• MANVILLE: Council gets an earful after passing new salary guides

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Despite reassurances that setting maximum salaries for borough positions does not affect employees paychecks, several residents at Monday’s Borough Council meeting were upset when an updated salary ordinance was introduced.    The ordinance, the first to be presented since 2005, was drawn up according to state law to set the maximum…

  • MANVILLE: MHS seniors graduate with ‘lofty dreams’

    MANVILLE: MHS seniors graduate with ‘lofty dreams’

    Students celebrate graduation at Manville High School on Friday. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Spending shrinks as taxes rise

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    Several months of negotiations by the Township Council have ended with a 2009 budget that cuts spending by $1.5 million.    The council adopted a $48 million spending plan Tuesday, which is down 3.4 percent from the $49.5 million budget approved last year. The budget, however, increases taxes by 4 cents…

  • Schragger gets response

    Laura Ochalski, Hopewell Borough    I am writing in response to a June 11 letter to the editor — “Sports coverage” — and to support our local newspaper, the Hopewell Valley News.    I disagree with John Schragger that there has been a lack of coverage of local youth sporting events, specifically the HVBSA, in our local…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Caution urged for summer campers

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    As the school year approached the finish line, the South Brunswick School District was reporting an increase in school absenteeism from 1 percent to close to 4 percent due to flu-like symptoms, as of June 17.    With school ending this week, township officials urge parents to take similar precautions when…

  • PRINCETON: Curb work disturbs Southern Way residents

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer   Frustration and unhappiness were the prevailing emotions expressed by residents of Southern Way at Monday’s Princeton Township Committee meeting over the manner in which plans to repave and perhaps construct curbs along their street had been handled.    Citing drainage problems and parking transgressions, residents portrayed their street as a morass…

  • Local trio all contenders in District 12

    First goal for Allentown, Robbinsville, Millstone is to get out of pool play By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Experience is always a plus. And when it comes to experience in the District 12 Little League Tournament, nobody touches the Millstone-Roosevelt 12-year olds.     According to Manager Jim Herzog, Millstone-Roosevelt will return eight players from…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Class of 2009 bids farewell

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    To the familiar refrain of “Pomp and Circumstance,” South Brunswick High School bid farewell to its 48th graduating class Tuesday at Sovereign Bank Arena.    With 687 students receiving their diplomas, the floor of the arena was a sea of black and gold, with jubilant family and friends packing the lower…

  • LAWRENCE: Fitzell hoping elbow is fine

    Pitcher enjoyed Carpenter Cup experience By Rich Fisher, The Packet Group    Kevin Fitzell is frustrated, and no one can blame him.    The Lawrence High School junior started the spring as one of the dominant pitchers in the Colonial Valley Conference.    But he has suddenly become one of the most ineffective hurlers in the Mercer American…

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