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  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    Employees from Peapack-Gladstone Bank’s Bernardsville Branch insert school supply donations in their Stuff the Bus collection bin.

  • CRANBURY: No alcohol allowed in park during fireworks

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — As many people plan to watch fireworks this upcoming week, members of the Cranbury Township Committee would like to remind residents alcohol is not allowed in township parks.    The township has an ordinance that prohibits alcohol in any township park at any time, but July 5, the date…

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    By Rosanne Schwab With the school year behind us and summer now in full swing, the United Way of Northern New Jersey, Somerset County has launched their 2011 Stuff the Bus school supply fund drive. Peapack-Gladstone Bank has proudly supported this program in the past by collecting hundreds of school supplies at its Somerset County…

  • CRANBURY: Proposed snow removal law won’t be enforced

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — The Township Committee plans to introduce an ordinance that will ask residents to be courteous of their neighbors and clear their sidewalks when snow-covered and when feasible.    The ordinance to be introduced July 25 will ask residents to shovel their sidewalks 48 hours after daybreak from the time…

  • MONROE: Make-A-Wish donors meet $1 million challenge

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    UNION — New Jersey native and multimillionaire Joe Plumeri issued a challenge that will have extraordinary benefits for children from the Garden State with life-threatening medical conditions.    And it worked!    With supporters raising $1 million for the state’s seriously ill children, Mr. Plumeri increased the largest gift in the history…

  • MONROE: WWII vet chronicles war stories of neighbors

    MONROE: WWII vet chronicles war stories of neighbors

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    MONROE — A World War II veteran from Monroe Village has put together a compilation of war stories from veterans like himself who are from his community.    The compilation, composed by Monroe Village resident Guy Darin, devotes a page for each of the few dozen veterans living in Monroe Village.…

  • MONROE: One-man circus comes to library

    MONROE: One-man circus comes to library

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    MONROE — The Flow Circus made a stop at the Monroe Township Public Library Tuesday evening, leaving a room full of children and parents laughing and amazed.    Paul Miller founded Flow Circus in 1999 with a mission to promote active learning and play through the juggling arts, reads the circus…

  • MONROE: One-man circus comes to library

    MONROE: One-man circus comes to library

    Paul Miller, founder of the Flow Circus, juggles at Monroe Township Public Library on Tuesday.

  • CRANBURY: Library revamps summer reading program

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — The Cranbury Public Library is adding more character and life to its summer reading program through a new online storytelling program and a fundraiser that aims to buy an animal for an impoverished community.    The Cranbury Public Library is participating in the Read to Feed program of Heifer…