• MANVILLE: Six to compete for three school board seats

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Six candidates are vying for the three seats on the Manville Board of Education.    The three board members whose terms are up are President Heidi Alles, Joseph A. Lukac III and Jeanne Lombardino. All three were elected to their first terms in 2008. Both Ms. Alles and Ms. Lombardino…

  • MANVILLE: Students receive honors for their patriotic essays

    MANVILLE: Students receive honors for their patriotic essays

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Three Christ the King School students were honored as local winners for the Veteran’s of Foreign War Patriot’s Pen Essay competition. Allison Charneski of Manville, Matthew Dowling and Andrew Colabella, both of Hillsborough, were recognized by Manville VFW Post 2290 chairman Fred Gorbatuk and Commander Charles Goodyear Feb. 25…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Tip leads to drug arrest

       A 39-year-old man was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine on Feb. 23.    Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said that his office’s Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force received information that an Hispanic male identified as Miguel Ortiz Perez of Brookside Lane, Hillsborough, would have a quantity of cocaine in the area of Farm…

  • LAWRENCE: Trolley tracks run through Lawrence’s past

    By Lea Kahn    Lean over the bridge that crosses the Shabakunk Creek on Route 206 near Notre Dame High School, and you can see the old trolley track abutment for the Trenton Street Railway Co., known as the Old Line.    Up the road apiece on Route 206 near the Lawrenceville-Pennington Road, there is a wide…

  • Players to stage musical of Joseph and Dreamcoat

    By: centraljersey.com "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" will be presented by the Somerset Valley Players at their theater at 689 Amwell Road (Route 514) from March 25 through April 16. The musical tells the classic Biblical story of love and redemption in ancient times. Favored son Joseph, with his coat of many colors, becomes…

  • Foundation to host a town conversation

    By: centraljersey.com The Lawrence Township Community Foundation (LTCF) is hosting its 2011 Community Conversation at The Lawrenceville School on Saturday, March 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Residents of Lawrence Township are invited to attend, along with members of nonprofit organizations serving the township, those who work in town and township business owners. The…

  • Japanese Culture & Business Etiquette

    Japanese Culture & Business Etiquette

    Launching the course is Paula Rossi (left), YWCA Princeton ESL Director, and Michiko Yamashina (right), a Japanese business etiquette specialist and former corporate trainer. To register contact (609) 497-2100 ext. 0 or visit www.ywcaprinceton.org.

  • Archdiocese to close Saint Martin of Tours school

    By: centraljersey.com PHILADELPHIA – The Office of Catholic Education recently announced that seven parishes would close their respective parish schools at the end of the current academic year. The parish schools include Saint Martin of Tours Parish School in New Hope. This school had a projected enrollment of 126 students for the 2011-12 school year,…

  • Jews of New Jersey topic of temple speaker

    By: centraljersey.com On Sunday at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, Michael Aron Rockland, professor of American Studies at Rutgers University and co-author of the book, "The Jews of New Jersey, A Pictorial History." will be the guest speaker at an event sponsored at Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence and sponsored by the Adath Israel Adult…

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