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  • Family holds annual get-together

    50th annual Byrne reunion draws over 300 family members to Monroe. By: Audrey Levine    MONROE — The sky was a clear blue and the sun was shining, reflecting on the sea of green that was on parade below.    People greeted each other, shaking hands and looking at name tags to verify who they were talking…

  • New …everything: M-Class

    The entire vehicle has been redesigned with the specific goals of providing more room…luxury and refinement By: Richard Russell 2006 Mercedes M-Class    Competitors have come and gone, but the original luxury sport-utility vehicle — the Mercedes-Benz M-Class — has prospered for eight years without major change.    That’s almost unheard of and especially amazing considering how…

  • MHS softball falls in bid for re-III-peat

    South Plainfield ends Cougars’ reign in 10 innings By: Justin Feil    SOUTH PLAINFIELD — The Montgomery High softball team will not repeat as Group III state champions, but the Cougars didn’t give up their reign easily.    MHS had its chances for a second straight upset in the North Jersey, Section 2 Group III state tournament,…

  • Renassaince at Monroe opening new sales center

    Home buyers will appreciate viewing a full range of dramatic architectural appointments and options The Wellington model at Renaissance at Monroe, in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, will host the sales center at this new Centex-built community.t    This weekend, beginning Sunday, June 5, Centex Homes, America’s most admired builder, will give home buyers their first look…

  • Drumthwacket in bloom

    A garden party will celebrate a great garden’s second century. By: Pat Summers    To the poetic question, "What is so rare as a day in June?," this answer might be made: a garden-party open house day in June, one with splendid gardens marking the centennial anniversary of their completion, together with a landmark white mansion…

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  • Teacher in alleged affair

    Police: Man had sex with student. By: Melissa Hayes    MONROE — A Monroe Township High School chemistry teacher was charged May 27 with sexual assault after police received an anonymous tip last month that he was having sex with a 17-year-old student.    Claude Thouret, 26, was charged in Monmouth County with sexual assault that allegedly…

  • For NJ voters, this primary is secondary

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 3 By: Packet Editorial    Tuesday is primary election day in New Jersey, an event that is likely to pass almost unnoticed by approximately 95 percent of the state’s population. The other 5 percent — about 420,000 of New Jersey’s 8.4 million residents — will vote in the Republican primary for governor, the…

  • Storage building blaze probed

    Officials are looking for clues about what started the fire in a storage building at Bakers Nursery on May 27. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — Fire officials, township police and the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office are still trying to determine what caused a fire that severely damaged a storage building at Bakers Nursery on Spotswood-Englishtown…