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  • Flying saucers on Route 1!

    Veteran aviator recalls the exciting early days of the development of hovercraft By: Gwen Runkle    Flying saucers once invaded Plainsboro, hovering over farm fields, waterways and even Route 1. Perhaps more remarkable was that one lucky man got to sit in the driver’s seat.    For 25 years, Barry Nixon of Lawrence Township worked for Princeton…

  • Ellen B. Rumberg

       Ellen B. Rumberg, 54, formerly of Monroe, died Monday, July 2 at her home in Dunedin, Fla.    Ms. Rumberg was born and raised in Passaic.    A graduate of Farleigh Dickinson University, she moved to Florida in 1991, where she was an executive assistant at Tampa Bay Downs Racetrack. While living in New Jersey, she held…

  • Borough gets a visit from the big top

    The circus came to town on Sunday. By:Craig Sernotti    JAMESBURG — There was a long line of people waiting outside 40 minutes before the first show was scheduled to start.    Tickets were checked and couples and families entered the tent. People munched on cotton candy and popcorn, licked at snow cones and waited patiently.    Music…

  • Carrier gets grant to aid transition from mental hospitals

    The $1.2 million state grant will fund a pilot program on the effects of deinstitutionalization. By: David Campbell    MONTGOMERY — The state has awarded Carrier Clinic a $1.2 million grant for a pilot program aimed at helping patients leaving the state’s four psychiatric hospitals adjust to life outside.    The program is one of the latest…

  • coming soon

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  • Living the artist’s life

    Salomon Kadoche has lived in several countries, been a musician and worked as a commercial artist for 25 years, but his constant passion since age 14 has been painting. By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — Salomon Kadoche has lived in several countries, been a musician and worked as a commercial artist for 25 years, but his constant…

  • Custodial supervisor denies district charges

    The Princeton school district claims he bilked the district by getting bogus overtime payments. By: Jeff Milgram    The suspended custodial supervisor whom the Princeton Regional School District wants to fire denies filing false overtime claims and his lawyer has asked the state Department of Education to dismiss all charges against him and to order his…

  • Household sprinkler systems newweapon against deadly home fires

    Improved designs minimize damagefrom fire and water By:Kara Alaimo    When a fire broke out in the garage of a home on Nostrand Road at about 2 a.m. July 2, a race began, pitting local volunteer firefighters against the fire’s spreading flames.    Ultimately, the flames destroyed the house, but if the house had been outfitted with…

  • Beware the entanglements of November

    EDITORIAL: Board of Education was right to oppose bill changing date of school elections    Last month, the Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution expressing opposition to two bills in the Legislature seeking to move the school board election calendar.    The bills mentioned in the resolution, S-404 and A-1721, are among several pieces of legislation…