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  • Cornerstone Music Studios Offers Summer Rock Band Session

    By Holly Deitz ATTENTION ALL ROCKERS!!!     Cornerstone Music at Millstone is ready to begin jammin’ again with our Summer Rock Band Session.  New for the Summer — we are holding short auditions and creating two separate groups based on skill level and band chemistry.   Don’t worry, it’s real informal and more of an audition practice than…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Going to bat for Sean

    ROBBINSVILLE: Going to bat for Sean

    Robbinsville residents Sean Nemazie (left) and his younger brother, Tim, at the JFK Hartwyck rehabilitation center in Edison, where Sean continues to make progress in his recovery from a severe brain injury he suffered in an automobile crash seven months ago.

  • MONROE: Pay for cutting down 100-year-old tree

    Maria Prato, Staff Writer    MONROE — The township could seek compensation from a local developer after a longtime Monroe resident was chopped down in the prime of life — an oak tree standing 100 feet tall at the Greenbriar at Stonebridge, a retirement property near Federal Road.    Laurie Winters, a neighbor of the property, said…

  • CRANBURY: Maplewood residents want former PNC hearing delayed

    Maria Prato, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Dozens of Maplewood Drive residents are voicing their concerns over traffic and safety issues that have come to light during a major site plan application for the former Main Street PNC bank property.    Sweetwater Construction Company was set to present its application to the township’s Planning Board on Thursday,…

  • CRANBURY: Fireman active for 62 years

    CRANBURY: Fireman active for 62 years

    Maria Prato, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Tom Haggerty sat back, put his feet up and, with one eye cocked open, showed off his misshapen right arm.    ”I caught it in a machine, and I was holding it together myself,” the 91-year-old Cranbury resident said as he demonstrated its limited mobility. “The bones from my leg…

  • CRANBURY: Fireman active for 62 years

    CRANBURY: Fireman active for 62 years

    Tom Haggerty has been a part of the Cranbury Fire Company for 62 years; longer than the 1954 Dodge firetruck he’s standing by.

  • Local advocate Kelly Rouba attends NASDAQ opening bell ceremony

    Local advocate Kelly Rouba attends NASDAQ opening bell ceremony

    By Kelly Rouba Kelly Rouba, of Hamilton, participated in NASDAQ’s opening bell ceremony in Times Square on Thursday, July 8, in honor of Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month. Ms. Rouba, who was diagnosed with the disease at age 2, is now a national spokesperson and Board member for the Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF). At the…

  • CRANBURY: Museum to display ‘Family Heirlooms’

    Maria Prato, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — They’ve been tucked away in a closet or gathering dust on a shelf, perhaps as part of a great aunt’s wardrobe or in a neighbor’s kitchen or a grandmother’s attic.    But these local family heirlooms all have one thing in common: They made their way to The Cranbury Museum.…

  • Monroe wants compensation for removal of 100-year-old tree

    By: Maria Prato – Staff Writer MONROE – The township could seek compensation from a local developer after a longtime Monroe resident was chopped down in the prime of life – an oak tree standing 100 feet tall at the Greenbriar at Stonebridge, a retirement property near Federal Road. Laurie Winters, a neighbor of the…