• HILLSBOROUGH: Free-throw shooting contest is Saturday in Manville

        Eagle-eyed basketball players are welcome to try their luck at the local competition for the 41st annual Elks Hoop Shoot, the national free throw shooting contest for youngsters age 8 through 13 (age determined as of April 1, 2013).     The contest will be held in the gym of the Weston Elementary School, 600…

  • LAWRENCE: Rec Department looks at fee hikes

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township Recreation Department provides recreational and leisure activities for township residents, from toddlers to grandparents — but the cost of operating the department is not cheap.    Last week, Steven Groeger, the township’s superintendent of recreation, offered three scenarios to Township Council — ranging from annual 13-percent fee hikes…

  • ROBBINVILLE: "Black Friday Run" fundraiser planned

       ROBBINSVILLE — Instead of only running around the mall on Black Friday, 12-year-old Jared Miller is asking the community to run around the Town Center Lake as well to raise money for the Special Olympics.    Jared, a seventh-grade cross-country runner at Pond Road Middle School, is organizing the Nov. 23 event as part of his…

  • MANVILLE: Community calendar: Week of Nov. 15

    Sat., Nov. 17    Blood drive: American Red Cross drive in memory of Thomas Angeline and Mario DellaFera at Hillsborough Fire Company No. 2, 375 Route 206, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Make appointment at 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to www.redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code 02215959 or call Dawn Welches at 908-281-6260 or email [email protected]. Bring photo ID. Eat…

  • LAWRENCE: Meetings begun on school budget priorities

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Small class sizes and outstanding teachers district-wide, full-year social studies and science courses focusing on world languages at the middle school were some of the proposals batted around by parents at back-to-back budget meetings Tuesday night.    Superintendent of Schools Crystal Edwards and Business Administrator Thomas Eldridge met with parents at…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Construction material worth $2,932 reported stolen

    Township police report, week of Nov. 15     • A Valley Road was burglarized sometime between Oct. 7 and 28 and $100 worth of copper tubing was reported taken.     • Anthony Ha and Matthew Ramandi, both 18 and of Hillsborough, were charged with underage consumption of alcohol during a traffic stop on Lorien Place on Oct.…

  • MANVILLE: Free-throw shooting contest is Saturday in Manville

        Eagle-eyed basketball players are welcome to try their luck at the local competition for the 41st annual Elks Hoop Shoot, the national free throw shooting contest for youngsters age 8 through 13 (age determined as of April 1, 2013).     The contest will be held in the gym of the Weston Elementary School, 600…

  • MILLSTONE: Donations needed for Nov. 17 rummage sale

       MILLSTONE — The Ladies Auxiliary of the Millstone Fire Department is gratefully accepting donations for its annual rummage sale that is scheduled to be held Saturday (Nov. 17) at the firehouse on Stage Coach Road.    Donations may be brought to the firehouse between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 and Friday, Nov. 16. Requested…

  • LAWRENCE: Efforts of JDC during Holocaust outlined

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Jewish tradition says that “he who saves one soul, (it) is as if he saved the entire world” — and while the American Joint Distribution Committee was unable to save millions of European Jews during the Holocaust, it did manage to save hundreds of thousands of them,    Rabbi Jonathan Porath…

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