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  • ROBBINSVILLE: Roma’s plan for mixed use building prompts concerns

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — A plan for a retail/office building next door to the Roma Bank headquarters on Route 33 will have to come back before the Planning Board due to concerns board members and residents have over the traffic it might create and the amount of buffering between the site and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Board appoints ARIS principal

    HILLSBOROUGH: Board appoints ARIS principal

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer HMS’s Carey to move after first of the year    He may not start the job until after the new year, but newly appointed Auten Road Intermediate School Principal Christopher Carey already has begun meeting with staff in an effort to get to know his new environment.    At its regular meeting…

  • FLORENCE: Football team edged in CJ Group I playoff opener

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     A little over a week after putting the Florence High School football team into the state playoffs with a last-second field goal, Dakota Benish desperately wanted another chance to play the role of hero.     It never came.     Florence passed on a field goal try in the first…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Boys win Group I cross country title

    Raven girls place second By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     The members of the Robbinsville High School boys’ cross country team earned their first state title while competing in the Group I championships, held this past Saturday at Holmdel Park.     Robbinsville topped the 20-team field with 78 points, well ahead of second-place Metuchen (116…

  • MANVILLE: A life-saving lesson

    MANVILLE: A life-saving lesson

    Using the squad’s extrication equipment, the equipment manufacturer showed members how to safely rip through a vehicle after an accident. Photos courtesy of Melissa Reilley

  • MANVILLE: Mustangs win consolation game

    By John Beisser, Special Writer    If you’re going to settle for a consolation game, you might as well win it and that’s exactly what the Manville High football team did, blanking Point Pleasant Beach, 23-0, in a rain-soaked game in Manville last Friday night.    The Mustangs fell short in their bid to qualify for the…

  • Macay, Carbone become SBHS history makers

    By Ken Weingartner, Special Writer    Best friends were best.    Jess Macay and Lindsay Carbone made history last weekend for South Brunswick High with top-five finishes in the all-around competition at the NJSIAA Gymnastic Championships at Montgomery. Macay, a senior, finished tied for second place while Carbone, a sophomore, was tied for fourth.    Prior to this…

  • CRANBURY: Remnants of holidays past

    CRANBURY: Remnants of holidays past

    Staff photo by John Keating These toy soldiers made by Grey Iron Casting Co., were teh only 3-3/4-inch cast-iron soldiers made.

  • CRANBURY: Remnants of holidays past

    CRANBURY: Remnants of holidays past

    Cranbury Museum exhibit focuses on generations of children’s toys By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Curators of Cranbury Museum’s latest exhibition, “Under the Tree: Toys of Christmas Past,” are hoping the holiday-inspired show draws visitors, both young and old, to share in a timeless pastime.    ”We tried to make it appeal to a child…