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  • Changes to ‘smart growth’ plan panned

    South Brunswick and Cranbury leaders feel plan take public out of process By:Matthew Kirdahy    Local mayors and regional activist groups oppose new rules that put developer applications filed with the state and proposed for "smart growth" areas on the fast track to approval.    South Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese and Cranbury Mayor Richard Stannard oppose the…

  • Committee challenges ballot question

    Washington Township Committee approves its own question to appear on the November ballot regarding the township’s form of government, stating citizens’ group question may be invalid. By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — Despite Washington First’s apparent victory to secure a November ballot question seeking to change the township’s form of government, the Township Committee last week…

  • Dmytro Fedorciw

    By:    MANVILLE — Dmytro Fedorciw died July 6 at Franklin Care Center, Franklin Township. He was 83.    Born in Ukraine, he immigrated to the U.S. finally settling in Manville, where he had been a resident for over 50 years.    Mr. Fedorciw was a mold maker for Johns-Manville Corporation for over 35 years, retiring in 1984.…

  • Recrossing at Crosswicks Part 2 of 4

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    From Henry Charlton Beck’s 1939 "The Jersey Midlands," the local story of the Underground Railroad route, which began at Enoch Middleton’s station in North Crosswicks and continued on through Allentown and Cranbury to the north.     Crosswicks seems to have had a way of concerning itself with historic events. Although the skirmish at…

  • For the July 15 issue

    Dorothy J. Martin, George Schaum, Albert James Zanca, Margaret Dallas, Truman Wayne Kulessa, Elizabeth L. DiMatteo, Joseph Donald Reed. Dorothy J. Martin    WHITING — Dorothy J. Martin, 73, died July 12 at her home.    She was formerly of Trenton and Crosswicks, and moved to Whiting in 1996.    She had worked as a payroll clerk for…

  • Senior art show is set to begin Friday

    South Brunswick Senior Center to host county-wide event By:Josh Appelbaum    The Middlesex County Senior Art Show will be held this year at the South Brunswick Senior Center and will run Friday to Aug. 11.    The competition will feature 18 professional artists and 88 nonprofessional artists who are 60 or older.    Awards will be given in…

  • Teachers wrongfully failed by ETS

    Lawrence service will offer refunds. By: Lea Kahn    More than 4,000 would-be teachers who mistakenly received failing grades on a test devised by the Educational Testing Service that is used to license educators learned over the weekend that they had passed the test.    Test-takers received failing grades because the essay portion of the test was…

  • Hansen setting sights on Olympic gold

    Lawrence resident to represent U.S. in Athens games By: Jim Green    When he entered college in the fall of 1997, Joe Hansen only had a vague understanding of the sport of rowing. This August, he will be representing the United States as a member of its rowing National Team.    What a difference seven years can…

  • New state cap laws worry local officials

    State law reduces "caps" that regulate how much municipalities and school districts are able to increase their spending over the previous year’s budget. By: Scott Morgan and William Wichert    With the recent enactment of two new laws, the state is looking to tighten spending increases in all municipal and school district budgets to hold down…