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  • Wal-Mart opens in East Windsor

    A new Wal-Mart store opened on May 4 on Hickory Corner Road in East Windsor. By: Marisa Maldonado    EAST WINDSOR — The ceremonies celebrating the opening of the 148,832-square-foot Wal-Mart on Hickory Corner Road ended at about 9 a.m. Wednesday — but the work was just beginning for the employees.    The store’s employees scattered from…

  • Woodland School goes to seedlings

    Students mark Arbor Day by planting 340 trees of all sorts. By: Melissa Hayes    MONROE — Planting 340 seedlings might sound like a big project, but for one fourth-grade class at Woodland School, it was all in a day’s work.    The empty grassy alcove between the original building and addition was transformed into a nursery…

  • Monroe eyes housing fee hike

    Ordinance doubles fee paid by developers. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — Developers would pay twice as much to the township’s affordable housing fund under an ordinance introduced by the Township Council on Monday.    The ordinance doubles the fee paid by developers into the fund from 0.5 percent to 1 percent of the assessed valuation of…

  • LETTERS: Thompson Park must be preserved

    To the editor: The irreplaceable center of Monroe Township is Thompson Park. It is a marvel of serenity — Monroe’s "Central Park."    To campaign for its invasion by a multi-storied senior high school, as town officials have been lead to do, is blind to the future of the community.    As Planning Board member Joe Montanti…

  • Monsters and Wizards face off

    Parents and teachers to duke it out with the Harlem Wizards. By: Elaine Worden    MONROE — The Monroe Monsters will face off against the Harlem Wizards Sunday, May 22, at Monroe Township High School.    The Monsters, comprised of parents and volunteer teachers from Brookside and Barclay Brook schools, will go up against the acrobatic, trick-hoop-style…

  • OBITUARIES: Vilma D. Gobac

    Vilma D. Gobac    Vilma D. "Dee" (Deak) Gobac, 75, of Somerset, died April 30 in the Hospice Care Facility at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New Brunswick, Ms. Gobac lived in Somerset for 50 years. She was employed by the Somerset Board of Education as a classroom aide at Mac Afee…

  • Artist waxes poetic on plywood canvas

    An artist reaches out to his audience with tactile creations. By: Josh Appelbaum    There isn’t anything typical about Drew Griffiths’ art, but perhaps the most unique thing the artist encourages patrons to do is to reach out and touch his work.    "Go ahead and touch it," Mr. Griffiths said Monday, while hanging his exhibit at…

  • For West Windsor candidates, it’s now down to the wire

    Voters to choose Tuesday a mayor and two members of council. By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Voters here will choose Tuesday between facing the future with "openness, integrity, action" or with a "community vision."    Either way, over the next several years, residents will see a new Alexander Road Bridge, improvements to Route 571, and…

  • Student records a Holocaust survivor’s story

    A wrenching experience for both West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School student and an elderly Monroe resident. By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — In 2045, when Jenna Lichtenstein is 57 years old, she will be the closest the world has to a living record of the Holocaust.    That year she will stand before a public audience…