Category: archives
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Gov. Corzine explains ethics reform package; credits Mercer
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s proposed ethics reform package reaches beyond the state and legislative levels to county offices and local governments because the challenges of avoiding insider deals, influence peddling and other ethical lapses “come more at the local level than at the state level,” the governor said in a…
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Boley likes rolling with the long races
By John Beisser, Sports Writer Uncommonly bright and mature, Matt Boley is a student-athlete in every sense of the term. The South Brunswick High senior is an A student and a top-notch runner who excels at winter and spring track. In the fall, it’s cross country season, his favorite time of the year. ”I’m just…
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Connie Kishyk
Connie Kishyk, 83, died Thursday, Sept. 25, surrounded by family and friends. She was born Dec. 23, 1925, in Sparta, Greece, the daughter the late Garry and Olga Karounos. She was the oldest of five siblings. Her husband, Steven Kishyk, her beloved grandson, Stephen, and her daughter-in-law, Therese, are deceased. She is survived by her…
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Passing the (Olympic) torch
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH — A combination of competitive spirits, good grades and community service netted two Hillsborough athletes scholarships and the chance to hobnob with former Olympic sports stars. Hillsborough High School seniors Jordan Magath and Kyle Magliaro received scholarships through the Joetta Clark Diggs Sports Foundation at the organization’s annual Sports…
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Lawrence still awaits plans for assisted living facility
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The would-be developer of an assisted living facility on the site of the historic William Gulick House, on the corner of Route 206 and Province Line Road, has promised to submit revised plans for the project. But those plans — which were to have been submitted shortly, according to Steven…
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Nicholas M. Saggese
Nicholas M. Saggese, 79, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick. Mr. Saggese was born in East New York, Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised his family in Ozone Park, Queens, N.Y., where he lived for many years before moving to Rossmoor in 1996. He served in the U.S. Army during…
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Alfred Frederick DeStefano
LAWRENCEVILLE – Alfred Frederick DeStefano died Sept. 21 at the Fuld campus of the Capital Health System in Trenton. Born in the 1920s, he was raised in Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and survived polio as a child. He worked for the Works Progress Administration and, although he could not be enlisted in the armed…
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Dora Cecile Seyfarth Verbeyst, 85, of Mount Rose
Dora Cecile Seyfarth Verbeyst, 85, of Mount Rose in Hopewell Township died September 27, 2008 at home surrounded by her loving family. Born in the Princeton Hospital, she was the daughter of Mathilde Rousseau Seyfarth and Jacob Seyfarth. Married for fifty-nine years to the late Louis Verbeyst, she and her husband owned and operated Verbeyst…
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Marion (Kuhn) Sigle
Marion (Kuhn) Sigle, 87, died Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hosptial in New Brunswick. Ms. Sigle was born and raised in East Brunswick and was a lifelong resident of Middlesex County, with the exception of 10 years she spent in DeRuyter, N.Y., before moving to Monroe in 1994. She was a former…
