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  • Wait is over for Marmorek as Jendras has arrived in style

    By: Rich Fisher    Three years ago, the Monroe High tennis team was heading home from practice, when coach Trudy Marmorek noticed a mother and daughter had taken her team’s place on the court.    Marmorek watched for a few minutes and was impressed by the young girl.    "I yelled over to her ‘Hey, do you live…

  • Local Red Cross volunteers head south

    To aid victims of Hurricane Ivan. By: David Campbell    The American Red Cross of Central New Jersey is mobilizing several young adults to administer first aid and disaster relief to families affected by Hurricane Ivan.    Speaking Thursday at the Red Cross’s Central Jersey headquarters off Alexander Road in West Windsor Township, Chief Executive Officer Kevin…

  • LETTER: A few simple questions

    To the editor:    In response to your editorial dated September 10th titles "Desperation in the new millennium" I ask a few simple questions.    1. Who were we occupying on Sept. 11 when we were attacked? Afghanistan? Iraq? How about in 1993 when the towers were attacked the first time? How about when the U.S.S. Cole…

  • Farm funds get OK

    State cuts check for preservation By:Josh Appelbaum    Cranbury residents will be unfurling blankets and breaking out picnic fare while listening to live music Saturday night under the stars in Patti and Matt Long’s orchard on Cranbury Neck Road at the Cranbury Arts Council’s sixth annual Candle Light Concert.    Providing additional light will be torches surrounding…

  • League to hear political analyst David Rebovitch

       The electoral landscape from the vantage point of New Jersey will be the focus of a League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area-sponsored talk on Sept. 29.    David Rebovitch, professor of political science at Rider University, where he also serves as the managing director of the Institute for New Jersey Politics, will be the…

  • Falcons, Vikings tie again

    By: Carolyn Hartko    There’s one dead give-away that a high school athletic contest was a real nail-biter: the coaches of both teams end up with laryngitis. After the varsity field hockey game between South Brunswick and Monroe this past Tuesday that ended in a 1-1 overtime tie, Monroe’s Virginia Gonzalez and South’s Danielle Matlack fit…

  • DISPATCHES: Milosz, a witness to the 20th century

    Dispatches By Hank Kalet: Remembering Polish poet who passed away in August. By: Hank Kalet        Two days after his death a hurricane razed the coasts. Smoke came from volcanoes inactive for a hundred years. Lava sprawled over forests, vineyards, and towns. And war began with a battle on the islands. — Czeslaw Milosz "A…

  • For the Sept. 17 issue

    Thomas Junis, William Whitacre. Thomas Junis    EAST WINDSOR — Thomas Junis, 83, died Saturday in St. Francis Hospital in Trenton.    Born in Bronx, N.Y., he had lived in Jersey City, Point Pleasant, and Brick prior to moving to East Windsor one year ago.    He was employed by Provident Bank and retired in 1994. Prior to…

  • Montgomery gets a new logo for newsletter

    A familiar stone bridge still graces the scene. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — A misunderstanding has led to the creation of a new logo for the township’s newsletter.    Since 2001, the township has been using a copy of Hillsborough artist Wayne Mathisen’s oil painting of the bridge at Opie’s Mill on Dead Tree Run Road…