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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Nurse one of 10 nominated as year’s Amazing Nurse

    School nurse Yhap-Zebro has shot at Johnson & Johnson honor   Genevieve Yhap-Zebro is one of 10 finalists in the Johnson & Johnson nationwide search for the “Amazing Nurse” of 2013.    Ms. Yhap-Zebro, a Hillsborough resident employed at the pre-K-to-8th grade Sacred Heart School in South Amboy, was selected by a panel of judges who…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Ride benefits resident who had heart transplant

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Ride benefits resident who had heart transplant

    Chris Molnar had stroke while on leave from Marines By Azra Baig, Special Writer    The Skull Riders held a motorcycle ride Saturday to benefit Chris Molnar, a township resident, who underwent a heart transplant April 9.    Mr. Molnar is a 2012 South Brunswick High School graduate who enlisted in the Marines shortly thereafter.    He graduated…

  • REGION: Take precautions when it’s hot outside

    REGION: Take precautions when it’s hot outside

    Amrah Khan, 5, of South Brunswick, cools off during a hot afternoon while trying to shoot water at people at the Monroe Township Veterans Park Spray Ground on Avenue K.

  • REGION: Residents stay cool despite heat wave

    REGION: Residents stay cool despite heat wave

    They even had fun doing it By Amy Batista, Special Writer    Residents around the area are finding ways to stay cool and even have fun doing it during the heat wave this week.    The Monroe Township Police Department had no heat-related calls, according to Lt. Marc Jimenez in an email Wednesday.    Lt. Jimenez advised residents…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Muslim Center denied locating in shopping center

    Four of seven "yes" votes aren’t enough for variance approval By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Even with four of seven votes for approval, representatives of the Muslim Center of Somerset County were denied planning approval Wednesday, July 24, to locate a house of worship in a strip shopping center off Route 206.    The center proposed…

  • HUNTERDON: Horizon BCBSNJ and Hunterdon Healthcare launch organization to ‘improve care for over 18,000 patients’

    Nineteen Hunterdon Healthcare Partners doctors’ offices will be part of the Patient-Centered ACO    Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Hunterdon Healthcare Partners have announced the launch of a Patient-Centered Accountable Care Organization that will benefit more than 18,000 Horizon BCBSNJ members in Hunterdon, Somerset and Mercer counties.    Nineteen Hunterdon Healthcare Partners doctors’…

  • TRENTON: SB-MWA urges Legislature to let voters decide on open space funding

    Coalition asks Senate and Assembly leadership to move revised legislation forward    TRENTON — On July 18, the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association (SB-MWA) urged the New Jersey Legislature to let voters decide on creating a sustainable source of funding for critical open space, water supply and flood-plain protection, farmland and historic preservation programs across the state.…

  • MANVILLE: Piscataway man, 20, charged with sex assault of girl, 15

    They met online, police said.    A Piscataway Township man has been charged with sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in Manville.    Ian Wilkinson, 20, of Deborah Drive, was arrested Wednesday night, July 17, by Manville police.    Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said that on July 17, the victim reported to the Manville Police that she…

  • TRENTON: Frontier Airlines extends lease with Trenton-Mercer Airport

    Lease will be in effect from May 21, 2013, to May 20, 2018    TRENTON — Only six months into its current lease agreement with Trenton-Mercer Airport and Mercer County, Frontier Airlines’ request to extend its lease to five years has been accepted by the Administration, according to Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes.    Under…