• LAWRENCE: School board candidates outline positions

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Seven of the eight candidates for five seats on the Lawrence Township Board of Education may have different approaches and different priorities, but on one issue they are united — the need to manage spending and still provide a quality education for the students.    Incumbent school board members Murali Aiyar,…

  • MANVILLE: There’s a school budget, but no vote on Tuesday

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    When a new state law this spring gave schools the option to skip a vote on the school tax levy, Manville school board members grabbed it.    No surprise, considering the electoral history on school tax votes in the borough. Until last year’s passage, the budget had been defeated for five…

  • Friends of Somsert Regional Animal Surgery

    Friends of Somsert Regional Animal Surgery

    Friends of Somerset Regional Animal Shelter Grab your grass skirt and join us at the Bow Wow Luau on Thurs. June 7, 2012. What: Bow Wow Luau When: Thursday, June 7, 2012 from 6 – 8 pm Where: Basking Ridge Country Club, 185 Madonsville Rd, Basking Ridge, NJ Tickets: Advance tickets are $55 per person…

  • LAWRENCE: A record number of tax appeals are filed

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Nearly 200 property tax appeals, which is a record-setting number for Lawrence Township, have been filed with the Mercer County Board of Taxation or the New Jersey Tax Court, according to Lawrence Township officials.    When the April 2 deadline had passed, 195 tax appeals had been filed, Municipal Manager Richard…

  • MANVILLE: Watershed group organizes stream cleanups

        Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association will hold its sixth annual stream cleanups over the next three weekends.     Volunteers from 11 towns and four counties will don work gloves to help make local rivers and lakes cleaner and healthier.     In 2011, more than 360 volunteers hauled 10,568 pounds of trash from area waterways. Since…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Cleanup day is Sunday in township

        Hillsborough Township will host its third annual cleanup day on Sunday, April 15, from 9 a.m. to noon.     The community-wide cleanup is possible through a state Clean Communities grant.     Volunteers are invited to meet at 9 a.m. at the municipal complex on South Branch Road for road assignments.     Information is available…

  • Groeger, Van Hise for school board

    Deborah Endo, Lawrenceville To the editor: As a former member of the Lawrence Township Board of Education I would like to ask that on April 17 you come out and vote. My tenure on the board enabled me to see the importance of a board that consists of individuals that care about our students and…

  • MANVILLE: For first time, we don’t need to urge you to vote

       What a difference a year makes.    At school budget time in 2011, the Board of Education had to be struggling to produce a budget that could deliver maximum benefits to the students, while being palatable enough to the voters to achieve their approval.    After all, Manville school budgets had been rejected five years in a…

  • MANVILLE: Catholics observe Easter ceremony of blessing of food

    MANVILLE: Catholics observe Easter ceremony of blessing of food

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Sacred Heart Church upheld the Polish tradition by having its annual blessing of the food for the Easter holiday on Saturday.    As a tradition in European countries, the season is a time of pageant and customs. Saturday, which was Holy Saturday in the Catholic Church, the food that…

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