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  • Jane Mildred Burke

       Jane Mildred Burke, 79, died Saturday, June 22, in North Carolina at her daughter’s home.    Born on Sept. 29, 1922, Ms. Burke lived first in North Babylon, N.Y., and later in Monroe.    She enjoyed gardening, crossword puzzles, her pets and her family.    Her husband, Joseph M. Burke Sr., and two brothers-in-law, Thomas F. Burke and…

  • Princeton planners approve new university building

    Wood-framed humanities building will be built near Nassau Street. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton University received the go-ahead Thursday from the Princeton Regional Planning Board for the final component of the university’s Adlinger Center for the Humanities.    The university was seeking final site plan approval to construct a 10,400-square-foot office building adjacent to the Joseph Henry…

  • Spider-Man is serious business for comics maven

    Princeton resident helps resurrect venerable Marvel Comics. By: David Campbell    For Bill Jemas, character is what’s driving the renaissance at Marvel Comics. And the Spider-Man sneakers and dental floss dispensers don’t hurt, either.    Mr. Jemas moved to Princeton when he worked for Marvel in the mid-1990s as liaison for Mount Laurel-based Fleer Trading Card Co.,…

  • Bidders woo cable system?

    RCN dismisses reporting on rival offers as speculative. By: David Campbell    RCN is reportedly poised to sell its Princeton-area cable TV system for approximately $280 million.    RCN officials would not comment on the report, calling it speculative and based on rumor.    A story last week in Multichannel News, which reports on the cable TV and…

  • No lions and tigers, just bears

    Area residents can expect to see more of the creatures as they migrate from their traditional habitats. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — While lions and tigers still seem to be the province of fairy tales, zoos and Detroit sports franchises, it appears that bears have become a part of everyday life in suburban New Jersey.…

  • Maselli back to baseball

    Hitter helping WW-P Legion. By: Justin Feil    Mike Maselli devoted his last two summers entirely to basketball. But after a successful spring of baseball at Lawrenceville, he’s turning more attention to the diamond this summer as a member of the West Windsor-Plainsboro team in the Mercer County American Legion League.    "I was a huge basketball…

  • Sarnoff vision can become reality

    West Windsor Planning Board approves 3 million-square-foot general development plan for technology campus. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — For more than a year, Sarnoff Corp.’s plans for a 3 million-square-foot technology campus have been the subject of heated debate.    Even before the company filed its general development plan in January, township officials and residents…

  • Mary L. Godowski

       Mary L. Godowski, 91, of Monroe, died Wednesday, June 19, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge Division.    Born in Bayonne, she had resided in Monroe since 1949.    Before retiring in 1996, Ms. Godowski was employed as a housekeeper and cook at Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Spotswood where she worked for 23 years. Ms.…

  • Martha Schwartzman

       Martha Schwartzman, 87, of Monroe, died Wednesday, June 19, at The Residence at Forsgate.    Ms. Schwartzman was born in New Brunswick and lived in Perth Amboy most of her life before moving to Monroe two years ago.    She was a bookkeeper at Perth Amboy General Hospital in Perth Amboy. She was a member of Congregation…