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  • ‘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…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: 2010 Hambletonian winner Cream Ridge-bred

    CENTRAL JERSEY: 2010 Hambletonian winner Cream Ridge-bred

    By Ken Weingartner, Special Writer    When Jimmy Takter won the $437,000 Merrie Annabelle Stakes with his 2-year-old filly trotter Thatsnotmyname on Aug. 7 at the Meadowlands Racetrack, he might have felt like he finally captured his great white whale.    Several races later, he reeled in an even bigger fish.    That is because Takter’s Muscle Massive,…

  • Shad T-shirts are back

    Everyone loved this year’s Shad Festival T-shirts with the design by local artist Annelies Van Dommelen. In fact, the shirts sold out on the first day of the late April event. Those who didn’t get a chance to get one may do so now. A limited edition of the T-shirt (shown above) has been printed…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Batters up!

    Home run derby funds to be split between family and high school ball teams By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Who is Hillsborough’s home run champion?    The Hillsborough High School Diamond Club aims to find out who can hit a baseball or softball farthest while raising money for sports equipment and a local family who lost…

  • Letters to the editor

    HES rezoning plan reduces potential benefits By: centraljersey.com HILLSBOROUGH – Did you feel your wallet get pinched last Tuesday night? You probably knew your local tax dollars were paying police and teachers, but did you realize that the Township Committee was also using our tax dollars to enrich local landowners? Last week, the Township Committee…

  • Overruled board makes tower pick

    Tower By: Eileen Oldfield – Staff Writer Under orders from a judge, the zoning board chose a 90-foot flagless-flagpole design for a T-Mobile cell tower to be built on Kennedy Boulevard, despite the members finding none of the three options available to be particularly attractive. "If you say no to all of them, then they…

  • DWI checkpoints set to begin Friday

    By: centraljersey.com Hillsborough police will participate in the national campaign against drunk driving – known as "Over the limit, under arrest" – from Friday through Sept. 6. The department will conduct impaired driving checkpoints at various locations over the course of the program, as well as increase then number of officers on patrol. The goal…