Lentil and tomato basil

       Through March 29, Holy Ghost Church at Roosevelt and 6th Avenue, Manville, will make a variety of soups, pirohi and halushki on Fridays during Lent. This year, the church has added potato pancakes.    The soups for Friday, March 15, are lentil and tomato basil.The church hall will be open from 1-6 p.m. each Friday for…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: March 14

       A Samsung Galaxy cell phone, valued at $549.99, and four cell phone cases, worth a combined $396, were reported stolen from the AT&T Mobility store on Brunswick Pike at 4 p.m. March 5. * * *    Bianca Hart, 22, of Trenton, was charged with shoplifting for taking earrings worth $110 from Lord & Taylor at…

  • MANVILLE: Filet mignon’s on menu for rescue squad fundraiser

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special to the News    Come join the Manville Rescue Squad Auxiliary as it hosts its 11th annual all-you-can-eat filet mignon dinner this Saturday, March 16, at the VFW Hall on Washington Avenue.    Sandy Scrape and the members of the auxiliary have been planning the fundraiser, which has a spring theme, for…

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank Promotes Youth Literacy

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank Promotes Youth Literacy

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank employees (left to right) Rosanne Schwab, Mary Burke, Tessy Gini, Elizabeth Von der Linde and Kathy De Filippis celebrate Read Across America Day with children at the Learning Gate Child Care Center in Bridgewater.

  • MANVILLE: Library Happenings column, week of March 14

    MANVILLE: Library Happenings column, week of March 14

    The show highlights the work of 56 Manville High School students enrolled in Art I, Drawing and Painting, Advanced Drawing and Painting, Art Major, Computer Graphics, and Commercial Design classes.

  • FLORENCE: Marshals nab fugitive in New York
  • LAWRENCE: Mary Tanner a role model for Lawrence

    LAWRENCE: Mary Tanner a role model for Lawrence

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A trailblazer, a role model and a seeker of social justice before it became fashionable — that’s how Mary Tanner’s friends describe her.    Ms. Tanner, who was the first woman elected to Township Council, died March 7 in Maryland, where she had moved in 2004 to be closer to her…

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