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  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Calendar

    Sat., April 27    Beef Steak Dinner by South Brunswick Library Foundation, 7 p.m. at the South Brunswick Senior Center, Route 522, Monmouth Junction. Tickets on sale at the library and online at www.sbpl.info. Tickets are $50 each for all-you-can-eat beef tenderloin, penne pasta, sides, beverages, beer, and dessert. For more details, visit www.sbpl.info or call…

  • MONROE: Puppy Paradise officially opens

    MONROE: Puppy Paradise officially opens

    By Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer    MONROE — Puppy Paradise is officially open.    While operating since November, Puppy Paradise, located at 150 Applegarth Road, celebrated its grand opening on April 7 with sunshine, blue skies and Greek food, from the neighboring Taverna Ouzo restaurant.    Owner Michele Martin said about 200 people came out to the…

  • CRANBURY: Parking lot plan spurs debate

    By Kaitlyn Kanzler, Special Writer    CRANBURY — A proposed parking lot generated discussion during the public comment portion of the April 22 Township Committee meeting.    Ordinance #04-13-14, which was on first reading only at Monday’s meeting, would allow the township to acquire a property off of Main Street in order to build a parking lot…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Princeton running store supports Boston Marathon

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Princeton running store supports Boston Marathon

    Azra Baig photo Runners turn a corner in Princeton April 17 during a support run for those impacted by the Boston Marathon bombings.

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Student art show draws crowd

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Student art show draws crowd

    Ed Birch photo District students show off their artwork to parents, friends and the community during the annual Student Art Show April 17

  • MANVILLE: NRA falsely cries ‘abuse of tyranny’

    To the editor:    The National Rifle Association maintains that the Second Amendment guarantees an absolute right to own and bear arms. Any attempt at a different approach is met with cries of “ tyranny.”    However, the actual tyranny is being imposed on our citizens by the NRA and the small minority of its members who…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Seniors vie for Mr. SBHS crown

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Seniors vie for Mr. SBHS crown

    Maria Riegel photo Senior David Landy wins the coveted annual M. SBHS crown Friday night.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Volunteers pull trash from Millstone, canal

    HILLSBOROUGH: Volunteers pull trash from Millstone, canal

       Over two weekends, volunteers from 12 communities joined with the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association and area municipalities to remove 10,509 pounds of trash from streams and lakes.    In Franklin and Hillsborough townships, 45 volunteers from schools, businesses and homes collected a record 809 pounds of trash and debris left by flood, wind and littering along…

  • MONROE: Nazi Holocaust-era survivors tell students their life stories

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer    MANVILLE — Eighth-graders at Alexander Batcho Intermediate School observed April as Holocaust Remembrance Month by displaying a gum wrapper chain they created and inviting members of the Holocaust Society to come to the school April 16.    Holocaust survivors Lois Flamholz and Bill Schrimmer visited the students and their teachers.…