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  • A Bridge in Brooklyn

    Mark Violi finds the human story in ‘Roebling.’ By: Matt Smith Roebling: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge, a play by Hamilton Square resident Mark Violi, will get a staged reading at The Villagers Theatre in Somerset Feb. 13.>    One night in 2003, Mark Violi was relaxing on the couch with a History Channel documentary…

  • Tsunami fund-raiser set at Pennington-Ewing club

    Event will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at PEAC’s facility at 1400 Lower Ferry Road in Ewing Township, just south of I-95. By John Tredrea    Appearances by the Phillie Phanatic, Clash of the Trenton Titans hockey team and a benefit basketball game between teams from the Hopewell Township and Ewing Township police…

  • Nunziata Todaro

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Nunziata (Ferrigno) Todaro died Feb. 5 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 82.    Born in Sicily, Italy, she came to the U.S. in 1960 and lived in Irvington and Union before moving to Hillsborough eight years ago.    Mrs. Todaro was a homemaker and worked as a seamstress for a clothing…

  • Join local efforts to help victims of the disastrous tsunami

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred on Dec. 26. "The earthquake generated a tsunami that was among the deadliest disasters in modern history. At a magnitude of 9.0, it was the largest earthquake since the 9.2 magnitude Good Friday Earthquake off Alaska in 1964, and tied…

  • Home Depot eyes fall opening in South Brunswick

    New Home Depot is set to open on Route 1 and anticipates staffing 150 employees. By: Joseph Harvie    About 110 jobs will be available when Home Depot opens its doors in the South Brunswick Square Mall on Route 1 in September, according to corporate officials.    Demolition work began this week on the old Macy’s location…

  • POST FORUM: Should a developer be allowed to build an Eckerd pharmacy and offices at the corner of Finnegans Lane and Route 27?

    POST FORUM Join the debate.    The South Brunswick Post is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of South Brunswick want their…

  • Health and beauty topics of workshop

    Workshop to include an auction to raise money for the South Brunswick Commission on Women’s scholarship fund. By: Melissa Hayes    The South Brunswick Commission on Women is holding a Health and Beauty Workshop and Auction tonight (Thursday) in Dayton to raise money for its scholarship fund.    There will be a panel discussion on health and…

  • For the Feb. 10 issue

    Victoria Cikana, Mary T. Pursley, Jean M. Jones, Howard Bodine Jr., Irene R. Purks, Nelson F. Kibler, Joseph Purnell, Anne M. Foster, Mary Frances Richardson. Victoria Cikana    BORDENTOWN CITY —Victoria Cikana, 88, of Bordentown City died Feb. 5 at Clare Estates. Born in Brooklyn, she had resided in Bordentown for over 25 years.    She was…

  • Slight tax increase could save surplus

    Mansfield Township Commmittee considers 4-cent local-purpose tax rate increase in 2005 budget. By: William Wichert    MANSFIELD — Nearly six months after a 21-cent tax rate hike was passed, township officials are now confronted with the inevitable question: Will there be a tax increase in this year’s budget?    The answer, however, is still undetermined. Chief Financial…