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  • Suburban Paradise

    The Michener Art Museum hosts Levittown: A Home of Our Own. By: Matt Smith    With a wood-paneled wagon full of possessions and the deed to a tiny parcel of land in their back pockets, countless Americans set out for the wide-open frontier with hopes for a better life — in suburbia.    "When people think of…

  • Frozen Brainerd open for skating

    Frosty temperatures give Cranbury a chance to skate By: Matt Kirdahy    Thanks to more than a week of below-freezing temperatures, Brainerd Lake was open to ice skaters Thursday.    Public Works Director Tom Witt walked out onto the ice with auger in hand Thursday morning and bored a hole to measure the thickness of the ice.…

  • Vineyards community is close to approval

    Proposal on another senior community in Monroe reaches finalization By: Al Wicklund MONROE — Monroe is closing in on another senior community.    The Vineyards, a proposed planned retirement community to be located in the western part of the township, needs final approval from the township Planning Board and suitable weather for construction.    The community of…

  • Joseph Temple

        Joseph Temple, 78, of Monroe, died Friday, Jan. 17, at his home.     Born in North Bergen, he lived in East Brunswick and the Monroe area for 35 years. He graduated from Rutgers University and served in the Army during World War II. He was employed by IBM as a financial manager for 32…

  • Medicare cuts pinching Elms

    Decrease in federal funding may have impact on service By: Matt Kirdahy    Medicare cuts made by the federal government mean local nursing homes such as The Elms of Cranbury are going to have to re-evaluate how they run their facilities.    The Elms of Cranbury is losing almost $25,000 a month in funding as a result…

  • Suburban Paradise

    The Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., celebrates the 50th anniversary of the suburb that changed America with ‘Levittown: A Home of Our Own.’ By: Matt Smith Levittown: A Home of Our Own includes Bucks County resident Joan Klatchko’s contemporary photographs of her native Levittown. At right, "Girl on Tricycle" and below, "The Widows’ Club."…

  • Etta Jagemann

        Etta Amelia Jagemann, 79, died Thursday, Jan 16, at the home of her son in Monroe.     Born in New Brunswick, she lived in Spotswood for 25 years before moving to Monroe in 1998.     Her parents, William and Etta Eden, are deceased. Her husband, George J. Jagemann, died in 1978 and a son,…

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