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  • CRANBURY: Township adopts budget over mayor’s objection

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The township adopted its 2011 budget at its meeting Monday after a public hearing on the spending plan with the mayor the sole voice of opposition on the Township Committee.    The total proposed budget is $10,811,557 with $6,327,339 to be raised by taxation and a tax rate of…

  • JAMESBURG: Scholarships given at dinner

    JAMESBURG: Scholarships given at dinner

    BERNIEPHOTOS.INFO Students received scholarships at the annual Henry “Spud” Doben´ski Scholarship Awards dinner March 20. Front row from left are Briana McKenna, Hayley Miller, Marisa Guerra and Alexandria Hipo´lito. Back row from left are Mike Haddad, Tiffany Randall, Jamae Lu´cas, Caitlen Tehan and Massimo Valiant.

  • Princeton High School’s Own Tree Hugger

    By Pauline Miller @font-face { font-family: "Lucida Grande"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.apple-style-span { }span.apple-converted-space { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Last spring, when Princeton High School’s garden program began to pick up speed as the season turned, Ross Mazur could often be found alongside…

  • Middlesex Postmasters Hosting Passport Fairs on April 9

    By George Flood Middlesex County, NJ – Metuchen Postmaster Sandra Butler, Monmouth Junction Postmaster John Zenuch, Perth Amboy Postmaster Angel Sotomayor, and Spotswood Acting Postmaster Cynthia Maroldi are hosting Passport Fairs at their respective Post Offices in Middlesex County on Saturday, April 9, 2011 to provide passport information to U.S. citizens and to accept passport…

  • MONROE: Lawsuit says fire election laws violated

    By David Kilby, Staff Writer    MONROE — Several citizens who live in Monroe’s Fire District 3 have filed a lawsuit claiming the district’s fire officials did not follow the statutes in place for fire district elections.    The case will be heard by Superior Court in New Brunswick at a date to be determined, possibly within…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Puppet show briefly turns library into Oz
  • Bait and switch

    Tom Allibone, West Amwell     Switching phone companies to save a buck could raise your real estate taxes if Verizon stops paying the business personal property tax on its poles and wires deployed within your town. It’s hard to believe but true. If Verizon loses 51 percent of the phone line in your town, they…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – New eatery brings Tex-Mex cuisine
  • Marketorum, LLC Launches The Social Sprocket™, A Social Media Service Offering

    Wesley Schmidt LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. n March 30, 2011 n Marketorum, LLC announced today the launch of The Social Sprocket™, a social media service offering with three product levels customizable to organizations looking to develop and implement a strategic social media plan. The Social Sprocket focuses on Facebook, which has more than 500 million active users,…