Category: archives
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MONROE: Lobster Shanty is now American Bar and Grille
By Natalia Knochowski, Staff Writer MONROE — Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty has been transformed into Baker’s American Bar and Grille. Now diners can enjoy a more comfortable locale with foods like brick-oven pizzas, fresh chicken wings and burgers instead of the former restaurant’s seafood-heavy menu. According to Bob Cooper, the president of Chefs International Inc.,…
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Spotlight
Nature myths, debunked … By: Terry Krautwurst – Mother Earth News When a bee buzzes, it’s getting ready to sting you. There’s no telling where I got that notion as a child – from my imagination, most likely. But because I believed it, any sudden buzzing would toss me into a blind terror. Heart leaping…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Patten puts Voices on council agenda
Citizens group to make formal presentation disputing cop outsourcing report By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer, and Vic Monaco, Managing Editor HIGHTSTOWN — Voices of Hightstown, the citizens’ group that disputes the financial data that forms the basis of a plan to outsource the borough’s police services to East Windsor, will have the opportunity to…
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New microscope to give kids a closer look at science
Plainsboro Public Library By: John Saccenti – Staff Writer PLAINSBORO – PLAINSBORO – The Plainsboro Public Library wants kids to get an up close look at the world of science. To meet that end, it has set its sights on a Wentzscope, an easy to view microscope used at top science museums including the New…
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Police beat Police
East Windsor By: centraljersey.com A 13-year-old township boy was charged Aug. 7 with aggravated assault and attempted aggravated sexual assault. Police said the boy committed several sexual assaults against his 7-year-old brother in April and May in their home on Abbington Drive. He was committed to the Mercer County Youth Detention center pending court action.…
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Fearful Thibault claims police harassed him
Mayoral hopeful supporting cop takeover says agencies are probing By: Vic Monaco – Managing Editor HIGHTSTOWN – Republican mayoral candidate Rob Thibault, a vocal supporter of disbanding the Police Department and outsourcing those services to East Windsor, has filed complaints with the Mercer County prosecutor’s office and other law enforcement officials claiming the local police…
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West Windsor man killed in trailer crash
By: centraljersey.com A West Windsor man died after his 2003 Yamaha YZF motorcycle hit a camper trailer in Robbinsville, Tuesday. Police said the camper trailer and the Chevy Pickup it was being pulled by were found in flames at the intersection of Route 130 and Voelbel Road at 2:48 p.m. and that Raymond Riley, 36,…
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Vintage baseball offered
By: centraljersey.com MONROE – The Dey Farm will host vintage baseball Saturday, Oct. 2, with a doubleheader featuring Flemington Neshanock versus the Philadelphia Athletics, beginning at noon. Remember Cap Anson, Albert Spalding and Alexander Cartwright? See baseball the way it was played in the 1860s and 1870s when the Flemington Neshanock play the Philadelphia Athletics…
