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  • Injured cop meets his rescuers

    Township honors 6 area samaritans By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The night Officer Paul Wille’s patrol car struck a utility pole and tree he couldn’t see the faces of the six people who pulled him out of the vehicle seconds before it burst into flames.    ”I heard them, but I couldn’t turn…

  • Local woman on Obama’s transition team

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Township resident and state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson will be part of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, according to a DEP spokeswoman.    Ms. Jackson will be on the energy and natural resources transition team, said DEP spokeswoman Elaine Makatura confirmed this week. There…

  • Robin Road resident taken into custody after standoff

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    HILLSBOROUGH — A Robin Road resident was transported to Somerset Medical Center for evaluation today (Thursday) after a two-and-a-half hour standoff in his home that later resulted in the seizure of eight weapons.    Police responded to a call at 2:54 a.m. from the wife of 55-year-old Richard Cooper that he…

  • We’re brainwashed against firearms

    Mike Malinics of Ewing To the editor:     We’ve been brainwashed. There are a lot of people in New Jersey with open minds and open eyes, but the majority of us have been mentally conditioned to be afraid of guns. The media in general have done an excellent job of demonizing firearms and the law-abiding…

  • Monroe close to new superintendent

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — The search for a new superintendent for the Monroe school district is nearing an end as the Board of Education conducted interviews with its final two candidates during a closed meeting Tuesday.    ”The board by consensus has picked a final candidate and we’re entering into contract negotiations with…

  • Cardinals lose in first round

    FOOTBALL By Tim Falls, Sports Editor    The Lawrence High School football team lost in the first round of the NJISAA Group III Central Jersey playoffs again.    It was a disheartening and all too familiar story for the Cardinals, who have also lost in the first round the past four years.    Still Lawrence should take pride…

  • Telling Twain’s tall tales

    Telling Twain’s tall tales

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    MANVILLE — He stood at the front of the room at the Senior Center Tuesday, wearing a white shirt and vest; white pants and shoes; and a black bow at his collar. His white wig and real white mustache completed the ensemble.    As the crowd of about 11 people looked…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       Joseph Crawford, 49, of Oxford Place, was charged with driving while intoxicated, maintenance of lamps, failure to drive properly in marked lanes and driving without a license after he was pulled over for swerving across the center line and then into the shoulder on Route 206, as well as driving with a broken head lamp,…

  • Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house

    Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house

    The Bachman-Wilson House in Millstone House was in need of substantial restoration when the Tarantinos purchased it in 1988. Photo by William Taylor