• HILLSBOROUGH: Three members of one family accused of assaulting officers

       Three members of one Hillsborough family were charged with aggravated assault on two police officers following a fracas Monday on Mountain View Road.    Arrested were Kevin Teeple (age 35), George Teeple (67) and Danielle Teeple (30), all of Mountain View Road.    At about 10:57 a.m., Hillsborough Police Cpl. Brian McCarron stopped a Ford pickup truck…

  • ALLENTOWN: Girl Scout spruces up library landscaping

    ALLENTOWN: Girl Scout spruces up library landscaping

       ALLENTOWN — Girl Scout Cadette Holly Barletta, an eighth-grader at Stone Bridge Middle School, earned her Silver Award project last week by completing a landscaping project at the Allentown library.    Holly is a member of Troop 70407 of the Allentown-Robbinsville Girl Scouts. The Silver Award represents the highest achievement at the Cadette level.    Holly enlisted…

  • PLUMSTED: Litter-packin’ llamas help clean up watershed

    PLUMSTED: Litter-packin’ llamas help clean up watershed

    Plumsted Environmental Commissioner Bev Vienckowski and her llama Jim-E at the Colliers Mill Wildlife Management Area. Jim-E helped haul out trash collected by volunteers as part of watershed-wide cleanup on May 9. Photo by Tom Shanahan

  • MANVILLE: Senior Corner column, week of May 17

       The Manville Senior Citizens meet at 12:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at the VFW on Washington Avenue. The club is comprised of people who are residents of Manville, age 60 or older, and age 55, if disabled.    Canned goods or non-perishable food items will continue to be collected before each meeting, as…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Council amends 2012 draft municipal budget

    More money moved into police salary account By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The Township Council amended the proposed 2012 municipal budget last week by cutting $60,000 from the Public Works snow removal account and transferring most of the money to the Police Department whose officers are reportedly close to settling a new contract…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: NYU names Mazza a University Honors Scholar

    HILLSBOROUGH: NYU names Mazza a University Honors Scholar

       New York University has named Jordan P. Mazza of Hillsborough as a University Honors Scholar.    Jordan, a 2008 graduate of Hillsborough High School and son of Janice and Jerry Mazza, earned the distinction by maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.7.    His double major at NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences is broadcast journalism and…

  • BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS: Ace Hardware grand opening after renovations

    By Bradley Koltz    During Hurricane Irene, like many people in Princeton, I had serious flooding issues at my home.    In a good news / bad news scenario, we didn’t lose our power, but in the morning we discovered that rising water in the basement threatened to reach the electric panel and that probably wasn’t going…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Sharbell clashes with town over building permit

    Previously approved condo project cannot move forward By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The zoning board last week narrowly upheld the township zoning officer’s interpretation of a 15-year-old ordinance in a decision that derails Sharbell’s plan to break ground on a new Town Center condominium building.    Sharbell has been denied building permits to begin…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Onderko’s efforts win her applause

    To the editor:    Front page news (“Onderko’s comments draw rebuke” from Hillsborough mayor, May 3) — are you kidding me? Boo hoo! Get over it!    Councilman (Richard) Onderko is being the voice Manville so desperately needs. So he is not an engineer, builder, or million-dollar developer and, since the last time I checked, there were…

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