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  • Township poised for zoning amendment to help new business building

    By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council seems poised to approve a zoning amendment for a six-month-old building on Route 33 in Twin Rivers, whose owner says the current designation is too restrictive.    John DeGeorge, the Brick-based developer who owns the single-story building, at the intersection of Probasco Road, requested…

  • Family grateful in time of loss

    Karen Lubbers and the family of Clinton E. Jobes, Bordentown To the editor: We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the many acts of kindness and sympathy shown to us through your cards, visits, phone calls and donations to Hospice.    It is a very difficult time when a family faces the loss of…

  • EDITORIAL: MYAL helps local athletes chase dreams

       It’s not easy being part of Manville’s local sports scene — most of the time, you’re battling bigger programs, with better funding and more participants.    Those facts account for much of Manville’s varsity struggles in the highly competitive Skyland Conference.    This makes some residents very discouraged about local sports, but we think they’re missing the…

  • MOST THINGS CONSIDERED: Happiness may be finding the right lid for your ‘pot’

    By Minx McCloud Special Writer    I just attended my high school class reunion – 40 years! Woo-hoo! And we all look the same as we did in high school (cough) …    But this column is not about the reunion — that will follow in a few weeks. This column is about love.    Forty years ago,…

  • Critical time for critical issues

    By Study of police consolidation to proceed, with state funding The state has awarded Hightstown a grant to fully fund the cost of a study to determine if East Windsor should take over police duties in the borough.    That study is expected to proceed immediately and take close to four months to complete.    Department of…

  • Frances M. Ferris

       MANCHESTER — Frances M. Ferris, 89, of Whiting died Sunday, July 6, in Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills.    She was born in Milltown and had resided in Bordentown and Cape May before moving to Whiting 12 years ago.    The mother of the late Jimmy Ferris, she is survived by her husband of…

  • Dispatches: A matter of race mattering

    by Hank Kalet, Managing Editor    The nomination of the first African-American candidate for president is underscoring a racial divide that exists in this country.    A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted over the weekend and released Tuesday shows that the views about the candidates — in particular, Barack Obama — differ by race.    ”More than…

  • Post 401 wins South title, takes aim on county crown

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    It became official last Wednesday, and in a most impressive fashion.    The South Brunswick Post 401 baseball team clinched the South Division of the Middlesex County American Legion Baseball League by rolling to a 6-2 victory over Edison.    The North Division champ, Edison was 18-0 in county play before Post…

  • Drunk driving charges filed

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Two men in one car were charged with driving while intoxicated on July 10 after police saw them switching seats immediately after the car was pulled over.    Abelardo Germain Magana-Tiul, 32, was stopped at 11:44 p.m. in the Best Buy parking lot on Route 1 after Sgt. Jeffery Kapiscak observed…