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  • Group upset by Bloomberg panel makeup

    SeNSE group wants memebers from across township; mayor chose only those near facilities By: Helen Pettigrew    MONTGOMERY — The Township Planning Board has appointed members to a committee created to address issues resulting from the planned expansion of Bloomberg, L.P., leaving some members of a neighborhood group disgruntled over the choices.    Board Chairman Richard LeTard…

  • Safeway buyout won’t affect store under construction

    By: John Patten        EAST WINDSOR – Plans for Safeway Foods to buy Genuardi’s Family Markets won’t affect the new Genuardi’s store planned for Route 571 in East Windsor.    "All the indications at this time are the East Windsor store will open as a Genuardi’s," said Genuardi’s spokeswoman Kate Allison.    Safeway Inc. announced plans to…

  • Storming Luzon: Vet saw action in Philippines

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Leslie Ferentz of Clearbrook earned his Purple Heart Medal in the Philippines during the World War II landing at Lingayen Gulf.    The Japanese defenders had moved big guns from Singapore to the hills of Luzon in anticipation of the allied landing.    As the landing craft neared the shore on a…

  • Anne Stainman

       Anne Kessler Stainman, 81, a resident of Clearbrook, died Monday at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center Hospice in Edison.    Born in Perrineville, she had resided in New Brunswick and North Brunswick before moving to Clearbrok in 1988. She also maintained a residence in Lakeworth, Fla.    She retired in 1986 after more than 20 years…

  • Schools chief on the job market

    MONROE — Superintendent of Schools Stuart Schnur is one of two finalists for a superintendent’s position in Montgomery Township. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE – Monroe Township Schools Superintendent Stuart Schnur is one of two finalists for a superintendent’s position in Montgomery Township, Somerset County.    Dr. Schnur confirmed Wednesday night he is one of the leading…

  • Arts Council’s plan is denied

    Expansion project rejected by 6-5 Planning Board vote. By: Jennifer Potash    A bitterly divided Princeton Regional Planning Board has rejected The Arts Council of Princeton’s plan to expand its building.    The motion came at the stroke of midnight Thursday, following emotional testimony from neighbors in the John-Witherspoon neighborhood in opposition to the project.    The vote…

  • PHASE THREE

    Idealism versus practicality By: Arnold Bornstein How many times in your life have you or somebody close to you been confronted with a decision, large or small, in which doing what you wanted clashed with doing what was practical? It’s a dilemma that goes back a few thousand years to the Greek philosophers, among others:…

  • Council weighs firehouse options

    Officials deciding how to trim costs By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — With recent bids on the township’s planned Princeton Junction firehouse between $500,000 and $1 million higher than expected, township officials must now decide whether to scale back the building or ask taxpayers to cover the difference.    In a presentation Monday night to…

  • Picking a Christmas Tree is good holiday fun for many

    By: Nick    Lined up in perfect rows, like an army of firs, spruces and pines, the selection of Christmas trees at area farms seems to stretch to infinity.    At Simonson’s Farm on George Davison Road in Cranbury and Wayne Lubowicki’s farm on Old Church Road in Monroe, families gathered to keep their holiday traditions alive,…