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Candidates Forum, April 9
CANDIDATES FORUM, April 9 By: R. David Pettit Hae-Chang Gea Montgomery Township Board of Education R. David Pettit and Hae-Chang Gea have joined together to create a change for excellence for Montgomery Township schools. As a team, they are committed to creating excellence in educational achievement, excellence in community involvement and excellence in planning…
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Plainsboro patrolman awarded national medal for heroism
Underwater rescue saves two boys strapped in seats of car that rolled into lake. By: Shanay Cadette PLAINSBORO A township patrolman has been awarded a national medal for herorism. Rich Domotor a 20-year veteran of the Plainsboro Police Department who helped save three small boys from a sinking vehicle last summer was…
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SciCore students published in college magazine
Six of Hightstown’s SciCore Academy students will have their writing published in "Aspirations," an art and literary magazine for high school students. By: David Pescatore HIGHTSTOWN With a name like "SciCore," one would expect a school to focus on science and mathematics, but ask this private school’s principal, Arthur Poulos, and he will tell…
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Rockin’ the house
Benefit concert will mark Young Audiences’ 30th year of impact. By: Jillian Kalonick Veteran musicians are used to tough crowds, but among the most difficult might be that unpredictable, often cynical, occasionally unruly group of teenagers that makes up the infamous mid-morning high school assembly. "They’re ready to be bored and hate it, so we…
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Richard Staggard
Richard Staggard, 41, of Jamesburg, died Sunday, March 28, in Monroe. Born on Jan. 8, 1963, in New Brunswick, he lived in Edison before moving to Jamesburg. He was a groundskeeper for the Middlesex County Parks Department for two years. He was a graduate of Edison High School, Class of 1980, and had attended Kean…
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DISPATCHES: A fan’s note on the boys of summer
DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet: Some predictions for the Major League Baseball season. By: Hank Kalet Baseball is back, baby. I know it’s cold and windy outside, weather better suited to the annual Thanksgiving game between North and South Brunswick high schools than a game between the Phillies and Pirates on an early April afternoon in…
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Column: Justin Time
Age-graded results cruel to fast masters By: Justin Feil On a recent run, a friend mentioned how he’d lost out on a little prize money when a race used age-graded results instead of the true finish times. It’s happening to more and more masters runners, but more often to those closer to the 40-year-old mark…
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Reappearing stolen cars puzzle West Windsor police
Five Hondas and Saturns taken from Princeton Junction train station — and then returned. By: Shanay Cadette WEST WINDSOR Steven Rothstein thought he was dreaming. Days after his fiancée’s daughter discovered their Saturn had been stolen from a parking lot at the Princeton Junction train station, it turned up in the very same…
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LETTER: Restaurant asks for support
To the editor: On April 15, we will be heard by the Cranbury Township Planning Board in what we hope to be the final meeting of our site plan application. We are proposing to open an upscale, white tablecloth restaurant five doors down from the spot in which we previously operated our deli from…
