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  • HILLSBOROUGH: TV show builds a local ‘Mancave’

    HILLSBOROUGH: TV show builds a local ‘Mancave’

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  • Budget burdens the future

    John G. O’Sullivan, of Monmouth Junction     Let me paraphrase Tennyson.    Into the Valley of Debt rode the taxpayers of South Brunswick.    Recently the South Brunswick Township Council passed a $49 million budget, which they declared “difficult,” but required deferring $1.3 million in pension payments to be repaid beginning in 2012. This is spend now,…

  • EAST WINDSOR: A spry ‘lady of leisure’

    Township woman reflects on her century By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Annabel Wyhnanez has seen a lot of changes in the East Windsor-Hightstown area throughout her lifetime.    Landmarks have come and gone, new roads have been built, the population has exploded and the community has transformed from farmland to suburbia.    However, she…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter

       A Chicken Holiday worker reported that someone stole his bicycle while it was parked behind the business on Triangle Road between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. July 1.    The bicycle was valued at $70.    Police made 10 arrests for underage consumption of alcohol after responding to a noise complaint on Columbia Commons at 11:09 p.m. June…

  • Allentown Sing to Win Tickets to Taylor Swift in Concert

    By C. Volpe Verizon FiOS Announces Appearances for Online Karaoke Contest  Newark, N.J. – Listen up, Taylor Swift fans. Here’s your opportunity to show off your vocal chops and win great prizes at the same time.   Verizon FiOS is giving away two tickets to the country superstar’s upcoming Fearless tour stop at Madison Square Garden in…

  • MANVILLE: Man pleads guilty to conspiring to commit fraud in mall cleanup

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    A seventh person has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to participating in a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to commit fraud against the federal Environmental Protection Agency at the designated Federal Creosote Superfund site at Rustic Mall, according to recently published reports.    Robert Griffiths — a former executive with Bennett…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Arts festival expands artists’ opportunities

    By Reem Nasr, Staff Writer    Two Mountain View Plaza business owners are organizing a Sunday afternoon arts event for their Route 206 shopping center.    A Summer Arts Festival will take place at the Plaza shopping center from 4 to 8 p.m. July 19. Sponsored by the Mountain View Plaza Merchants Association, the festival is a…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Residents’ concerns spur change to plan

    Use of road out for retail/office proposal By Jaclyn D’Auria, Special Writer    EAST WINDSOR — A passionate plea by an Avon Drive West resident holding a petition signed by almost 300 residents resulted this week in the elimination of plans to allow that road to be used for access for a future office/retail complex.    ”We…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Road project expands

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council took steps this week toward expanding an improvement project planned for Hickory Corner Road, approving additional engineering services for the work.    The project originally had called for road resurfacing on Hickory Corner Road between Route 130 and Oak Creek Road along with additional improvements…