• HILLSBOROUGH: Library board honors Dreves with emeritus member post

    HILLSBOROUGH: Library board honors Dreves with emeritus member post

       At its January meeting, the Hillsborough Public Library Advisory Board elected new officers for 2012 and unanimously appointed an emeritus member, one of only three such appointments in the board’s history.    The board also elected three Hillsborough residents to fill open positions on the 11-person board.    Elected to second terms as president and vice president…

  • LAWRENCE: Professional football had humble beginnings

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    With football mania nearing its peak in time for Sunday’s 46th Super Bowl game — or Super Bowl XLVI, in football-speak — there was a time when professional football and its players were neither respected, prized nor paid millions of dollars.    But it wasn’t so long ago that professional football…

  • MANVILLE: Library Happenings, week of Feb. 2

    Band performs for free on Tuesday    The Gordon James Band, playing jazz, Latin and world beat music, will perform on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 7-8:30 p.m. The concert is free and the public is invited. Light refreshments will be served.    This program is made possible, in part, by funds from the N.J. State Council on…

  • LAWRENCE: Woman surprises burglar in house

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A Brunswick Avenue resident left home for a few minutes on Jan. 20 and returned home to find a burglar in her home, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar.    When the victim returned home around 6 p.m., she noticed a drawer ajar in the dresser. She heard a noise…

  • LAWRENCE: Wassailing the trees at Terhune

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Holding pieces of bread soaked in cider, the two young boys ran over to a gnarled apple tree and hung the bread on a branch.    ”We’re going to make magic,” Sharon Navarro told her 6-year-old son, Ian Navarro, and his friend, Milo Nelson.    That “magic” is encouraging the trees in…

  • LAWRENCE: Filing deadline for school board candidates Feb. 27

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The deadline for filing to seek one of five open seats on the Lawrence Township Board of Education has been set for Feb. 27 at 4 p.m., according to school district officials.    Normally, three school seats would be available but because of a series of resignations, there are five seats…

  • MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Grey’: These wolves are too weird be taken seriously

    By Elise Nakhnikian    The Grey is one of those macho-adventure-gone-terribly- wrong movies that aims to give you a vicarious scare. It wants to shake you out of your over-civilized stupor, awakening you to the need to live life to the fullest and then die like a man, unafraid and unburdened by regret.    It opens…

  • MANVILLE: Spaghetti dinner proceeds boost school’s music work

    MANVILLE: Spaghetti dinner proceeds boost school’s music work

    At Sunday’s spaghetti dinner, Manville Music Organization’s Courtney Carr poses with an appetizing plate with Chris Carr and Paul Ritcher. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • LAWRENCE: Patton chosen for Sigmund Award

       Dr. Stacey Patton, journalist, author and child advocate, has been selected as the recipient of the Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award by Womenspace of Lawrenceville.    She will be honored at the 18th annual Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award event on Wednesday, May 9.    Dr. Patton was chosen for making significant societal contributions to improve lives and forge…

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