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  • Allentown High School student killed in car accident

    Crash also claims life of Jackson man. By: Cynthia Koons    Valerie Marotte, an Allentown High School junior with a flair for fine arts, was killed Monday night when the car she was in was struck by another after leaving a friend’s driveway in Jackson Township at 10:30 p.m.    She was a passenger in a car…

  • Fatal accident occurs on Route 130

    East Windsor woman dies in crash. By: Jamie Simpson    The fifth fatal automobile accident of the year for South Brunswick occurred early Thursday morning. Sonia Prieto, a 45-year-old woman from East Windsor, was killed just after 12 a.m. Thursday morning.    The accident took place at the intersection of Stults Road and Route 130. Ms. Prieto…

  • Kevin Brown

       MANVILLE — Kevin Michael Brown died Monday, May 26, in Phillipsburg. He was 43.    Born in Pennsylvania, he lived in Manville and Flemington before moving to Phillipsburg in 2000.    Mr. Brown was a maintenance mechanic for 23 years, most recently at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg.    He was a graduate of Manville High School…

  • Pennington adopts $1,279,000 budget

    Owner of a property assessed at $229,000 (the borough average) will continue to pay $1,328.20 annually for municipal purposes. By John Tredrea    Pennington’s municipal tax rate for 2003 will be 58 cents per $100 of assessed property value, the same as last year, under a $1,279,408 budget for 2003 adopted by a unanimous vote of…

  • Residents, students at odds over ‘a good night’s sleep’

    Police have been called, but found no problems. By: Lea Kahn    Ask Linda Simmins and Carol Dickson what they want, and they’ll say, "A good night’s sleep."    But sleep doesn’t always come — and not because they are insomniacs. Rather, they claim they cannot get eight straight hours of shut-eye because of their neighbors at…

  • Deeper Well

    Ken Lelen’s vintage music harkens back to an era when the pace was slower, and when music could be heard without distraction. By: Susan Van Dongen    The instruments are old, the songs are even older, but the singer is anything but old-fashioned.    Ken Lelen is certainly not a misty-eyed, free-spirited troubadour when it comes to…

  • Letter: Rule change bad for districts

    To the editor:     A union-backed bill that would reduce the power of school boards to effectively represent the public in labor negotiations is quietly moving through the Legislature. The legislation, A-3419/S-2398, would take away a board’s ability to implement its last best contract offer when negotiations are fully exhausted.    Although implementation is very rare,…

  • Football season could begin again without state ruling

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    It has been nearly a year since local football foes delivered a petition to the state Department of Education’s Division of Controversies and Disputes.    The petition finally was the focus May 27 of a hearing before Judge Joseph F. Martone of the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), to which it was…

  • Stephen Poandl Sr.

          Stephen A. Poandl Sr., 85, of Beaver Dam, Ky., died Saturday, May 31, at Owensboro Mercy Health System.       He was born in Manhattan, N.Y., and was a former resident of Monmouth Junction. He was a supervisor for Columbian Carbon before retiring. He was a member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Beaver Dam. An Army…