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  • Todd L. Powell

       EAST WINDSOR — Todd L. Powell, 28, died Saturday at Frankford Hospital, Torresdale Division, Philadelphia.    Born in Trenton, he was a longtime Hamilton and East Windsor area resident.    He worked seven years with National Pools and Spas in Robbinsville and was a member of the Sons of American Legion Post 65 in Metuchen. He enjoyed…

  • Excitement, disappointment for primaries

    EDITORIAL: There are reasons to be excited about, and yet express dismay over, the borough’s June primary elections.    The school board elections have passed and three new members will soon be sworn in to their seats on the Board of Education. The budget has passed. But election fun will not be leaving us anytime soon.…

  • Monroe tab narrowly passes

    MONROE — $47.91 million school budget gets voter approval By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — The winning margins get slimmer, but Monroe Township school budgets continue to get voter approval.    The $47.91 million 2002-2003 school budget — with $36.49 million to come from local taxation — won by a 135-vote margin, 2,249 to 2,114 Tuesday.    The…

  • Statewide, deer harvests proceed without much ado

    Culling operations in other New Jersey towns draw little protest. By: David Campbell    While the din of protest surrounding Princeton Township’s deer cull this year was making headlines in newspapers from New York to Philadelphia and all points in between, other municipalities in New Jersey went about the business of killing deer under the state’s…

  • Gerald V. Carbone Sr.

       EAST WINDSOR — Gerald V. Carbone Sr., 53, died April 11 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in New Brunswick, he lived in East Windsor 25 years.    Mr. Carbone retired as a communication analyst with Consumers Distribution Inc., Edison. He had been a scout master of Cub Scout Pack 53, East Windsor,…

  • Middle school crafters quilting gifts of love

    Students find sewing quilts for needy children provides surprising number of rewards. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — For Cindy Tantum, making quilts always has been a labor of love. Now, with the help of about 14 students at the Thomas R. Grover Middle School, she is sharing that love with children in need.    In…

  • Grass-root campaign eyes cash for Updike

    CRANBURY — Locals planning private fund-raisers By: Casha Caponegro    Residents hope private fund-raisers will raise enough money to allow the township to buy the Updike parcel.    A group of residents, led by David and Angela Cook, plans to initiate a private fund-raising campaign to ensure the Updike property is bought by the township and not…

  • MOST THINGS CONSIDERED

    Lottery hopefuls fit Thoreau’s portrait of ‘quiet desperation’ By: Minx McCloud    For a transplanted New Yorker like me, one of the down sides of living here is that sometimes when there’s a really big lottery amount at stake, my friends back home try to wheedle me into buying them tickets.    I have no idea how…

  • School budget passes easily in Montgomery

    Just under 11 percent of registered voters went to the polls. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Nearly two-thirds of those who ventured to the polls Tuesday voted in favor of the Board of Education’s $35.6 million tax levy for next year’s budget. The district’s total budget will reach $47.9 million.    The budget carries a tax…