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  • Sara H. Keenan

       UPPER FREEHOLD – Sara H. Keenan, 91, formerly of Hightstown, died Monday in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Robbinsville, she was a longtime area resident.    She retired from the East Windsor Regional School District in 1989 and was a member of St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church of Hightstown.    Daughter…

  • Aleta T. Washington Fleming

       EAST WINDSOR — Aleta T. Washington Fleming, 77, died Saturday at the St. Agnes Continuing Care Center in Philadelphia.    Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown, 320 N. Main St., Hightstown.    Cremation services will be private.    The viewing for family and friends will be held Saturday…

  • Raymond ‘Mickey’ Bickel

       YARDLEY, Pa. — Raymond H. “Mickey” Bickel, 65, died May 7.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he formerly lived in Hightstown, Parsippany and Ridgefield.    He was a corporal in the Army armored infantry, serving during the Vietnam War. He retired in 2007 from Wachovia Corp., where he was vice president of the Global Financial Institutions and…

  • Jerry Kopf

       HAMILTON — Jerry Kopf, of Hamilton Square, and formerly of Allentown and East Windsor, died May 5 at Compassionate Care Hospice in St. Francis Medical Center.    Born in Stalingrad, Russia, he came to America in 1948 with his family, where they settled in New York. He worked with his brother, Jay, and together they ran…

  • Virginia C. (Guerriero) Marra

    Virginia C. (Guerriero) Marra, 80, of Monroe, died Tuesday, May 20, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Ms. Marra was born in Italy, came to the United States in 1950, and settled in Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y., where she lived for 46 years before moving to The Ponds in 1998. She was…

  • Neighbor approves hotel

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    MONROE — The South Brunswick Township Zoning Board approved plans for a proposed hotel straddling the township’s border with Monroe on May 1.    Plans from Hotel Investors, LLC call for the construction of a four-story, 106-room Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel on a 2.872-acre lot that extends over the municipal…

  • Cranbury nixes PNC Bank discussion

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The Township Committee decided Monday that it won’t consider buying the PNC Bank building on North Main Street.    The committee took an informal straw poll in which two of the five committee members voted against continuing the discussion.    Mayor David Stout said the vote showed the committee didn’t…

  • Bill would ease process used for road improvements

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer     Some local officials say they support a proposal that would allow them to bypass approval from the state Department of Transportation in order to make local traffic improvements.    Under the bill that’s pending in state Legislature, counties and municipalities’ would be able to designate parking restrictions, install stoplights and crosswalks,…

  • Apartment plan gets favorable reaction

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Township officials and concerned residents have looked favorably upon the return of a longtime residential development plan that now calls for 84 apartments on One Mile Road.    Developer Joseph Stern, owner of the Cranbury-based Eastern Properties, presented a concept plan for Wyncrest Commons to the zoning board…