• MANVILLE: Health is key to football season

    Mustangs open against Pingry By John Beisser, Special Writer    Fifth-year head Manville High football coach Brett Stibitz, the high energy 1993 Manville graduate and former Mustang football, wrestling and baseball standout, is excited about the 2009 Mustangs but that excitement carries with it a big if — as in “if we can stay healthy.”    Stibitz,…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: First and 50

    Students start new school year as Constable hits milestone By Davy James, Staff Writer    As the new school year opened on Tuesday, excited young students shuffled off buses and parents walked them to the front doors of Constable School amid the controlled chaos of the first day.    But this wasn’t just an ordinary first day…

  • LETTER: The Cranbury Press is wrong on consolidation

    David Cook, Glenn Johnson, Democrats for Cranbury Township Committee    It appears that in recent weeks, the opinions being expressed in The Cranbury Press editorial pages were that the paper is in favor of merging smaller towns and school districts with larger municipalities and school systems.    The fact that the legislature did not approve a proposal…

  • LETTER: Press columnist was insensitive

    The Black and Thomsson families, Cranbury In a week before 9/11, we wonder why you would publish an “editorial” on plane-flight-disaster possibilities. Maybe you are not thinking about the horrific event that occurred nine years ago, but we have thought about it for weeks. To open The Cranbury Press on Sept. 4 , one week…

  • MANVILLE: Student heads down under as ambassador

    MANVILLE: Student heads down under as ambassador

    Visiting the Australia Zoo was among Cheyanne Bylina’s favorite activities while in Australia, giving her the chance to get closer to such animals as koala bears. Photo courtesy of Cheyanne Bylina

  • MANVILLE: Police increase patrols on railroad

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    While Manville police usually survey the railroad tracks running through town during patrols, the start of school has officers paying extra attention for students who try to cross the tracks on the way to or from school.    Police conducted vehicular patrols of the areas around the railroad tracks in the…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Ex-SBHS teacher appointed to Hunterdon schools post

    By Linda Seida, The Packet Group    A former South Brunswick High School teacher is now South Hunterdon Regional High School’s assistant principal and supervisor of curriculum and instruction.    Mary Robinson Cohen, of Princeton, was hired Sept. 2 at a salary of $90,000 for 11 months. She was chosen from among more than 90 applicants, according…

  • bear on Carter Road, moving toward Montgomery

    By Monty bear on Carter Road, moving toward Montgomery Bear wanders onto Ewing-area roads, prompting 911 calls by The Associated Press Thursday September 10, 2009, 8:44 AM A black bear wandered onto area roads in Ewing and Hopewell, prompting 911 calls and warnings from officials but apparently no risk to residents, a report in The…

  • MANVILLE: Bar’s hearing still on council agenda

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Uncle Davey’s Tavern, on North Main Street, has been closed in recent weeks, but the previously planned Borough Council hearing concerning six alleged liquor law violations is still scheduled to be held Monday.    The council hearing follows a long-delayed municipal court hearing for charges of assault filed against tavern owner…

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