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  • MANVILLE: Telling Twain’s tall tales

    MANVILLE: Telling Twain’s tall tales

    Actor David Kennedy’s portrayal of Mark Twain entertained a group at the Manville Senior Center. Staff photo by John Keating

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Orchestra’s new director to lead Sunday’s concert

    HILLSBOROUGH: Orchestra’s new director to lead Sunday’s concert

       For the first time in over 20 seasons, the Central Jersey Symphony will open its concert season with a new music director. Michael Avagliano, a New Jersey native and longtime Edison resident will lead the orchestra in its first performance of the 2008-09 season on at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Nash Theatre at Raritan…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Man charged with sexually assaulting girl

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — A Hightstown man is accused of sexually assaulting a child that was in his care while he lived in the Windsor Regency Apartments about seven years ago, and then later in Millstone.    Luis Quezada, 36, was charged Oct. 29 by township police with aggravated criminal sexual contact,…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Gov. Jon Corzine touts pharmaceutical companies

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Gov. Jon Corzine touts pharmaceutical companies

    Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski Gov. Jon Corzine listens to Barton Kamen, chief medical officer for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society during a visit to Wyeth Research on Ridge Road on Tuesday.

  • MANVILLE: Mustangs brace for Bound Brook challenge

    MANVILLE: Mustangs brace for Bound Brook challenge

    Rivals to meet for 51st time by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    This year’s Manville-Bound Brook high school football game will have a different flavor than many of the past in this great Group 1 rivalry.    As the Mustangs and Crusaders prepare to meet for the 51st time, there are many questions looming. When will the…

  • Nunzio E. Pisani

       MONROE TOWNSHIP — Nunzio E. Pisani, 89, died Monday at the Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Born in New York City, Mr. Pisani was raised in Sayville, Long Island, N.Y., and lived there until moving to Hightstown in 1968. He was a resident of the Rossmoor community in Monroe Township since…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikings defeat Pennsauken for first football playoff win

    By Ken Weingartner, Sports Writer    It might be cliché to compare the South Brunswick High football team’s win over Pennsauken in the opening round of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV playoffs to a boxing match, but it also would be appropriate.    The Vikings needed to fight off the ropes in the early going, counter-punched…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikes utterly awesome at states

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    One in the Top 10, two in the Top 20 and three in the Top 25 told the individual tale for the South Brunswick High gymnastics team.    And six was the key number for the team itself.    That’s where the Vikings finished in last weekend’s NJSIAA State Championship Meet, as…