• ROBBINSVILLE: Horses, puppies and mock mayhem at school

    ROBBINSVILLE: Horses, puppies and mock mayhem at school

    Teacher Sanday Overton leads a group of middle school detectives through a mock crime scene. Staff photo by Joanne Degnan

  • AS I SEE IT: College: Succeed without nearly dying

    By Anne Waldron Neumann    Congratulations, you’ve been accepted! Now what? I studied at several universities and taught at others. My advice:    1. Do the homework. But swallow hard and go to class whether you’ve done it or not: you’ll learn more faster than in any other way. And you won’t slide out of the loop…

  • Winning the battle of energy savings

    Winning the battle of energy savings

    This project is also tied to the public power grid so that excess energy can be shared with the public. By JoAnne Castagna In 2004, Master Sgt. Mark Rizzo’s U.S. Army convoy was traveling north on a route in Baghdad, Iraq. “I was in an armored Humvee with a driver, team leader and gunner when…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Olympian is enshrined in artwork

    HILLSBOROUGH: Olympian is enshrined in artwork

    Teenager Zoe Zylowski’s portrait of Joetta Clark Diggs is unveiled for township’s public art gallery By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Four-time Olympic runner Joetta Clark Diggs had her portrait unveiled and welcomed into Hillsborough’s public art collection Friday night.    The painting shows Ms. Clark Diggs posing in front of the Olympic Games rings, track shoes…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Green Village plan could have been better

    Guest commentary By Peter Ruitter, BoroGreen    Vital importance of community involvement may well be the most important outcome of efforts to improve the Green Village proposals that were before Hillsborough’s Planning Board at two public hearings in March.    The future of –the proposed Green Village area really was determined by things that happened some time…

  • MANVILLE: Here’s looking at you!

    MANVILLE: Here’s looking at you!

    Lynette Byrne, of Manville, points to her photo on the enlarged cereal box at the Shop´Rite ceremony Friday. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Centofanti’s always at school functins

    To the editor:    I have been friends with Deena Centofanti for more than four years and recommend her for the Board of Education.    She is caring, compassionate and dedicated to the education of all children. Deena spends a lot of time volunteering at the schools. She might be in one of her sons’ classes doing…

  • LAWRENCE: Council OKs 15 percent sewer fee hike

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    With no comment from the public, Township Council adopted an ordinance Tuesday that raises the sewer fee for the average Lawrence Township household by $85.20 annually.    Township Councilmen David Maffei, Michael Powers and Greg Puliti and Councilwoman Cathleen Lewis voted to approve the ordinance. Mayor James Kownacki, who works for…

  • LAWRENCE: School board approves $67.1 million budget

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township public school district’s proposed $67.1 million operating budget for 2012-13 gained the school board’s stamp of approval after a brief public hearing on the spending plan last week.    The school board’s 6-0 vote to approve the budget clears the way for the spending plan to be sent…

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