• MANVILLE: Public bullying’ will deprive borough of a good man, employee

    To the editor:        The communications over the past few months with regard to the fundraising softball tournament in May are quite disheartening. Yes, Mr. Armstrong had a lapse in judgment that he does not deny and that he has taken full responsibility for. It was a mistake that he has made restitution for tenfold.…

  • MANVILLE: Day’s police blotter relives storm phone call by call

    MANVILLE: Day’s police blotter relives storm phone call by call

    As businesses prepared for Hurricane Sandy, this expressed the worst fears that were never realized, thankfully. (Photo by Mary Ellen Day)

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Leaders plot recovery from storm

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Life returned to some semblance of normal this week as Hillsborough and New Jersey recovered from Hurricane Sandy’s wrath.    The township that suffered from storms that brought heavy rain (August) and then snow (October) in 2011, saw the latest storm’s damage caused mostly by ferocious wind. Uprooted, toppled or twisted…

  • MCCC Biology Professor to Discuss State-Threatened Northern Pine Snake in Distinguished Lecture Nov. 20

    MCCC Biology Professor to Discuss State-Threatened Northern Pine Snake in Distinguished Lecture Nov. 20

    By Candace Zafirellis Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Assistant Professor of Biology Ron Smith will speak about the state-threatened northern pine snake in a lecture at the college at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 20 in the Communications Building, room 109.  The talk, “Snake Spacial Ecology: Application for Conservation of the Pine Snake in New Jersey”…

  • MANVILLE: Democrats win and knot council, 3-3

        Democrats captured two Borough Council seats Tuesday to knot control of Manville’s Borough Council next year.     Mark Gregor and Ron Skirkanisch, with 1,622 and 1,606 votes, led the four-way race, defeating Republican incumbent Richard Onderko (1,510 votes) and Susan Horensky-Star (1,379).     They will be sworn to three-year terms at the beginning of…

  • MANVILLE: Sandy can’t scare Halloween away

    MANVILLE: Sandy can’t scare Halloween away

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer      Halloween was on the calendar for Oct. 31 until Hurricane Sandy played a trick on New Jersey     Sandy made the most loved holiday of the year into just a day of cleanup.     Governor Chris Christie rescued the fun and declared Monday was the time for trick…

  • MANVILLE: Day’s police blotter relives storm phone call by call

    MANVILLE: Day’s police blotter relives storm phone call by call

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Hurricane Sandy unfolds virtually minute by minute in the police blotter of Monday, Oct. 29.    High winds broke tree branches or uprooted trees throughout the area. There were multiple calls for trees or branches down between 3:45 and 10:25 p.m. Police and fire were dispatched as necessary.    Among those calls:…

  • Middlesex Water Company Lifts Boil Water Advisory

    By: S. DEFEO Middlesex Water Company Lifts Boil Water Advisory ISELIN, NJ, November 7, 2012  (10:00 a.m.)   The boil water advisory issued Monday night by Middlesex Water Company for its customers in Carteret, Clark, Edison, Highland Park, Metuchen, the Melrose section of Sayreville, South Amboy, South Plainfield, and all sections of Woodbridge has been lifted.  Customers…

  • MANVILLE: Roosevelt School kids farmed out

    No power means they’ll attend classes in other schools in district     Manville schools reopened for all students on Wednesday.     Since the Roosevelt School for grades 4 and 5 is still without power — with no recovery timeline identified by the utility company — faculty, staff and students of the school have been reassigned…

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