Category: archives
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Plainsboro planners OK Village Center housing
Sharbell wins board approval for 24 homes, 5 townhouses. By: Gwen Runkle PLAINSBORO Plans for the township’s Village Center continue to move steadily ahead. On Monday, the Planning Board unanimously granted final approval to Sharbell Development Corp. for the construction of 24 single-family homes and five townhouses on an 11-acre site between the firehouse…
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Edward T. Szalus
Edward T. Szalus, 75, died Sunday, July 14, at the Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Newark, Mr. Szalus lived in South River for 35 years before moving to Monroe 10 years ago. He was a truck driver for School Pantry Food Service in South Amboy for 15 years, retiring in 1989. Mr. Szalus served…
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Offer help instead of complaints
Letter to the editor To the editor: While people like Tom Greenwood sit around barking about problems of our local taxes and school district, thank God there are competent people willing to do the hard work of dealing with reality in order to sort out the most appropriate solutions. Anyone who actually attends public meetings…
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Library site remediation on schedule
Contaminated soil at the south end of the site has been hauled away. By: Jennifer Potash The environmental remediation of the Princeton Public Library site is proceeding on schedule, according to library officials. Eric Greenfeldt, the assistant library director who leads the day-to-day operation of the project, said the concrete slab of the former library…
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Doyle looks royal in winning state title
7-year-old Monroe resident advances to U.S. Kids Golf World Championship By: Rich Fisher He may not be practicing putts with Bob Hope on the Mike Douglas Show like 2-year-old Tiger Woods did, but Monroe’s Sean Doyle is making quite a name for himself at a young age. Doyle, a 7-year-old who will enter the second…
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Farmers weather drought
Local farmers may soon feel the pain of no rains By: Rebecca Tokarz While local farmers are producing crops this year, even with lower-than-normal rainfall, they remain concerned about what could happen during the rest of the summer. "We are in good shape when you look at crops even with the heat stress," said Bill…
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Anthony Cusumano
Anthony "Tony" Cusumano, formerly of Cranbury, died Thursday, June 27, in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Mr. Cusumano was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Sicilian parents who immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island. Mr. Cusumano earned a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Brooklyn College in 1935, and served in the U.S. Navy during World…
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Suit claims university misuse of endowment
Heirs of donor want to shift nearly $600 million to another university. By: Steve Rauscher Attorneys for the descendants of Charles and Marie Robertson, who donated $35 million to establish and endow the Robertson Foundation at Princeton University in 1961, filed suit Wednesday, seeking to strip the university of its endowment and shift the funds…
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All-star brothers sharing moment
Friel brothers maintain busy schedule with 12s, 10s all-star baseball teams By: Justin Feil When the Montgomery 12-year-old all-star team wrapped up its win in the Readington baseball tournament Saturday, the first thing that Brian Friel did when he got home was call to see how his younger brother Mikey’s team had done in the…
