Category: archives
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Ivy hoops hosts crucial Ivy weekend
Halftime honors former players, coaches By: Justin Feil For Princeton University men’s basketball fans, this weekend’s games are the beginning of the end of an intense Ivy League race that will play out over the final two weeks of the season. The Tigers sit in a three-way tie for first place with Pennsylvania and Yale,…
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MHS track teams finish with a flurry
Monroe High’s boys and girls track teams hosted three GMC Blue Division rivals, and both Falcon squads scored triple victories to end the season with a bang. By:Carolyn M. Hartko With the Monroe Township High School track finally cleared of snow, requested buses showing up on time at the right schools, and the stars aligned…
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John Lesko
John M. Lesko, 67, died Sunday at his home. He had resided in Monroe Township the past 30 years. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War and a member of American Legion Post 253 in Spotswood. His wife, Anne, died in 1972. He is survived by four sons, John, Ken, Tim and…
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Chabad provides an ‘eternal spark’
A March 3 program called the Eternal Spark will explain how the Chabad movement nurtured and preserved the embers of Jewish identity. By:Michael Arges EAST WINDSOR The Eternal Spark is a program to remember and celebrate the survival of Judaism through several decades of often furious oppression under communist rule in the Soviet Union. "The…
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Crime dog sniffs down drugs
By:Al Wicklund MONROE A drug-detecting dog gave a demonstration of his prowess for sixth-grade students at the Woodland and Brookside elementary schools. Onyx, a part chow and part Labrador retriever, sniffed out illegal substances in an exhibition for Drug Abuse Resistance Education classes at the two schools Feb. 15. Monroe Detective Lisa Robinson, who…
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Gold’s Gym Athlete of the Week
Jelenic at best in big games By: Justin Feil West Windsor-Plainsboro High South’s Laine Jelenic has a thing for big games. Big-Game Laine was at her best this fall when she scored two goals to help the Pirate soccer team to a shootout win over East Brunswick. Last week, the senior was up to her…
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Angela Turbolente
Angela Cassino Turbolente, 93, of Monroe, died Sunday Feb. 18 at her home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had lived in the Richmond Hill section of Queens, N.Y. before moving to Rossmoor in 1981. She was a former member of the Rossmoor American-Italian Club and the Busy Bees of Monroe. Her husband Joseph died in…
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AROUND CRANBURY: Plenty to do at the Cranbury library
AROUND CRANBURY by Lorraine Sedor: Our columnist offers insight into the happenings in Cranbury. The Perfect Storm is the topic of the Cranbury Public Library’s next book discussion, which takes place on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the library’s program room. The book was, of course, the basis for the very popular movie of the…
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Daniel O’Brien
Daniel Patrick O’Brien, 27, died Monday Feb. 19 at UMASS Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. Born in Manhasset, N.Y., he lived in DeBois, Pa, Shrewsbury, Mass., and North Brunswick, before moving to Cranbury a few years ago. He was a 1992 graduate of Shrewsbury High School, Shrewsbury, and a 1997 graduate of Rutgers College…
