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  • Brothers taking flight in Navy

    DeBoer family celebrates the graduation of another son from the Naval Academy. By: Melissa Hayes    MONROE — When Brant DeBoer graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in May, he joined the ranks of his brother Derek as an alumni.    Lt. j.g. Derek DeBoer, a Monroe Township High School graduate, graduated from the academy in May…

  • Lexus IS 300: excitement in a luxurious sports package

    Performance is a lynchpin of the IS 300 By: Mike Blake The Lexus IS 300.    Lexus has managed an automotive trifecta. It has created a car that is sporty and luxurious and has kept it at a lower price than one would expect from a Lexus.    The Lexus corporate slogan is: Lexus — the passionate…

  • U-12 Purple wins Ripken district title

    By:    The Monroe Township Baseball Association’s Under-12 Purple All-Stars won their playoff semifinal, 22-1, over North Brunswick Monday night in the Cal Ripken Under-12, District 9 championship tournament.    By virtue of the win, Monroe guaranteed itself a spot in the New Jersey State Tournament, which gets underway this weekend.    But the locals were not content…

  • Music fans hope for clear skies

    Concertgoers hope for rain-free evening at Thompson Park. By: Matt Egan    After two concerts that were hampered by rain, concertgoers at Thompson Park will pray for dry weather tonight (Friday) as they try to enjoy free music for Italian-American Night tonight.    The concert, which features the three-piece Rick Koreyva Band, will be at the gazebo…

  • State aid eases borough tax hike

    Extraordinary aid from the state will reduce Hightstown’s projected tax rate increase by 13 cents. By: Jessica Bowker    HIGHTSTOWN —The borough has been awarded $280,000 in extraordinary aid from the state, reducing the projected municipal tax rate.    This year’s projected tax rate increase will be reduced by 13 cents as a result of the state…

  • Aide pleads guilty to sex crime

    Former care center employee pleads guilty to criminal sexual contact with an 84-year-old former resident. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — A former care worker for the Applegarth Care Center pleaded guilty in Middlesex County state Superior Court on Thursday to aggravated criminal sexual contact with an 84-year-old former resident of the center.    Kenneth Crawford, 41,…

  • Plainsboro Preserve sets July 30 music, art festival

    Classic rock will echo across Lake McCormack. By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — In late July at the Plainsboro Preserve, the second brood of bluebirds and swallows will test their wings for the first time.    Dogbane, milkweed and goldenrod will be in bloom.    Luna moths will flit through the sky.    And on July 30, classic rock…

  • Advisory board picks apart senior-housing plan

    Recommends denial of development on Bunn Drive. By: Rachel Silverman    An application to build 140 age-restricted housing units off Bunn Drive was picked apart by the Site Plan Review Advisory Board of the Princeton Regional Planning Board on Wednesday.    The board eventually recommended denial of the proposal — but that will not stop the plan…

  • ‘The Beat that My Heart Skipped’

    It’s a pleasure to watch a film whose characters are so real, you wonder what they did before the story began. By: Elise Nakhnikian Romain Duris plays a shady real estate agent who rediscovers his love for music in The Beat that My Heart Skipped.    Much has been made of the man-bites-dog fact that The…