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  • The critical importance of lab tests

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Barbara Stechman, MT (ASCP)    Few people outside the hospital setting are aware of the critically important testing performed every day by laboratory professionals, yet many of us have had a blood test, a glucose reading, a cholesterol screening or a Pap smear within the last year.    According to the American Society for…

  • Police to host child safety seat check

    Trained child passenger safety technicians will be ready to assist motorists with the proper installation and use of their child safety seat. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — The township Police Department, in conjunction with McCaffrey’s market, will be hosting a child seat check from 9 a.m. to noon Monday at the Southfield Shopping Center…

  • Veterans recall D-Day invasion

    Two Monroe men who were part of that great invasion force on June 6, 1944, tell their story. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Thursday was the 58th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy and the beginning of the end of World War II.    Nazi Germany was 11 bloody months of fighting from being…

  • Maguire is first girls champ at MHS

    Junior wins 800 meters at NJSIAA Group II meet By: Carolyn M. Hartko    It has been 11 years since Monroe Township High School started a track and field program, and that’s how long it has taken to produce a state champion from the girls’ squad. Junior Ashley Maguire ended the drought with a first-place finish…

  • Some volunteers ignored

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    I found myself baffled as I read the mayor’s message in the East Windsor Township Spring/Summer 2002, volume 4, issue 2 township newsletter. In case you haven’t read this message, I will explain why I am so baffled.    The mayor takes the time to focus on the great…

  • SI Guy is local guy

    Monroe graduate stars in a series of Sports Illustrated commercials. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Jay Leibowitz, a 1993 graduate of Monroe Township High School, has been acting for years, but probably more people saw him in his first few TV commercials for Sports Illustrated than all of his previous audiences combined.    Craig Sender of…

  • Graduates hear call to reason, civic duty

    Princeton University’s new president tells 1,702 graduates to look at the big picture as they go out into a world that is ‘at one and the same time highly perilous and wonderfully promising.’ By: Jeff Milgram Staff photos by Mark Czajkowski Princeton University Graduation    Shirley Tilghman, in her first commencement address as president of Princeton…

  • Column: Cup Takes

    U.S. win gets World Cup trip off to great start By: John Andrulis    Editors note: Montgomery High graduate John Andrulis is attending the World Cup, which is being hosted by Japan and Korea. While there he will offer some insight into the happenings surrounding the event, as well as the adjustments a fan from the…

  • Stephen P. Rasi

       HIGHTSTOWN — Stephen P. Rasi, 65, died Monday at The Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Glen Lyon, Pa., he lived in Hightstown 27 years.    He had been an ordained deacon at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church since 1983 and his ministries included the RCIA program, the ESL program and Renew. He was…