• Bob Nuse

    By: centraljersey.com Cesar Pereda was looking forward to a challenge in the J. Michael Tucker Tournament at Bordentown. Pereda’s Florence High boys basketball team got a couple of challenges and emerged with a pair of wins to capture the tournament championship. The Flashes topped Haddonfield, 68-57, in the championship game of the tournament as Quintin…

  • MANVILLE: Council members sworn in at annual reorganization

    MANVILLE: Council members sworn in at annual reorganization

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Manville Borough Council held its 82nd annual reorganization meeting on Sunday before a standing-room-only audience in the Manville Municipal Courtroom.    The room was filled with the two new council members and their families, those who were being appointed to positions, residents, firemen and Scout leaders.    Borough Clerk Phil Petrone…

  • Lea Kahn

    By: centraljersey.com A pair of applications submitted by Liberty Towers LLC to build two cell towers – on opposite sides of Lawrence Township – will be heard by the township Planning Board after the board swears in two members at its annual reorganization meeting Monday. The Planning Board is expected to swear in the two…

  • MANVILLE: Mayor names two as citizens of 2010

    MANVILLE: Mayor names two as citizens of 2010

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Two Manville residents who keep giving back to the community were named co-citizens of the year for 2010. Both have devoted many years of service and were recognized at the Borough Council’s annual reorganization meeting Sunday afternoon.    Scoutmaster of Troop 193 James Kelly and Cubmaster of Pack 193 Bruce…

  • MANVILLE: Reisinger gets sheriff’s award

       SOMERVILLE – Somerset County Sheriff Frank J. Provenzano held his annual awards ceremony Dec. 28 to recognize a number of his officers as well as two civilian employees for outstanding performance during the past year.    Deputy Attorney General Philip Aronow presented Sheriff Provenzano and participating officers with a plaque and letter of commendation from state…

  • REPORTER’SNOTEBOOK: Special gift for the holidays

    REPORTER’SNOTEBOOK: Special gift for the holidays

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    I have done stories about the Locks of Love donations over the years and the last one I did was in October 2010 when Alexander Batcho Intermediate School teacher Robin Carver was donating her hair and was looking for girls to join her.    Originally I was going to do…

  • Smith-Casey

    By: centraljersey.com Rebecca Ann Smith, daughter of Frank and Joan Smith of West Amwell Township, and Thomas Charles Casey, son of Charles and Joan Casey of Horsham, Pa., were married on July 31 at St. John the Evangelist Church in Lambertville. Deacon Michael Semko officiated. Music was provided by Sue Kim on organ and Nick…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Making a difference: Local woman finds reward in AmeriCorps projects

    ROBBINSVILLE: Making a difference: Local woman finds reward in AmeriCorps projects

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — After a month of salvaging doors, window sashes and other materials from abandoned buildings in post-Katrina New Orleans, 22-year-old Andrea Magnolo is ready to put her mad hammer skills to use in Hidalgo County, Texas, where people’s lives have been upended by a different hurricane.    Ms. Magnolo, a…

  • MANVILLE: Cyclists make run to greet new year

    MANVILLE: Cyclists make run to greet new year

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    The Manville–Hillsborough Elks Motorcycle Club held its third annual New Year’s Day Hangover Ride Saturday with 65 bikers participating. The ride has been a tradition to raise funds for the Army of Hope.    Mark Nipps, president of the Manville-Hillsborough Elks Motorcycle Club, said they continue to do the Hangover…

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