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  • Kidney Stones, Part I: How the Four Types Form within the Body

    You can help yourself tremendously by drinking water… By: Lorraine Seabrook with Alexander P. Vukasin, MD    "You can help yourself tremendously by drinking a lot of water (as much as 12 full glasses a day) to help flush away the substances that form stones." Alexander P. Vukasin, MD, Staff urologist, University Medical Center at Princeton…

  • Fire budgets head to voters

    Voters to decide on commissioners, budgets and referendum for new fire engine. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Monroe Township voters will decide fire commissioner races, approve or reject budgets in three fire districts and will have a referendum on a new fire engine in District 3 at fire elections, Saturday.    The polls will be open…

  • Evelyn Rudenstein

       Evelyn Rudenstein, 86, of Monroe, died Wednesday, Feb. 11, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Newark, she lived in West Orange before moving to Monroe 13 years ago.    Ms. Rudenstein was a member of Women’s Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training and the National Council of Jewish Women and Brandeis.    She…

  • Key Club reaching out to community

    Students raise items for soldiers. By: Joseph Harvie    MONROE — The Monroe Township High School Key Club wants you.    The Key Cub is participating in Kiwanis International’s Governor’s Project called Care for Courage.    The club has placed boxes in each of the district’s schools and is asking students, teachers and community members to donate items…

  • Katzenbach leads efforts to foster Arts Council deal

    Former U.S. Attorney General works to broker compromise with arts group and neighbors over expansion plan. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Future, the nonprofit group seeking holistic and socially just solutions to development issues in and around downtown Princeton, has quietly been working to broker a compromise between the John-Witherspoon neighborhood and The Arts Council of…

  • District eyes spending plan

    Rising enrollment, tuition for MTHS bound students and out of district special education students drive budget. By: Joseph Harvie    JAMESBURG — Rising enrollment and the amount of tuition for students attending Monroe Township High School and out-of-district special education schools will be the driving forces behind this year’s school budget.    The district has begun working…

  • Novo Nordisk gives $50,000 for preserve sign, gate

       PLAINSBORO — A pharmaceutical company has donated $50,000 to pay for the entrance gate and sign at the Plainsboro Preserve Nature & Education Center.    Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Denmark-based company with offices in Plainsboro, recently presented the check to township officials. The money will foot the bill for a main sign and gated entranceway…

  • Town to lobby for bypass funds

    Meeting with governor’s chief of staff aimed at securing future construction of roadway By:Roger Alvarado    Mayor Steven Sireci and Committeeman Tony Gwiazdowksi are expected to pay Trenton a visit today, Thursday, as they lobby one of Gov. James McGreevey’s top aides for transportation funding for construction of the Route 206 Bypass.    According to Mayor Sireci,…

  • NEHS wrestling enters week with stellar 13-3 mark

    By: Kyle Moylan    Going into state wrestling action this past Tuesday night, New Egypt was 13-3 on the year and looking for even more wins.    New Egypt, seeded fourth, was scheduled to wrestle against Middlesex, the fourth seed. The winner of that match went on to face Bound Brook, the top seed, later on Tuesday…