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  • EAST WINDSOR: ‘Sesame Street’ actress hit by car on Route 130

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — A township resident and cast member of the iconic children’s television show “Sesame Street” was hospitalized Tuesday night with head and leg injuries after she was hit by car while crossing Route 130, according to township police.    Loretta Long, 71, of Einstein Way, was taken to Capital…

  • LAWRENCE: Local advocate reflects on immigration bill defeat

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     After seven years of debate, a bill that would extend in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who graduate from a New Jersey high school did not make it through the lame-duck session of the state Senate and then on to the state Assembly.     The bill passed through committees in…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: State cost increases raise local budget concerns

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The township is looking at finding ways to cut costs in other areas to balance increased state costs, Finance Chairman Carl Suraci said Tuesday.    The township Finance Committee recently held its first meeting to discuss the 2010 budget and Mr. Suraci said during Tuesday’s Township Committtee meeting that certain state…

  • LAWRENCE: $1.4M grant to provide kids with computers

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     The township school district has received a $1.4 million federal technology grant to put “mobile computing devices” into the hands of every sixth-grader at the Lawrence Intermediate School next year.     The Lawrence school district is one of 10 districts in the state that received a Teaching and Learning…

  • Mercer County Holocaust Center Moves to New Home at MCCC

    Mercer County Holocaust Center Moves to New Home at MCCC

    By Wendy Humphrey West Windsor, N.J. — A ceremony for the rededication of the Mercer County Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center was held Jan. 27 outside the center’s new home on the second floor of the Mercer County Community College Library Building. The move followed a major college renovation project. Approximately 60 people gathered for the somber,…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter from the Feb. 11 edition

    Rider University student David C. Myslinski, 18, of Lansdale, Pa., was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after he was found to have a metal pipe containing marijuana residue in his Kroner Dorm room at 1:44 a.m. Feb. 5, police said. He was released on a summons.     A Lawrence resident reported the theft of…

  • FLEMINGTON: Hospital to host colon exhibit

    Visitors can take a journey through The Colossal Colon® at the center, March 1-5    In recognition and awareness of colorectal cancer, Hunterdon Medical Center will host The Colossal Colon® exhibit, an oversized model of a human colon that is 40 feet long and 4 feet tall.    The Colossal Colon® is an educational tool unlike any…

  • MCCC Students Are Going to Italy

    MCCC Students Are Going to Italy

    Leading the trip to Italy are faculty members, from left, Andrea Lynch, Chris dePagnier and Marilyn Dietrich.

  • LAWRENCE: At least two incumbents plan run for board seats

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Two of the three incumbent school board members whose terms are expiring will run in the April 20 annual board election, but the third member is weighing his options.     Laura Waters and Leon Kaplan said they are planning to seek a third term on the school board, but…