• MANVILLE: Emergency disaster team given an equipped trailer

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    The new Community Emergency Response Team recently received a brand-new trailer, which was awarded to Manville by the state of New Jersey.    CERT Director Robert Kaminski is pleased with the equipment addition to the volunteer group.    ”We filed reports, we put in for hours, and the state OEM…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Fundraiser set to buy service dog for disabled boy

    ROBBINSVILLE: Fundraiser set to buy service dog for disabled boy

    Public invited to Robbinsville Field House on Sunday (Dec. 18) By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The community can enjoy music, food and fancy footwork Sunday at the Robbinsville Field House and, at the same time, help raise funds to make it a special Christmas for a disabled child.    Pickering Drive residents Eileen Vernon…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Fire marshals honored for CPR teamwork to save man’s life

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Hillsborough Township fire marshals were in their office in the municipal building Nov. 22, organizing their paperwork and preparing to make calls.    Then they heard a call for help coming from the senior citizen’s activity room two doors down the hall, recalled Chief Fire Marshal Chris Weniger.    The four marshals…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Council set to act on election ordinance

    Public hearing and adoption vote on Dec. 22 By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The Township Council has scheduled a public hearing and adoption vote next week on an ordinance that would move the nonpartisan May 2013 municipal election for mayor and council to November of that year.    Proponents, including most of the council,…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter

       A smell of smoke in the vestibule of the DSW Shoe Warehouse store at the Mercer Mall caused the police to evacuate the store for nearly an hour at 2:26 p.m. on Dec. 11 until firefighters could determine its cause. A defective light ballast in the light fixture resulted in the odor. Shoppers were allowed…

  • MANVILLE: GOP tussle for Assembly seat could last until June

    Convention losers could take case to primary election voters By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Next year’s internal Republican Party jostling to fill a state Assembly seat left vacant by the death of seven-term Republican Peter Biondi will be a long-running show, it appears.    About 400 Republican party insiders will decide at a party convention, probably…

  • MANVILLE: Jr. Camp Counselors are thanked

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Jr. Camp Counselors who worked this summer for the camp run by the Manville Recreation and the Manville Alliance were saluted at the Borough Council meeting Monday night.    Mayor Lillian Zuza and Council President Sherri Lynn presented each counselor with a certificate of thanks for helping out at the…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Robots drive campers’ enthusiasm for technology

    ROBBINSVILLE: Robots drive campers’ enthusiasm for technology

       ROBBINSVILLE — They raced, they wrestled, they catapulted objects across the room — and it was all in the name of science.    Dozens of robots built by more than 60 students from Sharon and Pond Road schools had the run of the classroom at Robbinsville High School during Discovery Day camp hosted by members of…

  • Police Beat: Dec. 15 edition

    Police Beat: Dec. 15 edition

    Robbinsville    Robbinsville police have released partial descriptions of the three men wanted in connection with the Dec. 6 shooting and robbery of a 50-year-old man on Union Street.    The victim, a Ringoes resident who worked in the area, told police two men robbed him and one of them shot him as he tried to run…

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