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  • Things to Do

    Oct. 30    Parent Academy: 7 to 8:30 p.m., Crossroads North Middle School. Interactive parent workshop, Communicating with Your Children’s Teachers. Pre-register at www.sbschools.org (click on South Brunswick Parent Academy) or e-mail [email protected]. Include name, telephone, e-mail address, child’s grade and ages of any children that may require childcare. Nov. 1    Scouting for Food: Boy Scouts…

  • AHS field hockey team improving at right time

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Mary Ellen McCarthy made sure not to get too excited about her team’s six-game winning streak. After all, the most important games on the schedule are clearly the ones left to be played.     The Allentown High field hockey team was scheduled to face Hopewell Valley in a Mercer…

  • School violence report goal: ‘We want zero’

    By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    HILLSBOROUGH — Incidents of violence and vandalism in district schools went up 45 percent in the 2007-08 school year, according to the district’s annual violence and vandalism report.    But as District Superintendent Edward Forsthoffer noted after presenting the report at the Board of Education’s Oct. 20 meeting, the numbers are…

  • EDITORIAL: Towns could feel impact of police ruling

       In a stunning defeat for Gov. Jon Corzine this past week, the Council on State Mandates declared “null, void and unenforceable” his administration’s plan to make 89 towns across the state pay part of the cost of State Police protection.    In an effort to trim the state budget, the governor wanted the towns to pay…

  • Stranger alert gets called off

    By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Police have determined that a suspected stranger incident last week was an altruistic miscommunication.    At 7:45 a.m. Oct. 21, Robbinsville police issued a “stranger alert” after a Pond Road Middle School student was approached by a man in a white pickup truck on Warrior Way in the Windswept…

  • Monroe approves athletic center

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — Sports fanatics will be happy to hear that the township Planning Board gave final approval for the construction of a 105-square-foot indoor and outdoor multisports center.    The Monroe 33 Tennis, Basketball and Sports Center is expected to be built on an approximately 12-acre site on Perrineville Road by…

  • In state of denial domestic violence

    Arthur Roedel, Monmouth Junction    This past month, my beloved Monmouth Mobile Home Park experienced a tragedy of epic proportions. Although it was not the criminal equivalent of a drive by shooting or a home invasion it was nonetheless incredibly sad. It was incident of domestic violence that at once impacted three of the families in…

  • James W. Phillips

       James W. Phillips, 94, died Thursday, Oct. 23, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in North Carolina, he lived and worked on a farm in South Jersey before moving to Jamesburg, where he lived for 23 years, and then to Hagerstown, Md. He returned to Dayton, in South Brunswick, where he…

  • SBA officials talk up small business options on town tour

    SBA officials talk up small business options on town tour

    An employee at Manville Tattoos speaks to James Kocsi (center), district director of the Small Business Administration, and Larry Jenkins, regional director of the Small Business Development Center at Raritan Valley Community College, during Monday’s walking tour. Staff photo by Audrey Levine