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  • EAST WINDSOR: Beth El members celebrate centennial

    EAST WINDSOR: Beth El members celebrate centennial

    Beth El Synagogue member Wendy Soos lights the candles on two cakes celebrating the centennial of the synagogue’s founding Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Doug Carman)

  • MONROE: Woman with MS to ride in benefit for MS

    MONROE: Woman with MS to ride in benefit for MS

    Stephanie Howe, founder of Comfort Keepers, will take a 50-mile bike ride with her family tomorrow to raise money and awareness of multiple sclerosis, which she has.

  • ALLENTOWN: Alice Wikoff named parade grand marshal

    ALLENTOWN: Alice Wikoff named parade grand marshal

       ALLENTOWN — Alice Wikoff can remember a time when the Allentown school’s superintendent, Mr. E. S. Bailey, would ring the dismissal bell early so the children of the village could go skating on the pond before the evening dusk made it too dark to see.    The Allentown mill pond was a full mile around then…

  • CRANBURY: Township to debate state aid resolution

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The state League of Municipalities has called for Cranbury’s support — along with that of all towns in New Jersey — as it asks Gov. Chris Christie and the state Legislature to provide the proper amount of state aid to municipalities.    ”They (the league) have drafted a resolution,…

  • MONROE: Rec Center to have family skate night

    MONROE: Rec Center to have family skate night

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    MONROE — Tuesday night is skate night at the Monroe Township Recreation Center on Monmouth Road.    The Recreation Center at 120 Monmouth Road is hosting a free skate night from 6.30 to 8 every Tuesday until June 21, and the only thing participants have to bring are their own skates.…

  • YWCA Princeton Exhibit Unveiled

    YWCA Princeton Exhibit Unveiled

    By Diane Hasili Enjoying the unveiling of the YWCA Princeton’s “Women Changing Lives” portrait exhibit and Ladies Night Out are (left to right) Ann Rabner, Rachel Dultz, Jill Jachera, and former Princeton mayor, Phyllis Marchand. The exhibit will be on display for a week at the Cranbury Art Cranbury Station Gallery located at 28 Palmer…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Beth El members celebrate centennial

    EAST WINDSOR: Beth El members celebrate centennial

    By Doug Carman, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR – On April 30, 1911, members from five Jewish Hightstown families went to Trenton with some paperwork. They turned it over to the NJ organization/head synagogue, and a month later, the families were granted permission to name their group the First United Hebrew Association of Hightstown.    This past…

  • MONROE: Christie speaks of planned reforms

    MONROE: Christie speaks of planned reforms

    Mark Klein, a member of the Board of Education and Plan´ning Board, addresses Gov. Chris Christie at the Town Hall meeting Wednesday in Monroe.

  • MONROE: Christie speaks of planned reforms

    MONROE: Christie speaks of planned reforms

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    MONROE — Gov. Chris Christie spoke of his reform proposals, and local residents spoke out mostly about state aid disparity, at another Town Hall meeting with the governor at the Villeroy and Boch Company warehouse on South Middlesex Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.    The room was filled with about 400 people…