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  • Army Corps look at cause of flood

    Officials consider ways to handle future flooding. By: Leon Tovey    While there has been no word from state and federal officials about possible aid for seven southern Middlesex County municipalities affected by the July 17 flash flood, officials have begun to look at circumstances that might have contributed to the flooding and to consider possible…

  • Monroe duo get natural high down under

    Selby, Gorham participate in Australia’s Youth Friendship Games By: Ken Weingartner    For Xavier Selby and Matt Gorham, a trip Down Under will probably rank at the top of their memories when it comes to their youth basketball career.    Selby and Gorham, both from Monroe, were among a select group of athletes chosen to participate in…

  • Art show extended through August

    Art enthusiasts get a chance to revisit multimedia exhibit at the Gourgaud Gallery. By: Josh Appelbaum    Art enthusiasts will have another opportunity to take in "Potpourri," Jennifer Mengedoth’s multimedia exhibit.    For the first time ever, the gallery will extend the run of an exhibit, and Ms. Mengedoth’s show will run at the Gourgaud Gallery until…

  • Street repairs snarl business downtown

    Repaving hurts sales, but store owners still prefer to have it done in August By: Marjorie Censer    As crews repaved Witherspoon Street this week, some business owners and managers said the work was detrimental to their sales and that they were unprepared for the street’s closing. Most agreed, however, that August was the best time…

  • Family gets its backyard back

    Some 6,000 tons of garbage removed from forgotten dump site By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — In October of 2003, the Davis family began excavation for a pool in the backyard of their Kildee Road residence and encountered something quite out of the ordinary below the surface — garbage.    "Horrified" is the first word homeowner Margaret…

  • LETTERS: Columnist hit it on head

    To the editor:     I must commend Hank Kalet on his recent article concerning President George W. Bush’s nomination of Judge John G. Roberts for the momentous position in the Supreme Court of the United States. You delved into the history of our nation and how our Founding Fathers arrived at the manner in which…

  • Woman injured after fall from horse

    Monroe woman falls off horse during jumping competition. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — A 20-year-old Little Silver woman had been upgraded from critical to serious condition Thursday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was taken after falling off a horse during a jumping competition at Congress Hill Farm on Federal…

  • Homewood Suites is homeward bound for Plainsboro

    $19.6 million hotel expected to open in 2007 By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — Within the next four to six weeks, Winston Hotels Inc. is expected to break ground on a Homewood Suites hotel.    The hotel, which will front Route 1 with access from Mapleton Road — next to the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel — is…

  • Journal Reports editor named to Packet board of directors

       Larry Rout, editor of The Wall Street Journal Reports, has been named to The Princeton Packet Inc.’s board of directors.    In addition to editing The Wall Street Journal Reports, a special section that runs about 25 times a year in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Rout oversees the Journal team responsible for Sunday Journal, an…