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  • Black bear spotted in Cranbury

    Black bear spotted in Cranbury

    A bear cub strolls through the backyard of Janet Paxton. Photo by Janet Paxton.

  • Chesterfield Chatter

       The Chesterfield Township Committee meeting will be held 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Chesterfield Township Municipal Building. For more information call 298-2311 or visit the township Web site at www.chesterfieldtwp.com. * * *    The Chesterfield Township Emergency Squad meeting will be held 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, at the Chesterfield Township Emergency Squad Building. *…

  • Class of 2008 bids farewell to SBHS

    Class of 2008 bids farewell to SBHS

    Staff photo by John Keating Members of the chorus sing the alma mater, "Shades of Black and Gold," to open the ceremony.

  • Custom car and truck shop moves to South Brunswick

    Custom car and truck shop moves to South Brunswick

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    It is not every day that most people get to see a gigantic yellow monster truck, or a 1960s Chevrolet Impala.    The staff of the new Krazy House Customs car shop on Route 1 are not most people though, and those are just two of the many cars they get…

  • Surplus critique is bad budgeting

       For years, South Brunswick has been treated to the biennial plaint that the use of surplus to stabilize the municipal property tax will result in sure fiscal doom. After more than ten years of Democratic budgets with stable municipal property taxes and recurring regeneration of the surplus account, one would think that the issue would…

  • Monroe graduates say farewell

    Monroe graduates say farewell

    Class president Nicole Ragucci addresses the class. Photo by Dennis Symons Jr.

  • Mercer opens enrollment for Master Gardener training

       Mercer County residents with an interest in horticulture are invited to enroll in the Master Gardener Volunteer Training Program for 2009.    The 21-week training program, which is offered through Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County, will begin at the end of September and continue into March.    The Master Gardener program was created to meet an…

  • ‘Life is not breakfast in bed’

    ‘Life is not breakfast in bed’

    Students celebrate their graduation. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • Efstratios M. Banis

       BORDENTOWN — Efstratios M. Banis, 83, died June 18 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton.    He was born Oct. 4, 1924, in Mytiline, Greece. After serving in the Greek Army, he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil. His bride, the late Maria Mamolou Banis, joined him in Brazil. Together they lived in Brazil for…