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Robbinsville softball 10’s reach Final 4
By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer In pool play, the Robbinsville 10-year-old Little League All-Star softball team completely obliterated its competition as it as posted a flawless 3-0 mark and outscored its opponents 45-2 along the way. After defeating Cranbury-Plainsboro 23-0 in its tournament opener, Robbinsville crushed West Windsor 11-1 in five innings at Robbinsville on…
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$30M plan includes landfill expansion
By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer The county plans to expand the Resource Recovery Complex landfill and make updates to the composting facility located on the Florence-Mansfield border. Mary Pat Robbie, director of the county Department of Resource Conservation, said Monday that the $30 million bond ordinance approved at the July 9 freeholders’ meeting will be…
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Reader’s Voice: Wrong prescription for alarms
by Frank J. Chrinko Homeowners, business owners, retail establishments and others in South Brunswick who have burglar alarm systems are about to be robbed. Not by a burglar, but by the township. Unless it can be stopped, the Township Council plans to pass a new burglar alarm ordinance July 22. The proposed ordinance is onerous…
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Samuel P. Esposito
WW-P High School North student WEST WINDSOR — Samuel Phillips Esposito died Tuesday of accidental causes. He was 16. Born in Hermosa Beach, Calif., he lived in West Windsor for 15 years. He was a junior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and a member of the football team. He enjoyed playing the guitar,…
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Adel B. Imlay
BORDENTOWN Adel B. Imlay, 90, passed away Friday, July 11, at Compassionate Care Hospice of Trenton. Born in Chesterfield, she had lived in the Chesterfield/Bordentown area all of her life. She and her husband owned and operated an eatery known as “The Kennel” for many years in Bordentown Township. Daughter of the late Russell…
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Junior sleuths put new skills to work
By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer CHESTERFIELD With “blood” on the windowsill and muddy footprints by the open door of the crime scene, the two dozen participants of the first Chesterfield Junior Police Academy had their work cut out for them on Tuesday morning. Even though the blood was only ketchup and the burglary was…
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Cranbury to ask COAH for waiver
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer CRANBURY — The Township Committee approved a resolution Monday that allows the municipality to apply for an affordable housing waiver from the Council on Affordable Housing. The municipality will ask for the waiver because township officials have nearly completed a study that they say would refute the warehouse-to-job ratio used…
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Soprano hits all the right notes
Performer, lecturer discusses local life, love of Roosevelt and art By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer ROOSEVELT Hearing about a soprano opera singer may bring to mind the image of an unaccommodating prima donna willing to sing only in the grandest of theaters. But as a grand performer still willing to do little-known works in…
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Woman charged with taking cash donated to charity
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer Diane Visavati, 58, of Hillsborough, has been charged with stealing $184,875 from Catholic Charities in Bridegwater, where she had worked as a bookkeeper until an injury sidelined her from work earlier this year, according to the Somerset County prosecutor’s office. Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said Ms. Visavati was charged…
