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  • Ensemble La Fiocco Concert April 4, 2009
  • HIGHTSTOWN: EDC meeting habots, influence spur sharp words

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer        HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council has put the brakes on a proposal that would reduce the number of required meetings of the ever-increasingly controversial Economic Development Committee.        The ordinance — which the council voted 4-2 against introducing March 2 — would have changed the committee’s bylaws so that…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Borough eyes township for EMS in future

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Mayor Bob Patten is asking East Windsor to include the borough in its next private contract for emergency medical services while fellow Republican and Councilman Mike Theokas has called the current arrangement with Robbinsville a “bad deal.”    Prompted by the mayor, Borough Administrator Candace Gallagher told the council…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: EW man sentenced for computer crime

    By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor     TRENTON — One of three East Windsor men charged with scrawling anti- Semitic and profane graffiti on monuments and streets signs in the township, Hightstown and Roosevelt will be subject to three years of probation and be required to make full restitution.     Nicholas Kurahara was accepted into a…

  • SPRINGFIELD: Co-workers charged in farm slayings

    SPRINGFIELD: Co-workers charged in farm slayings

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    SPRINGFIELD — Two farm workers have been charged in what authorities have described as the “grisly slayings” of two co-workers at a local horse farm, officials announced Wednesday.     Carlos Reyes, 41, was charged March 6 with two counts of knowing and purposeful murder. His brother Cesar Reyes, 38, was…

  • This Week’s Central Jersey Events

    STAGE Actors’ NET of Bucks County, The Heritage Center, 635 N. Delmorr Ave., Morrisville, Pa., The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, through March 15, Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 6 p.m., $20, $17 seniors (appropriate for age 13 and up); (215) 295-3694; www.brownpapertickets.com Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St., Phila., My Name is Asher Lev…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Patten recommends 4-day work week

    That and no council pay don’t go over By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Mayor Bob Patten was rebuffed by the members of the Borough Council when he challenged them to decline their salaries to help close a $510,000 borough shortfall.    The mayor made his challenge as he distributed a list of considerations for…

  • SPRINGFIELD: Co-workers charged in farm slayings

    SPRINGFIELD: Co-workers charged in farm slayings

    Cesar Reyes, 38, was charged March 6 as a material witness in the murder of two of his coworkers

  • SPRINGFIELD: Co-workers charged in farm slayings

    SPRINGFIELD: Co-workers charged in farm slayings

    Carlos Reyes, 41, was charged March 6 with two counts of knowing and purposeful murder