• MANVILLE: Real life and death lessons

    MANVILLE: Real life and death lessons

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Students hit with sobering message    Manville High School’s parking lot looked like an accident scene on the afternoon of May 12: Sirens blared, firetrucks and police cars roared into the lot with lights flashing. There, a small car sat smashed and crumpled … with a body lying nearby.    As…

  • The Allstate Foundation Awards Allstate New Jersey Exclusive Agent Steven Lambusta of Lawrenceville With The Agency Hands in the Community Award

    The Allstate Foundation Awards Allstate New Jersey Exclusive Agent Steven Lambusta of Lawrenceville With The Agency Hands in the Community Award

    Allstate New Jersey Exclusive Agent Steven Lambusta of Lawrenceville (center) presents an Agency Hands in the Community grant to Kitara Garner, March of DImes Community Director, (left) and Chris Flodmand, March of Dimes Committee Member, (right).

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Charles Evans Overlook: A retreat at St. Michael’s

    Dedication took place May 13    On May 13, the Charles Evans Overlook at the St. Michael’s Farm Preserve in Hopewell Township was dedicated.    This 340-acre property was permanently protected by D&R Greenway Land Trust on Jan. 19, in collaboration with public and private partners and more than 900 Hopewell area residents and local businesses.    For…

  • MANVILLE: ABIS teacher of the year Putvinski followed dad’s advice

    MANVILLE: ABIS teacher of the year Putvinski followed dad’s advice

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    George Putvinski never envisioned himself as a teacher, but after following his father’s words of wisdom, he became a PE teacher at Alexander Batcho Intermediate School — and this year’s Teacher of the Year at ABIS.    ”For quite a few years I did not know if I wanted to…

  • SUNSHINE LIST

    Municipal, school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION: May 20, 7 p.m., special meeting (board retreat), 425 S. Main St., Pennington.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP OPEN SPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE: May 20, 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL BOROUGH LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: May 20, 7 p.m., Hopewell Railroad Station, Railroad Place.    …

  • LETTERS: Viridian to import toxic soil?

    Barbara Dillon, Cranbury    I am writing to the paper so that the public may be informed about a project that started out as just a developer building warehouses but is now a possible environmental disaster.    There is a nearly 400-acre tract in Cranbury on which Viridian Partners, of Colorado, plans to build warehouses. The company…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Raiders win SCT softball title

    By John Beisser, Special Writer    The Hillsborough High softball team received another terrific outing from junior righthander Brittany Ksiezopolski, a clutch pinch-hit sacrifice fly and some stellar defensive plays in winning the school’s first Somerset County Championship since 2005 with a 1-0 victory over rival Montgomery on Saturday night.    In many ways, this was a…

  • Not sound or safe

    Billie Moore, Hopewell Township     The guest opinion in last week’s paper was an eye-opener regarding the proposed Hopewell Township budget. With no involvement of the previously functioning citizen’s advisory Finance Committee, the current township administration has blithely made assumptions that are not justified (e.g., that revenues will be up this year), and will be…

  • Statistics can seem to serve two purposes

    Allan Mazur, South 11th Avenue    At my age, I have only vague memories of struggling through decimals, fractions and percentages as well as that feeling of mathematical brilliance that comes when the test results arrive with more blue than red ink. I’m sensing that same feeling of pride in mathematical accomplishment when people in favor…

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