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  • Sports Ilustrated staffer visits Montgomery High School

    Fields questions about life as a writer. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — Some young children dream of becoming professional athletes, but Montgomery resident Tom Verducci decided early on he didn’t want to become one — he wanted to write about them.    Mr. Verducci, a senior baseball writer at Sports Illustrated, spoke to a group of…

  • Falcon girls track team has top-five potential in GMC

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The big question for the Monroe Township High School girls’ track team this spring is, "Can they reclaim the Greater Middlesex Conference White Division championship?"    To accomplish that feat, the Lady Falcons will have to knock off Bishop Ahr during the dual meet schedule. Ahr was the only team to beat…

  • Living to learn: Local teacher, columnist earns doctorate degree

    Lifestyle By: Joan Ruddiman, Ph.D.    "Book Notes" has been a feature in the Packet Publications for longer than a decade. The intent of the column is to share thoughts about books to read and sometimes to consider ideas about reading, schooling, small-town living — in general, the stuff of learning and life. Since the column…

  • Locals seek sewer lines

    Mayor reacts by creating council to look into problem. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Patrick Hye of Mounts Mills Road, who said he brought a petition with 280 signatures asking for sewer-line access to their homes, said he was satisfied with the result of his appearance before the Township Council Monday.    "It was productive. We…

  • Veteran MHS tennis team confident

    By: Joseph Harvie    On a brisk Tuesday afternoon, in a mist coated atmosphere, the Monroe Township High School Falcons boy’s tennis were preparing for Thursday’s season opener, at home against Sayreville.    The team stretched and warmed up as the mist and wind began to pick up at the courts, and coach Jim Kushner used his…

  • WW council backs off effort to cut cent off tax hike

    Much discussion but in the end few changes. By: Shanay Cadette    WEST WINDSOR — A 3-cent hike in the proposed municipal tax rate seemed like a good idea to most of the Township Council last week.    But some members backed off that suggestion Monday.    They discussed at length during last week’s meeting boosting anticipated revenues…

  • PU undergraduates display their inventions

    Entrants compete for share of $4,000 in prizes at research symposium. By: Elyse Graham    Princeton University undergraduates exhibited the work they have been doing over the past year at a research symposium Wednesday.    The symposium, in which entrants competed for a share of $4,000 in prizes, offered visitors a glimpse of changes Princeton students could…

  • Passing Passover traditions to others

    Local rabbis and Jews believe passing traditions of holiday to children is important. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Passover rituals and traditions, handed from generation to generation for thousands of years, will be renewed by area Jewish families in the seven-day observance of the holiday beginning at sundown Monday.    The holiday, which celebrates the Exodus…

  • Joseph Mazza

       Joseph T. Mazza, 80, died Friday, March 25, at the Florida Medical Center, Lauderdale Lakes.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Mazza lived there for 70 years before establishing residences in both Margate Fla., and Greenbriar at Whittingham in Monroe, for the past 10 years. He had a 60-year career in construction, primarily as the owner…