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  • Brookside students ready for business

    By:Al Wicklund    û û û MONROE — Brookside School’s sixth-graders, as part of their workplace readiness program, had 15 “small businesses” in a school trade show last week.    û û Ralph Zamrzycki, director of the work readiness program, said the student business people sold arts and crafts, served food and ran a bank Jan. 24…

  • Cranbury Historian writes town’s bio for state

    By:Brian Shappell    û û û    û û û Betty Wagner is hard at work preparing a short, written history of Cranbu­ ry.    û û The township historian was selected in January by Rutgers Uni­ versity Press to write a 200-word history of Cranbury for its upcom­ ing release of the “Encyclopedia of New Jersey.”   &nb­…

  • Chamber of Commerce revived

    By:Nick D’Amore        JAMESBURG — Mayor Tony LaMantia announced at the Borough Council’s Jan. 24 meeting that the borough would be reviving its chamber of commerce.    The chamber would serve a different function than that of the Jamesburg Civic Association, another organization that targets businesses in the borough.    The chamber’s mission is to be an…

  • Lillian Bernabe

       Lillian Dolores Bernabe, 79, died Wednesday, Jan. 31, at Somerset Medical Center.    Born in Raritan, she was a lifelong resident.    Mrs. Bernabe retired in 1982 after 25 years as a seamstress with Stanhope Manufacturing.    She was a member of St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, its Altar Rosary Society and Golden Age Senior Citizens. She was…

  • Marie Tackacs

       Marie M. Patterson Tackacs, 72, of Ewing died Friday, Feb. 2, at Hamilton Continuing Care Center.    Born in Dunmore, Pa., she was a longtime area resident.    Mrs. Tackacs was a longtime member of Incarnation Roman Catholic Church.    Daughter of the late Albert and Katherine Kovacs Patterson and wife of the late Edward M. Tackacs, she…

  • Grocers help victims if India earthquake

    By:Matthew Armstrong    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A local convenience store is doing what it can to help the relief effort for victims of the earthquake that devastated much of the western state of Gujarat, India, Friday.    The owner of Speedymart Food Stores on Georges Road, Dayton, has put out a collection box and are asking customers…

  • EDITORIAL: Tax rebates are not the answer; we need real reform

       The announcement that property taxes statewide went up 4.9 percent last year has precipitated the usual hand-wringing in Trenton, with legislators from both parties tripping all over themselves to sponsor measures to "return" large chunks of money to property owners in the form of homestead rebates.    In other words, they just don’t get it.    The…

  • Monroe Senior Center to feature presidents

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — Two contrasting facts about Russian life are that the people are desperately poor and their churches and public places are decorated with lots of gold, Paul Haller, Greenbriar resident and veteran traveler said last week.    Mr. Haller shared experiences and photographs from his recent trip to Russia with an audience at…

  • Monroe avoids tree-removal woes

    MONROE — An agreement reached Monday appears to have prevented a court battle over a tree replacement law between Monroe Township and the New Jersey Builders Association. By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — An agreement reached Monday appears to have prevented a court battle over a tree replacement law between Monroe Township and the New Jersey Builders…