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  • Registration opens for Mercer County Community College

    WEST WINDSOR — Registration has begun for the Spring semester at Mercer County Community College. Most credit classes will start on Tuesday, Jan. 22. In addition to the 15-week semester, sessions of 10, seven and five weeks will be offered, with later starting dates. Mercer’s classes meet days, evenings and weekends on both the West…

  • Thomas W. Carroll

       EAST WINDSOR — Thomas W. Carroll, 16, died Tuesday at home.    Born in Princeton, he was a lifelong East Windsor resident.    ”Tommy” was attending Hightstown High School, where he was a member of the junior varsity wrestling team in his sophomore year. He had been involved in the HEWYL Little League. He was a Yankees…

  • Library News

       The South Brunswick Public Library is located at 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction. Contact information for the following announcements, unless otherwise noted, is 732-329-4000, 7286.    Dedication ceremony and reception: Dedication and installation of the donated George Segal sculpture, “Couple Against a Gray Wall,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6. The program will also show the…

  • Setting the agenda: Jamesburg organizations prepare for a busy 2008

       JAMESBURG — With the holidays over and the new year here, many borough groups are reflecting back and looking ahead.    With 2008 just a few days old, groups such as the Recreation Department, Jamesburg Civic Association and the Jamesburg Civic Association discussed their goals for the upcoming year with The Cranbury Press. Civic Association    Helping…

  • Eileen Helen Aprile

       ENGLISHTOWN — Eileen Helen Aprile, 60, died Dec. 27 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold.    Born in Perth Amboy, she lived in Hightstown and Englishtown most of her life. Ms. Aprile was employed in housekeeping at Meadow Lakes Presbyterian Home in Hightstown for 15 years. Previously she and her late husband, John, owned the 222 Truckstop…

  • Dancing by the Peddie Lake

       The winter sessions of “Dancing by the Peddie Lake” dance classes will being on Thursday, Jan. 10, and will be held at 112 Etra Road in Hightstown.    The classes will offer instruction in swing, foxtrot, waltz and Latin dancing, and will be taught by Candace Woodward-Clough.    Classes begin Jan. 10, will run for six weeks,…

  • Announcements

       Christmas trees will be collected by the Public Works Department between Jan. 2 and Jan. 18. Trees must be free of adornment, bags and metal items, including stands, and should be placed at the curb of single-family residences. Residents living in multi-family developments should place trees next to the most convenient dumping enclosure.    Questions may…

  • Cystic fibrosis benefit

        There will be a benefit concert for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 6 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, located on Route 130 in East Windsor. The following bands will play: Capitalist Death Machine, Philo, Reckless, The Roscoes and Motion for Commotion. The cost is $3 per person.

  • A familiar ‘limbo’

    Mill project hurdles: density, housing market By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    HIGHTSTOWN — Now that the Borough Council has defeated redevelopment amendments many of which reflected the desires of the owner of the former rug mill, some wonder what’s next in the four-year saga of the town’s attempts to redevelop the blighted Bank Street site.…