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  • EAST WINDSOR: Community celebrates Independence Day

    EAST WINDSOR: Community celebrates Independence Day

    Mike Gargiullo, president of East Windsor Rescue Squad District 1, flips hamburgers on a grill while cooking for his fellow EMTs that came to the festivities at Etra Lake Park Saturday evening. Some of them were there on stand-by in case of a 9-1-1 call, Mr. Gargiullo said. (Photo by Doug Carman)

  • EAST WINDSOR: Community celebrates Independence Day

    EAST WINDSOR: Community celebrates Independence Day

    East Windsor resident Otilio Felipe watches her daughter Yadira, 6, and her 18-month-old son Isaias as they camped out in front of the Conair office on Milford Road, waiting for the fireworks show Saturday evening. (Photo by Doug Carman)

  • Press Release: Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège Live at the Vuvuzuela Music Festival

    By Stephen McConnaughey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DERRICK N. ASHONG & SOULFèGE LIVE at the VIVA LA VUVUZUELA MUSIC FEST New York, NY, July 2, 2011—Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège will be performing live at Babycastles in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the Viva La Vuvuzuela Music Festival on Saturday, July 9, 2011 from 9:45 to 10:35 PM.…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Community celebrates Independence Day

    EAST WINDSOR: Community celebrates Independence Day

    Thousands witness spectacular fireworks display Etra Lake Park By Doug Carman, Special Writer    EAST WINDSOR – The spirit of the red, white and blue covered the green field of Etra Lake Park Saturday evening as several thousand spectators filled the park.    People from East Windsor, Hightstown and neighboring communities came with picnic blankets,…

  • JAMESBURG: No farmers market for borough

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    JAMESBURG — The Borough Council turned down a proposal to move the Jamesburg Farmers Market from the First Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg on Gatzmer Avenue to Veterans Memorial Park at the end of West Railroad Avenue.    The council voted down the request 5-1 at its meeting June 8. Its main…

  • MONROE: WWII vet chronicles war stories of neighbors

    MONROE: WWII vet chronicles war stories of neighbors

    Guy Darin has put together a compilation of war stories from fellow Monroe Village residents.

  • Deadly Parvo Virus Affecting Dogs In Central NJ

    By Nicole Tassinaro July 1, 2011 Robbinsville, NJ – The highly contagious, and potentially fatal dog parvovirus has reached Central Jersey. NorthStar VETS has seen about five cases of canines that have come in with parvovirus. First news of the virus began in Cumberland County where there were at least 10 incidences of the disease.…

  • NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    NEW BRUNSWICK — Children will be rewarded for wearing helmets this summer as part of the sixth annual “Wheels Under Your Feet? Helmet on Your Head!” Think Positive Campaign.    It is sponsored by Safe Kids Middlesex County of the Level One Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in…

  • NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    Children from the Metuchen area take to the streets on their bikes June 21 to promote the use of helmets during the kickoff of a Think Positive Campaign sponsored by Safe Kids Middlesex County from the Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center Level One Trauma unit.