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  • Hitting the store in time for school

    Back to school shopping is hard work By: Rebecca Tokarz    JAMESBURG — Parents and kids — start your engines. The last minute back-to-school shopping frenzy has begun.    With less than seven days remaining, parents are hitting the stores with their kids to find the perfect pair of jeans and pick up some basic school supplies.…

  • Along the Waterfront

    Atlantic City offers plenty of activities other than gambling, if you know where to look. Other Atlantic City Diversions By: Susan Van Dongen    In Christopher Cook Gilmore’s 1978 novel, Atlantic City Proof, the Jersey Shore author tells the tale of Garvey Leek, who evolves from a simple back-bay clammer to a cool bootlegger in the…

  • New concepts needed for total revitalization

    EDITORIAL: More is needed than just new sidewalks, new crosswalks and freshly paved roads to revitalize Hightstown’s downtown business district.    Hightstown needs to make sure its downtown revitalization project doesn’t destroy its downtown. And even once construction is finished, there’s still a lot of work to do to make the business district vibrant again.    The…

  • Locals charged in $30K robbery

    Two East Windsorites and a Hightstonian allegedly snuck into the home of a friend’s grandparents in Montgomery, tied up a man and took $30,000. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Four people, including the victims’ granddaughter, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in an Aug. 20 home invasion in Skillman, the Somerset County prosecutor’s office…

  • Township’s defense of overlays for senior housing is postponed

    State panel postpones hearing until October By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Township must wait until October to challenge a state planning committee’s finding that township zoning changes created to encourage high-density senior housing on the environmentally sensitive Princeton Ridge are inconsistent with the state’s smart-growth efforts.    Based on the report’s finding, the State Planning Commission could…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Old favorites and history on Cranbury Day

    Columnist Lorraine Sedor walks us through Cranbury The Cranbury Arts Council has announced a change to its Creative Dance class schedule. Due to a conflict, Miss Lilli has to change the day to Tuesdays.       Classes will now begin Tuesday, Sept. 17 with times remaining the same. Questions may be directed to Anita Boschitsch at (609)…

  • Florence Gruca

       Florence Kesead Gruca, 83, of San Gabriel, Calif., died Thursday, Aug. 15, at South Pasadena Convalescent Hospital, South Pasadena, Calif.    Born in New Brunswick, Ms. Gruca lived in Monroe for her whole life until moving to San Gabriel in 1981.    She was employed as a waitress at the Howard Johnson restaurant on the N.J. Turnpike…

  • Knowing risk factors can help reduce risk of SIDS

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Grace McDonald Largie    In the United States, SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is the leading cause of death among infants under 12 months of age. SIDS, also known as "crib death," is said to have occurred when apparently healthy babies are placed in their cribs and never awaken. SIDS has also…

  • Old school moving to historic zone

    School house may move to Old Church Road    MONROE — The old schoolhouse on Prospect Plains Road — once used as the township hall — may begin its journey late this year or early next year to its new home beside the Charles Dey Homestead on Old Church Road.    The Township Council is expected to…