• UPPER FREEHOLD: Municipal budget hearing set

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Township Committee will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday) on its proposed $5 million budget for 2011 that, if approved, would mean an average $8 annual increase in municipal taxes.    The proposed $5,080,500 budget is 2 percent less than last year’s spending plan of $5,184,000. The…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Radioactivity levels demand we monitor Japanese imports

    Iodine levels demand we monitor Japanese imports To the editor,    Cesium-137 and iodine-131 from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have been reported to be in the United States.    Cesium-137 does not naturally occur in the environment; humans produce it from uranium. In high-enough doses, cesium can cause various forms of cancer. Long-term excessive inhalation may…

  • A response to concerns about Freedom Fest

    Carl Lecroix, Freedom Fest State Fair Inc.    I am writing in response to Raymond Canter’s April 7 letter pertaining to the site of this year’s Freedom Fest State Fair Inc. (FFSF), as he indicated several inaccuracies that I feel should be addressed so the public does not have a misperception about this event.    Mr. Canter…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Nine from community take a turn as ‘teacher for a day’

    By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    Nine Hillsborough residents got the experience of a lifetime on March 30 when they took part in the first “Teacher for a Day” program in the district.    The event, sponsored by the Hillsborough Education Association, connected each participant with a teacher from a school in the district. Each pair met…

  • Author Angela McGlynn Looks to Higher Education as Solution for Underserved and Nation as Whole

    Author Angela McGlynn Looks to Higher Education as Solution for Underserved and Nation as Whole

    By Wendy Humphrey West Windsor, N.J. – There is much documented evidence that America is falling behind internationally. According to Angela Provitera McGlynn, of Kendall Park, N.J. (formerly of Princeton), professor emeritus of psychology at Mercer County Community College, the solution lies with higher education. In her new book, Envisioning Equity: Educating and Graduating Low-income,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Technology keeps pace with the times

    School demonstrates what some money in budget item will buy       Most of the discussion on the proposed school budget has focused on the well-struck agreement in which employees assume a greater share of their health-care costs.    Universally, and with good reason, it’s been lauded as a model of cooperation, reasonableness and recognition of the…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Week of April 14

       Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, send a note to Manville News Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542.    All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to: [email protected] before…

  • Basketball Camp

    By Dan Schantz I am excited to announce the dates for this summer’s Dan Schantz Basketball Camp. Formerly known as MMOG Basketball Camp, this camp will once again be held at Christ the King School in Manville (due to the construction at Mary Mother of God in Hillsborough). The camp, in its fifth season, will…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: It’s Playground No. 3 by a landslide

    ROBBINSVILLE: It’s Playground No. 3 by a landslide

    The winning playground proposal shown here features a tree house, double swoosh slide, mushroom steppers, a horizontal ladder, crawl tunnel and talk tubes. (Courtesy of Robbinsville Recreation)

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