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  • Cougar girls suffer rare loss in close game

    Minck, MHS basketball look to rebound tonight By: Justin Feil    There wasn’t anything particularly unusual in the Montgomery High girls’ basketball team’s slow start against Belvidere on Tuesday. The Cougars had done it before so many times that head coach Paul Popadiuk has lost track.    "It’s one thing getting in some close ones," he said.…

  • Squibb to shut facility in Cranbury

    Distribution operation will close by June 30. By: Matt Kirdahy    Bristol-Myers Squibb announced Wednesday that it will be closing its Cranbury distribution facility.    The Cranbury facility, which employs 125 people and is located on Squibb Drive off Prospect Plains Road, will close by June 30 as part of a consolidation of American distribution facilities, according…

  • Legislation to help energy aggregation

    Lower energy costs on table for negotiating By: Al Wicklund    Legislation that would make it easier for municipalities to represent their residents and negotiate for them to get lower gas and electric rates is on Gov. James McGreevey’s desk awaiting his signature.    The bill requires energy companies to notify customers when a municipality is seeking…

  • Township receives grant

    East Windsor’s "Zero Tolerance Means Zero Chances" program will be funded through a state grant. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — The East Windsor Police Department is sending a strong message to local teens who may be tempted to drink alcohol.    "Zero Tolerance Means Zero Chances" is the name of the program aimed at preventing…

  • EDITORIAL: Help to secure Y’s presence in community

    EDITORIAL: The South Brunswick Family YMCA needs your help funding its present and its future.    The South Brunswick Family YMCA needs your help.    The 8-year-old organization, in its second year in its Culver Road headquarters, is experiencing growing pains as it fights to keep up with a growing membership base and pay its expenses.    According…

  • Profaci hopes schedule pays off at GMC wrestling tourney

    By: Ken Weingartner    The Monroe High wrestling team has gradually upgraded its dual match schedule with an eye toward facing better competition in preparation for the year-end tournaments.    This weekend, the Falcons will get an indication of how the plan has worked.    Monroe travels to Piscataway for the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament, a venue that…

  • Helen Genovese

       Helen Genovese, 88, died Friday, Jan. 31, at home.    Born in Newark, she lived in Mountainside for 10 years, Daytona Beach, Fla., for 15 years, and moved to Monroe in 1993. She was very active in her community, Monroe Village.    Her husband, Cosmo, died in 1994 and a son, Anthony, died in 1967. She is…

  • Touch of Gray helps PHS

    Little Tiger junior hopes to come up big at MCC swimming By: Justin Feil    The sprint world is not one in which Kristin Gray fits, or rather she fits too easily.    The Princeton High swimmer resides firmly in the world of distance events.    "I’m short," said PHS junior. "I can’t sprint. Bigger people like (6-foot-7)…

  • Robinson makes call to integrate human rights

    Former U.N. high commissioner for human rights gives talk at university. By: Jeff Milgram    Mary Robinson, the former United Nations high commissioner for human rights, was in Cambodia a while ago when she met a group of 10 girls, all of whom were infected with HIV.    "They would all be dead in five years," she…