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  • Trying to make the new year happy

    The let downs of the New Years celebration and resolutions and where this tradition started. By: Arnold Bornstein    Here we go again! It’s another new year and the common pattern is that we are supposed to be happy, make resolutions, and reflect upon life and the passage of time. Yet the real pattern usually follows…

  • Offering a mourner’s kaddish for 2003

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet: A look back at those we lost in 2003. By: Hank Kalet    New Year’s Day traditionally is a time for reflection on the previous year, on all the things we’ve done or not done, on the way the world around us has changed.    We have witnessed war (in Iraq) and violent…

  • Bernard Donohue

       Bernard Joseph Donohue, 73, died Wednesday, Dec. 24, at Victoria House in Matawan.    Mr. Donohue was born in New York City and had lived in Jackson before moving to Jamesburg seven years ago. Mr. Donohue was an Army veteran of the Korean War.    He is survived by three sons, Robert and Steven Donohue, both of…

  • Faith of the Heart

    George Street Playhouse’s production of ‘Agnes of God,’ a taut murder mystery set in a convent, promises to be an emotional and thought-provoking drama. By: Jim Boyle Suzzanne Douglas (left) plays a doctor investigating the mysterious death of a baby in a convent and questions the implicated nun, played by Maria Dizzio (right), in the…

  • Former borough mayor dies at 83

    Friends and family remember the life of former Hightstown mayor, Jerome "Red" Becker Jr. By: Lauren Burgoon    HIGHTSTOWN — A family man, a humble man and a man with a deep love for his community and country. These are only a few of the characteristics that family and friends say defined Jerome "Red" Becker Jr.…

  • Vet honored for work

    State Senate honors former commander of the state’s Jewish War Veterans. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — A New Jersey Senate resolution recently paid tribute to Clearbrook resident Ben Roth for his work in the community and state during his term as commander of the state Jewish War Veterans.    Mr. Roth said he appreciated the award,…

  • MHS girls’ first loss comes in tourney final

    Cougars fall to host Ridge By: Bob Nuse    BASKING RIDGE — The Montgomery High girls’ basketball team has seen enough good signs in the first five games of the season to realize the can be a pretty good team this year — a loss in the championship game of the Len Sepanak Memorial Tournament at…

  • A lesson in science and in real estate

    Fourth-graders build carboard homes with functioning lights. By: Matthew Kirdahy    For sale signs in the hallways of the Cranbury School on Monday directed fourth-grade parents to some township real estate that won’t mean higher taxes, a larger enrollment or another school expansion.    Fourth-grade teachers Carol Lindenfeld and Donna Tarantino lead their students in a six-week…

  • Petitions available for school board

    March 1 is the deadline for handing in petitions to run in April’s school board election in Monroe. By: Rebecca Tokarz    School board members say it takes a lot of time and a willingness to jump right into the thick of things to serve on the Board of Education.    School Board seats willbe up for…