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  • Merchants voice deep concerns

    Business owners in Hightstown’s downtown district met with officials from the borough and the DOT Wednesday to air grievances concerning the revitalization construction work. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — It seems an ironic twist: The further along construction for the downtown revitalization project moves, the closer local businesses get to crumbling in its wake.    On…

  • County Oks preservation for two farms

    Two farms in Cranbury received approval to enter the state Farmland Preservation Program By: Casha Caponegro and Rebecca Tokarz    The 130-acre Simonson farm and 87-acre Barclay farm have received county approval to enter the state Farmland Preservation Program.    According to a press release issued this week by the Middlesex County Agricultural Development Board, both farms…

  • MONROE: 9/11 memorial nearly ready

    Memorial Park will honor 9/11 heroes and victims By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Ten black granite panels were put in place earlier this week in the new township Memorial Park honoring the memory of those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and on United Airlines…

  • MONROE:Historic group seeks members

    Historic Preservation Commission is looking for special people By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — The Monroe Township Historic Preservation Commission is looking for applicants with some special qualifications for membership on the commission.    Councilman Henry Miller, the Township Council’s liaison to the commission, said at last week’s Township Council meeting the commission is looking for two…

  • Patten seeks help for tax reform

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    As a member of the Hightstown Borough Council in 2001, I sponsored a resolution which supported an initiative to call for a New Jersey state constitutional convention for the purpose of finding alternative ways to fund public education. Under State of New Jersey statutes, the property tax is…

  • HHS grads combine to win softball tourney

    The Main Street Bistro team won the EB flight of the annual Trentonian Softball Tournament for the second straight year with a 7-0 mark. By: Neil Hay    For the second year in a row, a local team comprised of 13 former Hightstown High School athletes has won the Trentonian Softball Tournament.    Playing under the banner…

  • Goetze’s improvement shows in junior title

    Montgomery resident captures Somerset County Parks golf championship By: Bob Nuse    This past spring Rich Goetze was the No. 8 player on the Montgomery High School golf team.    This summer he’s done all he can to make sure that next year he’s moved up that list.    Goetze, who will be a sophomore when school begins…

  • Local woman finds happiness in horse racing

    HORSE PLAY by Ken Weingartner: Twin Rivers resident Anna Karin Olsson loves training horses for harness racing in Millstone.    It has been said that happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we have to do.    Either way, Anna Karin Olsson has it covered — she’s doing what she…

  • Carol Brizak

       Carol Ritterson Brizak, 54, of Monroe, died Tuesday, Aug. 20.    Born in New Brunswick, Ms. Brizak resided in East Brunswick and Monroe before moving to Burlington four years ago.    She was a social worker at the New Jersey Training School for Boys in Monroe for 10 years before retiring three weeks ago. She loved her…