• ROBBINSVILLE: Pond Road students to stage the musical ‘Aida’

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The microphones weren’t working yet, but technical difficulties couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of scores of Pond Road Middle School students simultaneously rehearsing their scenes from the musical “Aida” in different corners of a chaotic high school auditorium Saturday morning.    Princess Amneris (Cindy George) in her wedding dress arranged…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Sale of evening gowns satisfies girls’ style, parents’ economics

    HILLSBOROUGH: Sale of evening gowns satisfies girls’ style, parents’ economics

    Grads’ all-night party will benefit By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    One of the highlights of every girl’s teenage years is her senior prom. Project Graduation is helping to lessen the expense and pressure that comes with the experience by offering evening wear for sale at a reduced price.    The sale will be held at Hillsborough…

  • MANVILLE: Churches celebrate pastor’s installation

    MANVILLE: Churches celebrate pastor’s installation

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Jan. 22 was a big day of celebration for the Rev. Stanislaw Slaby as he was officially installed as the pastor of Sacred Heart and Christ the King churches.    Father Stan, as he is known, came to Manville to replace Father Bogislaw Augustyn (Father Bogie) when he was transferred…

  • Government should help the neediest

    Amedeo D’Adamo Jr., Renate Drive    It is a truism in educational theory that extended vacations most frequently end in the loss of some of what has recently been learned. This results in the need to spend some time in the following semester not just in refreshing student knowledge but in-depth repetition in previously expended teaching…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Longtime teachers will retire

    By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    Two teachers with a combined 70 years of experience in the township will retire effective July 1.    Linda Arnold, a speech teacher at Sunnymeade School, and Carolyn Weber, a math specialist at Sunnymeade, are retiring at the end of the school year.    ”I’m really kind of sad about it because…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Freezing rain adds to woes left by snow

    HILLSBOROUGH: Freezing rain adds to woes left by snow

    Help prevent a disaster by thinking ahead and shoveling out around a buried fire hydrant near your home. The township fire marshal’s office is asking for residents’ help in clearing space around many of the estimated 1,500 hydrants in the township. Volunteer firemen (from left) Jay Spagnuolo, Rob Slovik and Capt. Tom Lachowski of the…

  • Council should spend money responsibly

    Sonja Walter, Robbinsville    As a witness to the goings-on at the Jan. 27 Robbinsville Township Council meeting, I have to ask myself: Who is being served by our elected officials?    When a resident made a plea to the council to table a resolution to install a traffic light, council members did so in order to…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Trial finals postponed to Thursday

    By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    For the second time in three weeks, the Hillsborough High School mock trial team had its try for the gold postponed due to snow.    On Jan. 18, the team had its semifinal match against Somerset County Vocational Technical School, a contest the Raiders eventually won last week, after it was…

  • MANVILLE: Niro’s Auto Body continues despite former owner’s death

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Manville is saddened to have lost one of its most personable businessmen and a long time owner of a local business. Nicholas (Nick) Niro, the former owner of Niro’s Auto body, passed away Jan. 20 at the age of 77.    Over 800 people attended Mr. Niro’s wake at Hagan-Chamberlain…

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