• MANVILLE: Puppets teach students environmental message

    MANVILLE: Puppets teach students environmental message

    Puppeteer Mariah Newborne gets help from Sofiya Pitula (left) and Alexandra Nowak while presenting an environ´mental education show at Christ the King School.

  • New Brunswick Jazz Project Closes Jazz Appreciation Month with Dave Stryker & The Stryker/Slagle Band

    New Brunswick Jazz Project Closes Jazz Appreciation Month with Dave Stryker & The Stryker/Slagle Band

    By Virginia DeBerry DAVE STRYKER & THE STRYKER/SLAGLE BAND SATURDAY APRIL 30, 8PM-12AM TUMULTY’S PUB 361 GEORGE STREET, NEW BRUNSWICK $5.00 Cover Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 20 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany, you know…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Reinhardt’s garden blooms spring to fall

    By Susan Cusumano, Neshanic Garden Club member    When we see a patch of medium-stemmed yellow flowers growing during spring, (no, not dandelions) most of us enjoy their beauty and give little thought to their given names.    These particular flowers are called daffodils or narcissus but Neshanic Garden Club’s President Diana Reinhardt enjoys them all, whatever…

  • REGISTER-NEWS: Voters approve budgets in New Hanover, North Hanover and Springfield

    School district election results Results from school district elections on Wednesay, April 27. For more details, see next week’s issue of the Register-News: Bordentown Regional High School (3 seats)        Budget: YES-989, NO-1,283          Bordentown City (1 seat)          ânºLisa Hartmann – 264          Michael MacEwan – 178          Fieldsboro (1 seat)          ânºMona Goff –…

  • JAMESBURG: Voters approve school budget

       JAMESBURG — Voters by 230-179 approved the proposed school budget of $12,437,264, which is 3.9 percent more than last year’s budget of $11,969,499.    The school tax rate will remain flat at $2.930 per $100 of assessed valuation. The owner of a house assessed at the borough average of $124,190 will pay $3,638 in school taxes…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police, Township Committee at odds over budget

    Leaders would cut $250,000 — perhaps by laying off four officers — to stay under tax-levy cap By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    Police officers, some uniformed and some in casual attire, from throughout the state packed during Tuesday’s Township Committee meeting to protest the potential layoffs of four township officers.    Hillsborough fire and rescue personnel…

  • MANVILLE: Owners combining styles at new Millstone Grille

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Manville’s new restaurant the Millstone Grille on North Main Street is another place to enjoy some dining at reasonable prices. The Millstone Grille opened a few months ago and is getting the diners coming in.    Sam Abolata and his business partner, Frank Cotroneo, are the owners and are combining…

  • STOCKTON: Voters defeat school budget

       STOCKTON — Voters on Wednesday defeated the proposed Stockton School budget, 63-52.    The $649,709 tax levy would have resulted in a school tax increase of about $25 for the average property owner.    No one filed to run for David Pasicznyk’s school board seat, but Mr. Pasicznyk received 13 write-in votes, enough to return him to…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: South Hunterdon Regional High School budget goes down; voters OK regionalization feasibility study

       Voters on Wednesday defeated the proposed South Hunterdon Regional High School budget, 734-598.    A referendum asking voters to approve spending up to $50,000 for a feasibility study of regionalizing the high school and its three sending schools into one K-12 district was approved, 726-615.

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