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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…

  • 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…

  • Making a ‘surreal’ return to classrooms

    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…

  • Making a ‘surreal’ return to classrooms

    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

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…