• MANVILLE: Scouts’ court notes their achievements

    MANVILLE: Scouts’ court notes their achievements

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Manville Boy Scout Troop 193 held a Court of Honor recently presenting Scouts with ranks and badges earned during summer camp. The boys attended Sabbattis Scout Camp in New York in July.    ”You have gone to a summer camp that most Scouts never go to,” Scoutmaster Jim Kelly said.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Young thespian taking on Mercer County stage

       Tommy Kouten, of Hillsborough, will appear at Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre in “Hollywood Arms,” based on the life of screen and television legend Carol Burnett.    ”Hollywood Arms” was written by Ms. Burnett and her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, based on Ms. Burnett’s best-selling memoir, “One More Time.” Set in California in 1941 and 1951,…

  • MANVILLE: Newest restaurant gaining customers

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    There’s one difference between running a pizzeria and cooking for school functions, say Uncle Ted’s Pizzeria owners Dayna and Ted Camacho.    ”It’s just using a bigger pot (at the pizzeria), that’s all,” Ms. Camacho, who cooks for many of Roosevelt School functions, said.    The Lincoln Avenue family opened a new…

  • MANVILLE: All pets welcome to join church’s blessing event

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Cats and dogs may be the most popular pets brought to the annual pet blessing ceremony at Sacred Heart Church and Christ the King Church.    But the event — which celebrates the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi — also draws its share of guinea pigs, birds, snakes, lizards, goldfish,…

  • MONROE: History books come to life

    MONROE: History books come to life

    Staff photo by John Keating The Drum Corps of the 7th N.J. Band — Logan Micklon, Steve Zilinski and Tommy Micklon.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter

       David Murdock, 43, of Somerville, was charged with driving while his license is suspended, hindering apprehension and driving with an obstructed windshield at 1:20 p.m. Sept. 18, after police stopped the vehicle he was driving on Route 206 near Old Camplain Road because of air fresheners hanging below the vehicle’s rear-view mirror.    After being stopped,…

  • Hillsborough Hurricanes ‘Black’ Swim Team

    Hillsborough Hurricanes ‘Black’ Swim Team

    By Donna Dass Somerset Valley YMCA’s Hillsborough Hurricanes “black” summer swim team is approaching the end of the regular season and the beginning of championships undefeated with a dual meet record of 9-0. The team will swim its final dual meet this Wednesday night against Metuchen.   In addition, fourteen individual records and five relay records have…

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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Teacher Ronit Bivas tapped to head Temple Beth-El’s education program

       Ronit Bivas has been named the director of early childhood education at the Alef Beit Sefer Early Childhood Center at Temple Beth-El in Hillsborough.    She has been teaching at the center for four years. Ms. Bivas, who has a bachelor’s in psychology from Brooklyn College, brings to the job her love of Judaism, children and…

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