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  • Campaign 08: Let the games begin for real

       Let the games begin.    No, not the Olympic Games. They’re history.    Not the Friday night high school football games, the Thursday-through-Saturday college games or the Sunday and Monday night NFL games. They’re mere spectator sports.    Not even the blatant gamesmanship of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. They’re just the exhibition season, the hype that…

  • PLUMSTED: Packing the Sack for needy students

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    PLUMSTED — Donating school supplies for students in need is not a new effort here.    The New Egypt MOMS Club has held a supply drive for the past five years, known as Pack the Sack.    This year, the club’s realized goal was to fill backpacks for 42 students of…

  • MILLSTONE: Miller rides Lucky Jim to victory

    By Ken Weingartner, Special Writer     MILLSTONE – Luck had nothing to do with it. Lucky Jim is simply good.     Lucky Jim won Saturday’s $600,000 Breeders Crown Trot at the Meadowlands Racetrack by 1½ lengths over Arch Madness. It was Lucky Jim’s 17th victory in 18 races this year and pushed his seasonal earnings…

  • Corzine plan for mortgages needs study

       Gov. Jon Corzine’s detractors (and there seem to be a great many these days) are having a field day bashing New Jersey’s chief executive on any number of fronts.    After drowning his ambitious financial restructuring plan in a torrent of outrage last summer, they jumped all over the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s more recent, scaled-down…

  • Let’s not fuel our unhealthy addiction

       It was inevitable, we suppose, that as soon as the price of gasoline hit $4 a gallon, all the tired old arguments for opening up the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of New Jersey to oil drilling would be trotted out again.    And it was inevitable, especially with sticker shock at the pump coinciding…

  • CRANBURY: PNC says ‘no’ to township on discount for building purchase

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Discussions over converting the PNC bank building into a library-community center have come to a standstill after representatives of the bank informed local officials that they were not prepared to donate the building or come down on the price.    ”When we went to set up this phone call,…

  • CRANBURY: New rules for road work

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The Police Department soon will have a broader scope of authority when it comes to roadwork in the township as a result of an ordinance the Township Committee passed Monday.    Committee members unanimously passed an ordinance that makes police an integral part of the traffic planning on maintenance…

  • Celebrating 50 Years of SU Football from Ernie Davis to Coach Marrone

    By: Pam Mulligan, President of the Central New Jersey Syracuse University Alumni Club Contact: Pam Mulligan – 908-472-0185 [email protected] August 25, 2009 For Immediate Release, Princeton, NJ Celebrating 50 Years of SU Football From Ernie Davis to Coach Doug Marroneabout the famed Syracuse running back who trampled racial barriers and in 1961 became the first…

  • PLUMSTED: Feral cat issue subject for new panel

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer     PLUMSTED — The township is hoping to reduce its feral cat population with the recent creation of a Feral Cat Trap-Neuter-Release Welfare Committee, according to Mayor Ron Dancer.     Plumsted is the first town in The Messenger- Press coverage area to establish such a committee.     The township…