• MANVILLE: Dog stabbed, resident tells Borough Council

    Police investigating; there are witnesses By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer    In the night of Monday, Feb. 17, a dog was stabbed in the neck on Brooks Boulevard. The family pet needed stitches and is on the mend.    The McGinn family is upset and just wants answers why. They adopted Percy, a retriever, last year…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Schiro’s buzzer-beater lifts St. Joe’s boys

    HILLSBOROUGH: Schiro’s buzzer-beater lifts St. Joe’s boys

    Team advances to playoffs in Catholic youth league    Down by three points and on defense in the final 17 seconds of the game, the St. Joseph’s 4th grade boys’ team pulled out a buzzer-beating victory, 23-22, over St. Bernard’s of Bridgewater on their home floor on Saturday in the final regular game of the season.…

  • MCCC Theatre Students to Present "The Vagina Monologues" March 7 and 8

    MCCC Theatre Students to Present "The Vagina Monologues" March 7 and 8

    By The Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Theatre Program will shine a spotlight on the continuing plague of violence against women during Women’s History Month in March. Theatre and Entertainment Technology students team up to present Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” at MCCC’s Trenton Campus on Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Three bald eagle eggs spied in nest

    HILLSBOROUGH: Three bald eagle eggs spied in nest

    View from the Duke Farms camera, which is trained on a bald eagle’s nest in the preserve.

  • MANVILLE: Faculty vs. student basketball game is Friday night

    Community calendar, week of Feb. 27 Fri., Feb. 28    Basketball game: The annual ABIS student vs. faculty game is back. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. in the Manville High School gym. Sun., March 2    Casino trip: Manville Democratic Club sponsors bus to Showboat Casino, Atlantic City. Bus leaves So. Main Street parking lot (corner of…

  • COUNTY: Man sentenced in murder plot

    COUNTY: Man sentenced in murder plot

    An Ocean County man will spend the next six years in jail after being sentenced for a murder for hire plot. TOMS RIVER — An Ocean County man will spend the next six years in jail after being sentenced for a murder for hire plot.    Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato announced that Philip Florio,…

  • LAWRENCE: Students assembling solar suitcases

    Lauren Schaffer peered intently into the blue plastic suitcase, trying to figure out how to put the wires together and where to snip them, while one of her classmates read from the instruction manual. By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Lauren Schaffer peered intently into the blue plastic suitcase, trying to figure out how to put…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Tubby, Vrabel capture state gymnastic firsts

    Paramount gymnasts shine at state competition    Paramount Compulsory gymnasts compete — and shined — at NJ state competition meets.    Level 3 NJ States were held at Rutgers in New Brunswick on Jan. 18. Stephanie Tubby, competing in the 9-year-old junior age division, placed fourth on vault (9.6), 5th on beam (9.175) and first on bars…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Town gets top bond rating

    Mayor: It’s very good news By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Hopewell Township is one of only 18 municipalities in New Jersey to garner a AAA bond rating — the highest possible — from the Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency, said Anthony Inverso, senior managing director of Phoenix Advisors, a Bordentown firm that gives the…

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