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  • The Grande offers variety

    Monmouth Junction community features surroundings every bit as important as its gracious homes The Packet Group    The Grande at Monmouth Junction in South Brunswick Township is a luxurious estate-style community that borders a heavily forested reserve, which itself adjoins the playgrounds, ball fields and scenic walking trails of beautiful Sondek Park. The surrounding region offers…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of March 1. By: Township Committee to hear from Shriners To the editor:     On Wednesday, March 7, the Millstone Township Committee at its meeting will hear a presentation about Shriners Hospitals for Children.    This organization is a non-profit charity that assists children with free medical care. Shriners Hospitals for Children covers…

  • Council insensitive to police officers

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    Once again Mayor Johnson and the Democratic Town Council have shown their insensitivity to the employees of the township. They have voted themselves a raise while the officers of the Police Department are still without a labor agreement. William Axelrod Kendall Park

  • Wildlife Center seeks volunteers

       Volunteer support is needed to assist the efforts of the Mercer County Wildlife Center.    The center cares for wild birds and animals who become injured, ill, orphaned or displaced, providing medical treatment and a temporary refuge prior to release back into an appropriate wild habitat.    The center is staffed 365 days a year by one…

  • Obituaries

    For week of March 1. By: Edith May Schuchardt    MANCHESTER — Edith May Schuchardt, 81, died Sunday, Feb. 25, at Whiting Health Care.    Born in Trenton, she lived in Ewing and Trenton before moving to Whiting.    She worked five years as a secretary and previously worked 12 years as a secretary for Ewing Township School…

  • Hopewell Township Committee special election March 6

    Hart and Bartlett answer League’s question    The special election to determine the winner of the one open seat on the Hopewell Township Committee will be held Tuesday, March 6, from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.    This election is a re-match between two candidates — John Hart (Republican)and Francesca Bartlett (Democrat) — contesting one of the five seats…

  • Recreation groups set Back Timberlane open house

    Event slated for March 8    The Recreation Foundation of Hopewell Valley and the Recreation Roundtable will host an open house on March 8 between 7 and 9 p.m. in the Activity Room of the Hopewell Township Branch, Mercer Library.    The library is located on Pennington-Titusville Road (West Delaware Avenue), just east of Hopewell Valley Central…

  • Council eyes mixed use for senior housing

    A proposed ordinance would provide for the creation of a higher density senior housing community than is currently allowed in South Brunswick. By: Matthew Armstrong    People over 55 years old may be able to move into a community filled with friends and activities in the future, without having to leave the township.    Formative plans for…

  • Washington PTA marks Founder’s Day

    Awards presented to Florence Gange and Sharon DeVito for volunteerism. By:    WASHINGTON — "The National PTA grew from a seed … the seed of an idea planted over 100 years ago in the mind of American motherhood. It was organized as the National Congress of Mothers, but since 1924 it has been known as the…