Category: archives
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Monroe girls track team runs to 5-0 with win over Perth Amboy
By: Carolyn M. Hartko It isn’t often that a coach will tell his athletes to do just enough to get by, but that was the strategy for the Monroe Township High School girls’ track team this past Monday. The less-than-all-out effort proved to be quite enough as the Lady Falcons flew past Perth Amboy 90-32,…
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Cosmic Mysteries
Michael Lemonick’s new book tells the story, with surprising revelations, of how the universe was formed. By: Daniel Shearer TimeOFF/Frank Wojciechowski Princeton resident Michael Lemonick explains the findings of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe in his book, Echo of the Big Bang. Hovering in the cold of deep space a million miles from Earth, a…
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Eugene D. Baum
Eugene D. Baum, 52, died Monday, April 28, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born in East Orange, he resided in Monroe for the past 23 years. He retired as an electrician. He was a member of the Free & Accepted Masons South River-Philo Lodge and past commander of American Legion Post…
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Rain won’t stop Arbor Day celebration again
West Windsor event set for Saturday, May 10. By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR After rain last Saturday canceled the township’s Arbor Day celebration, municipal officials are keeping their fingers crossed for sunny weather next week. The Arbor Day celebration has been rescheduled for May 10 and will run from 10 to 11 a.m. in…
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A new humanitarian effort: Save the Adults
GUEST OPINION, May 2 By: Anne Waldron Neumann If I were President Bush, I think I’d be having a terrible anxiety dream about now: I’m leader of the world’s greatest country, and I’ve suddenly been given total responsibility for the prosperity and safety of a second country let us call it Iraq. I have…
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For the May 2 issue
Idella May Mullins, Martin W. Schmidt, Carmen Rios, Edmond J. Green, Madeline Mark Wogan, William Kramberg, August Wiener. By: Idella May Mullins HAMILTON Idella May Mullins died April 28 at her residence. Born in Hightstown, Mrs. Mullins resided in Hamilton Township for 41 years. Mrs. Mullins worked at A.M. Karagheusian Rug Co. in Freehold,…
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Applegarth playing ball
New baseball team finally up and running. By: Al Wicklund MONROE What started in February with a group of Applegarth Middle School students asking the Board of Education for a baseball team became a March 12 approval by the board and an Applegarth team on the field this week. "We lost our opener to…
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Bobbie Schreck
Bobbie Schreck, 67, of Monroe, died Thursday, April 24, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick. She was born in Montclair and resided in Union and North Brunswick for many years before moving to Monroe three years ago. She was a former member of the North Brunswick Chapter of Deborah and the Monroe Township…
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Hungry Hut
Authentic Indian cuisine with savory spices, chutneys, puffy breads and a wide range of vegetarian dinners, fish dishes and stews are sure to satisfy at the modest prices in this Franklin Park restaurant. By: Pat Tanner Hungry Hut Franklin Town Center 3991 Route 27 Franklin Park (732) 422-1163 Food: Very good Service: Helpful and efficient…
