Category: archives
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Motorcycle driver treated at hospital and released
Vic Monaco, Managing Editor EAST WINDSOR — A motorcycle driver from Browns Mills man received medical treatment after an accident on Mercer Street near Airport Road. Township police said Robert Michaelson, 57, was traveling east at 2:33 p.m. Aug. 29 when, in attempting to avoid a vehicle that was exiting a driveway, he hit the…
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Police Beat
Staff report Hightstown Zenon Kaczmarck, 46, of Farrington Drive, East Windsor, was charged Saturday with driving while intoxicated with children in the vehicle, endangering the welfare of a child and numerous related charges. Police said they stopped Mr. Kaczmarck at 8:54 p.m. on Franklin Street after he ran a red light at Maxwell Avenue and…
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Making a ‘surreal’ return to classrooms
By Mary Ellen Zangara Special Writer They say you can’t go home again, but you can go back to your old classroom again even if it’s not as a student, but as a newly minted teacher. Just ask Weston kindergarten teacher and alumna Alicia Mathewson, of Manville. She will be the new…
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Making a ‘surreal’ return to classrooms
New kindergarten teacher Alicia Mathewson is one of 16 teachers in the district who attended the same schools they now work in. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara
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Police chief to offer crime prevention tips at Cranbury Day
By Maria Prato-Gaines CRANBURY — While a recent string of burglaries has subsided, local law enforcement plans to use Cranbury Day to organize residents to protect themselves against future break-ins. Police Chief Ed Kahler will host a presentation on crime prevention and home security at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Cranbury School cafeteria,…
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Elnora Marie Rinkus
EWING Elnora Marie Rinkus, 81, died Aug. 22 after a long illness. Born in Trenton, she lived in Ewing the past 20 years. She retired in 1999 after more than 30 years as a decorator for both Lazlo Ispanky/Goebel and Boehm porcelain companies. Predeceased by husband John W. Rinkus Jr. and her son, John…
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Golf outing to benefit effort to open a community center
By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer EAST WINDSOR The township’s Economic Development Committee will host a charity golf tournament next month to benefit the formation of a community center in East Windsor. Proceeds from the event which will take place noon, Sept. 25, at the Peddie Golf Course are going to the…
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Blaze guts townhouses in borough
By Maria Prato-Gaines JAMESBURG With her trembling, soot-covered finger, Jean Zinn stood at the front entrance of her Stoneyhill Road residence Wednesday, pointing out her two-bedroom townhouse that had been reduced to ashes only one day ago. A ceramic volcano, one family photo, a gold necklace, a set of car keys and a couple…
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Patten files complaint; recall leader unfazed
Big petition push planned this weekend By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor HIGHTSTOWN J.P. Gibbons had hoped his first week of circulating a mayoral recall petition would be all about signatures. Mayor Bob Patten tried to make it about signs and sanctions. The two-term mayor filed a complaint Aug. 22 with the New Jersey Election…
