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  • Montgomery sets forums on traffic

    By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — The township Planning Board is ramping up another Master Plan revamp, and everyone is invited to join in.    The board will hold the first in a series of public forums March 11 to solicit input regarding the township’s traffic circulation problems.    "We’re going to present the public with the problems…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY

    We need to win the war against tobacco By: Judy Shepps Battle    War is hell.    For four decades the United States has waged an anti-smoking campaign using legal and educational tools. Laws regarding the sale of tobacco products to minors have been passed and enforced, as have regulations for promotional advertising and glamorization of smoking…

  • Saving reefscould save lives

    To the editor    Coral reefs may unlock cancer cures. A source that could unlock cancer the secret to the cure for many major diseases could be closer to home than many Americans think.    Just off the coast of both America’s shores, an underwater kingdom with a populace larger than any country is just waiting to…

  • Silver Years

    Freedom of Expression: The Langhorne-based ‘Photo Review’ hosts a retrospective exhibit in Philadelphia honoring its silver anniversary. By: Jodi Thompson Above, "Matera, Italy," Emmet Gowin, 1980. Above, "Fire," Martha Madigan, from the series Human Nature, 1993. Above, "Alisa and Christina, Northern California," Jock Sturges, 1991.    Certainly Alfred Stieglitz, noted for his promotion of photography as…

  • Global warmingcan be stopped

    To the editor    Recently, I have researched an issue in which I am exceedingly apprehensive about that will affect people all around the world … global warming.    For those of you who don’t know, global warming is the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth’s lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in…

  • Princeton’s indoor Heps title is positive sign

    Tiger senior Smith hopes to re-write record books at IC4As By: Justin Feil    Ryan Smith has enjoyed three great years with the Princeton University men’s track and field team, and he’s looking to top it off with an outstanding final year.    Smith’s senior year got off to a typically fine start as the Tigers won…

  • Clubhouse adds to ambiance at Four Seasons

    Spectacular clubhouse of 17,000 square feet is the focal point of this Upper Freehold community.    Residents of K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Upper Freehold are celebrating the completion of their world-class clubhouse.    Including its indoor swimming pool, the spectacular clubhouse is about 17,000 square feet. This "lifestyle center" is the focal point of the community,…

  • Montgomery board OKs additional J&J parking

    By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — The Planning Board has approved Johnson & Johnson’s application to add 50 parking spaces to its facility’s parking lot off Grandview Road in the northwest section of the township.    The health-care manufacturer was drawing from a reserve of "banked" parking spaces granted by the board during the original application process…

  • Mary S. Kelly

       HIGHTSTOWN — Mary S. Kelly, 89, died Monday at home.    Born in Yugoslavia, she was a longtime Hightstown resident.    She retired as a setter for Hightstown Rug Co. after 30 years and enjoyed gardening, reading, movies and her cats.    Daughter of the late Peter and Katrina Binder Schermer and wife of the late John S.…