• POLICE BLOTTER-July 1, 2010

    West Amwell     June 19 at 2:57 p.m., police responded to a reported out of control student on a school bus, stopped on Route 29 near the Lambertville line.    Patrolman Todd Pantuso arrested a 16-year-old Trenton male and charged him with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.    He was turned over to a guardian after processing.    June…

  • Community calendar for July 1

       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…

  • Keep the ‘T’ in Titusville

    Mary Alice Devine of Titusville     This month marks the one year anniversary of the formation of the Save the Victory Trail and Jacobs Creek Bridge Coalition, a group that remains steadfast in keeping the T-intersection (at Bear Tavern and Jacobs Creek roads) and rehabilitating the Jacobs Creek bridge in place.    Our position has received…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: For 50 years, swim club a Kendall Park institution

    By Chelsea Radler, Staff Writer    It’s difficult to imagine a more ideal place than the Willows Swim Club for a family to spend a summer day.    While children do underwater handstands and giggle, seasoned swimmers in bathing caps do laps. Others munch snacks in the shade or sprawl on a chaise lounge.    Cries of “Marco!”…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Acting class for teens offered at library

    By John Saccenti, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Sometimes taking to the stage and putting on the show means starting small.    At the West Windsor Branch Library, librarians Carolyn Aversano and Michael Carr will help young actors between the ages of 12 and 18 learn some of the small things needed to take the craft…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: DiGirolamo nixes plea

    Trial set for alleged killer By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    A little more than three years after the murder of Amy Giordano, allegedly in her Hightstown apartment, her former married lover has rejected a plea deal and had his date set for trial.    Rosario DiGirolamo, the Millstone man charged with the 2007 decapitation murder of…

  • Nomad not compliant

    Andrea Glenn of Hopewell     Nomad Pizza is a “good steward?”    Nomad is willing “to work on solutions and make improvements?”    I know I’ve been yelled at twice, by people on my own street and on my own porch — a place I can’t use much anymore due to the smoke issue. I suppose that’s…

  • $6M Award to Support Aging Resource at Coriell Institute

    $6M Award to Support Aging Resource at Coriell Institute

    By Courtney Kronenthal CAMDEN, N.J. — Close on the heels of another major award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Coriell Institute has announced its receipt of a five-year, $6-million NIH contract to manage the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Aging Cell Repository. “Our long-standing expertise in the biobanking arena has been a…

  • New Jersey needs civil service reform

    William G. Dressel, Jr. of NJ League of Municipalities     “We the people” can amend our Constitution — our basic framework of civil rights and self-government — but we cannot rescind a personnel policy decision made decades ago and leave the civil service system.    The voters of a municipality can choose to place their public…

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