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  • Marcia Sternberg

       Marcia Sternberg of Lawrenceville died May 3 at home. She was 65.    Born in Jersey City, she lived in Lawrenceville 38 years.    She was formerly employed in the advertising department of The Princeton Packet and later with the archeology and ethnology departments of the New Jersey State Museum.    Daughter of the late Harry Tartalsky, she…

  • EDITORIAL: MOM rail line will only benefit Shore folks

       The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.    This is simple mathematics, something most of us learned in grade school.    But legislators and local and county officials from Monmouth and Ocean counties apparently missed that lesson. How else to explain their commitment to a train line that will take their residents west when…

  • School budget review continues

    Millstone committee could suggest use of surplus to offset tax impact By: Frank C. D’Amico        MILLSTONE — Superintendent William Setaro recently told the Township Committee he can’t cut anything from this year’s defeated school budget — but the issue for now will remain in the hands of the governing body.    The committee met May…

  • Obituaries

    Obituaries from May 11 By: Ernest L. Cline Sr. APOPKA, Fla. — Ernest L. Cline St., 71, died April 23. Born in East Orange, he lived in Allentown before moving to Apopka in 1984. Mr. Cline retired from the state Department of Corrections after 25 years. He was a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean…

  • Council brings in big gun to fight Route 92

    By:Matthew Armstrong    South Brunswick has hired a prominent environmental lawyer to lead the charge against the proposed Route 92 highway that, if built, would slice through the township.    At its May 2 meeting, the Township Council agreed to hire Michael Gerrard, a New York-based attorney with experience fighting highway proposals, according to Township Manager Matt…

  • Donald Mettler Staats

       FRANKLIN — Donald Mettler Staats, 91, of Griggstown, died May 4 at home.    Born in Griggstown, he was a lifelong area resident.    Mr. Staats retired as owner of Staats Farm, Griggstown, after 50 years.    He was a member of Belle-Mead Farmers Co-Operative and Griggstown Reformed Church, where he served as deacon and elder.    He is…

  • Joyce Mae Stokes

       PLUMSTED — Joyce Mae Tabor Stokes, 65, died Sunday at home.    Born in Burlington, Vt., she lived in New Egypt since 1954.    She was a homemaker.    She was a member of the Plumsted Presbyterian Church, New Egypt.    Wife of the late Wallace Stokes, and mother of the late Stephen Stokes, she is survived by four…

  • Scholar athletes

    Stainken, Leonard represent Hillsborough By:Rudy Brandl    Katie Stainken and Jimmy Leonard will graduate in the top one percent of their Hillsborough High senior class next month, so they’ll certainly receive their fair share of academic accolades in the upcoming weeks. However, both elite members of the Class of 2000 have much more than brains to…

  • DISPATCHES: Good test-takers don’t equal good students

    By: Hank Kalet    It’s been a long time since I had to take a standardized test.    The last time was in 1988, when I applied to graduate school. I was taking the GRE (the Graduate Records Examination, used by graduate schools to analyze applicants) and I was nervous. At that point in my life, I…