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  • Defections hinder Monroe tennis team

    By: Al Wicklund    Monroe Township High School girls tennis coach Trudy Marmorek was looking forward to a banner season — until the bad news started.    "We had lost only one member of last year’s winning team through graduation and things were looking good, but since last fall we’ve lost three players through transfer and moving.…

  • Township seeks thoughts on new seniors center

    East Windsor is seeking input from its senior citizens about what it would like to see in the new seniors center at two meeting between now and Sept. 20. By: Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR — How should the township’s new senior center be laid out? Area residents will have an opportunity to share their insights…

  • Interim abusiness chief hired by school district

    The interim business administrator will be paid $500 a day. By: Lea Kahn    Donna Cubit-Swoyer was named interim school business administrator and board secretary Aug. 28 by the Lawrence Township Board of Education.    Dr. Cubit-Swoyer starts work Sept. 19, two days before the departure of current School Business Administrator and Board Secretary Nicholas    Puleio. He…

  • Getting ready for his first day

    COUNTDOWN TO SCHOOL By: Nick D’Amore    Today is filled with firsts for the Joseph family. It is the first day of school for their three sons. For one son, it is the first-ever day of any sort of school.    Danny Joseph, 5 years old, will be going to Greenbrook School today (Thursday), attending a full…

  • Viking tennis team practices optimism

    By: Rich Fisher    If practice makes perfect, what does a good "practice season" make?    Evidently, the South Brunswick High tennis team will find out if coach Barbara Whitman’s analysis is correct.    "We’ve had a tremendously successful practice season, I don’t know how else to put it," Whitman said. "We’ve done a lot of challenge matches,…

  • Bus service unchanged

    Suburban Transit says dispute over lots in East Brunswick won’t have any impact in South Brunswick. By: Brian Shappell    Suburban Transit Corp. representatives say South Brunswick bus service will not be affected by a dispute between the company and Academy Bus Inc. over who can use lots in two East Brunswick locations.    "We will continue…

  • Trent meeting story was inaccurate

    Letter to the editor    Many people have been talking about the towns forum held Aug. 20 by Councilmen Rick Miller and Mark Holmes. For those of us who could not attend, we rely on The Lawrence Ledger to keep us informed and describe the meetings in their truest form. If an inflammatory incident takes place,…

  • New era has leftover attitude for MHS football team

    Grifin hopes to build on foundation Theodosatos built By: Ken Weingartner    Milt Theodosatos is gone, but there’s still plenty of "Coach T" left with the Monroe High School football team.    And it’s all about attitude.    "The problems in the past with Monroe football have been in the mirror," said Jim Griffin, the Falcons’ new coach…

  • Sterlecki seeks improvement on various levels for PHS football

    By: Bob Nuse    Ray Strelecki knows the first place people will look in order to see if the Princeton High football program is improving is the won-loss record.    But as a coach, he knows improvement doesn’t always mean more wins.    "We had 21 guys go to the Princeton University football camp this summer, and we…