Category: archives
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Cranbury woman is Making children smile
Colleg student works with international nonprofit group By: Brian Shappell Tammy Wang knows the value of a smile. Ms. Wang, a 1999 Princeton High School graduate and Cranbury resident, was selected to participate in The Smile Train Scholars Program. Working with the nonprofit organization has given her many opportunities including working in Manhattan for the…
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Patricia Fisk Butterworth, 57
Patricia Fisk Butterworth, 57, of 878 West End Avenue, Manhattan, and Cranbury, died at home in Cranbury on Wednesday. She was born in Greensboro, N.C. Ms. Butterworth graduated from the University of the Pacific. She was affiliated with Whitfield Associates, an associate management firm, at the time of her death. She was a member of…
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Marie Ann ‘Mary’ Sansone
Marie Ann "Mary" Sansone, 84, died Thursday at Morris Hall Nursing Home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a longtime Ewing resident before moving to Lawrence. Mrs. Sansone was a homemaker. She was a member of Incarnation Roman Catholic Church and its Rosary Society, Ewing, the Columbiettes and Senior Citizens Club of Ewing. Daughter of…
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Saul Weiss
Saul Weiss died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Rockaway, N.Y., he lived in East Brunswick for 27 years before moving to Monroe in 1997. Before retiring, he was a self-employed businessman. Surviving are his wife of 38 years, Blanche Levitt Weiss; two daughters, Florence Ackerman and Arlene Valentino, both…
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To repair or replace church – Methodist congregation considers options
By: Michael Arges Jesus said of himself "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head" (Luke 9:58, New Revised Standard Version). First United Methodist Church of Hightstown members have had a taste of such homelessness since November when their church…
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Neighbors band together to protest airplane noise
By: Brian Shappell The effects of heavy volume air traffic at Newark Airport are being felt, and heard, all the way into Cranbury. Several residents are up in arms at the increase in air traffic en route to a airport dozens of miles north. Several residents said that, depending on the time of day, the…
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Local runners experience ‘big-time meet’ in Buffalo
By: Carolyn M. Hartko For a few Monroe track athletes, this summer’s definition of extreme sport was driving seven hours (one way) to run a 10-minute race. The Monroe Township Recreation Department track team took that unusual step the last weekend in July in order to compete in the 4×800 meter relay at the National…
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Latest plan to eliminate tolls is worth debating
PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 4 By: Packet Editorial Every couple of years or so, another group comes along with a plan for getting rid of the tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, the Atlantic City Expressway or the Hudson River and Delaware River crossings. And every one of these plans, after a…
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Louise Riley, 82
Louise Riley, 82, died last Tuesday at Beth Israel Hospital, Passaic. Born in Newark, she lived in Spotswood for more than 35 years before moving to Monroe in 1989. She was a member of the Spotswood Reformed Church and the Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 4589 in Spotswood. Her husband, Rudolph, is deceased. She is…
