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  • Retiring is cool for nurse leader

    Executive director of nursing at medical center retires after 35 years By: Jennifer Potash    Michele "Mickey" Ryan can’t wait for the first nor’easter of the winter season to sock Princeton with a blizzard, but it is not because of the summer’s sultry heat.    Instead, in her 35-year career as a nurse at The Medical Center…

  • Doo-wop band to help celebrate Independence Day

    By:Nick D’Amore         There is a good reason to show up early to this year’s Fourth of July fireworks event at Thompson Park, besides getting prime viewing space.     Providing much of the musical entertainment before this year’s fireworks are set off, are a doo-wop band from New York, the Brooklyn Keys. The band…

  • Lawrence Kelley

    By: Staff HIGHTSTOWN – Lawrence M. Kelley, 85, of Hightstown passed away on Tuesday at his residence. Born in Conneaut, Ohio, he formerly lived in Pensacola, Fla., before moving to Hightstown. Mr. Kelley was a graduate of Williamsport (Pa.) High School; the Peddie School, Class of 1933; and Yale University, Cum Laude with a Bachelor…

  • School bus driver is charged following fatal May accident

    By:Al Wicklund Al WicklundStaff Writer MONROE — The driver of a school bus, carrying township teen-agers home from parochial school, received five motor vehicle summonses stemming from a May 26 fatal accident in Manalapan. The bus driver, Gary Mason, 44, of South River still awaits possible criminal charges from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. The…

  • Schools hire architect for expansion plans

    Woodbridge firm hired for $88,000 By:Jack Baney    Despite some misgivings from the public, Hillsborough School District is one step closer to implementing a plan for dealing with school overcrowding.    The Board of Education voted unanimously June 22 to pay $88,000 or less to NKP, a Woodbridge-based architectural firm, for planning such district improvements as expansions…

  • New Jersey should open public records

    Access laws are among nation’s most restrictive By:The Packet Group    In 1973, at the height of the Watergate scandal, Brendan Byrne ran for governor of New Jersey promising "government under glass" — a series of reforms aimed at moving the process of doing the public’s business from smoke-filled rooms to the public arena.    To that…

  • Independence Day is music to his ears

    David Guerzini composes symphonies with fireworks. By: David M. Campbell    David Guerzini composes symphonies.    Not musical symphonies, although his works often accompany such scores as the 1812 and William Tell overtures.    He describes his compositions – which he maps out with paper and pen like any composer – in terms of "architecture," "layering" and "candle…

  • EDITORIAL: July 4 is the time to celebrate and to strive for freedom

    By: Tuesday is Independence Day.    While we enjoy our day off from work, partaking in the barbecues, the picnics, the fireworks, we also should take time to remember what the Fourth is — a celebration of American independence from Great Britain and our Founding Father’s proclamation that all people “are created equal.”    This idea sets…

  • You can’t have it both ways

    Restricting development means restricting immigration By:Hugh Brennan    My grandfather was an illegal alien. He jumped ship in Canada, walked across the border and never looked back.    I’m very grateful he did. I have a deep and sentimental attachment to the Ellis Island version of the American Dream. But as Teddy Roosevelt said, "The only thing…