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  • Robbinsville girls win C.J. Group I track title

    Scott, Flynn and Lachman victorious in individual events By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     The Robbinsville High School girls’ winter track team won the Central Jersey Group I Sectional Championship while competing at Toms River this past weekend.     The Robbinsville girls won the Central Jersey Group I title with 73.5 points (runner up Shore…

  • MANVILLE: Updated Christ the King School touted during special week

    MANVILLE: Updated Christ the King School touted during special week

    The Rev. Boguslaw Augustyn shows his skills on the court, during a rally for Catholic Schools Week in January. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikings track down CJ IV crown

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    South Brunswick High girls track and field coach Stefan Moorhead makes two good points when discussing his team’s first NJSIAA Group IV Indoor Championship.    First, he notes that it is only the second year they have had indoor groups, so not many SBHS teams of the past have had a…

  • Include arts, culture in recovery act

    Helene Peters, Roosevelt Avenue    As Congress considers the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the arts and culture sector must be included.    The arts are essential to the health and vitality of our communities. They enhance community development; spur urban renewal; attract new businesses; draw tourism dollars; and create an environment that attracts skilled, educated workers…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council tables board of health decision

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    The Township Council tabled an ordinance Tuesday that would have created an autonomous board of health in South Brunswick.    The plan would involve abolishing the Advisory Board of Health, which reports to the council six times a year, in order to give an autonomous board of health power to create…

  • MONROE: Car chase ends in Monroe

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    A high-speed chase involving state police and local authorities ended in a Monroe backyard Saturday after two suspects driving a stolen vehicle crashed into a tree and fled the scene.    At 1:24 p.m. a New Jersey State Police trooper spotted a 1994 Buick Century traveling at a high rate of…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Fashionable fundraiser to help Project Graduation

    HILLSBOROUGH: Fashionable fundraiser to help Project Graduation

    High school students Leah Kimmelman and Tara Lindsman model two of the dresses donated for the Project Graduation dress sale. Photo courtesy of Robin Kimmelman

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Student food drive helps less fortunate

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    With the troubled economy creating greater need throughout the country, some students at South Brunswick High School have stepped up to help the less fortunate in Middlesex County.    But the student volunteers need the help of South Brunswick residents to bring aid to those who need it most.    As part…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Twenty jobs, five top cops, seen as cut in merger study

    Combined trash collection costs of two towns high, report says By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    The equivalent of 20 full-time municipal employees, including five police officers, would lose their jobs under the consolidation of Hightstown and East Windsor envisioned in a recently released consultant’s study.    And those cuts eventually would render a potential savings of…