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  • District wants to put K students all in one school

    Students By: Natalia Knochowski – Staff Writer MONROE – Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton debuted a new redistricting proposal at Wednesday night’s Board of Education meeting. The redistricting proposal suggested the implementation of a full-day kindergarten program in one central kindergarten school or Early Childhood Center. Students now have half-day kindergarten. Dr. Hamilton, in his presentation, said…

  • ‘Autumn Tales’ auditions to be held

    By: centraljersey.com MONROE – The Bimah Players Community Theater is looking for adult and child actors over 10 for "Autumn Tales," a dramatization with music of humorous and scary ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and others. This is a readers theater production; memorization is not required. Actors will audition reading from the script.…

  • Soldiers’ stories

    By: centraljersey.com The Cranbury Press would like to hear from other families with loved ones serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Call us at 609-874-2181 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected].

  • Meetings

    Mon., Aug. 23 By: centraljersey.com Cranbury Township Committee, municipal building, 23A North Main St. Monroe Township Recreation Advisory Board, 7 p.m., 1 Municipal Plaza. Tues., Aug. 24 Monroe Township Zoning Board of Adjustment, 7 p.m., 1 Municipal Plaza. Thurs., Aug. 26 Monroe Township Planning Board, 7 p.m., 1 Municipal Plaza. Jamesburg Board of Education, JFK…

  • 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…

  • MONROE: Lobster Shanty is now American Bar and Grille

    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.,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH FAMILY YMCA COLLABORATING WITH THE SOMERSET VALLEY PLAYHOUSE THIS FALL TO BRING ACTING CLASSES TO YOUTH AND TEENS
  • 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…

  • 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…