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  • Dec. 10 is deadline for ‘Project Little Soldier’

    Gifts are being collected for children of U.S. soldiers deployed to Iraq    Mercer County is reminding residents, business, and local organizations that donated gifts for the “Project Little Soldier” holiday toy drive will be collected through Dec. 10.    Through Project Little Soldier, gifts will be collected for the children of U.S. soldiers from our area…

  • Kathryn Petrock

       MANVILLE — Kathryn Petrock died Dec. 1, 2007 at home. She was 92.    Born in Johnstown, Pa., she had been a Manville resident for 67 years.    Mrs. Petrock worked for Johns-Manville during the 1930s and 1940s and later, she and her late husband were the owner/operators of Ted’s Market in Manville for many years. Mrs.…

  • Driver runs car into fitness center

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    JAMESBURG — One employee and two patrons of the Curves fitness center had a close call last week when a car barreled through the business’s Forsgate Drive storefront.    Edith Minkoff, 79, of Monroe, told police she was not sure what had happened after her 2007 Lexus ES 350 ended up…

  • Teens charged in burglaries

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — Three teens were charged Saturday in connection with a series of car break-ins in the Outcault section of Monroe.    Police arrested the teens — Steven Orozco, 19, of Iselin; Justin Hall, 18, of Carteret; and an unnamed 17-year-old from Monroe — after seeing their white Nissan driving slowly…

  • Jewell B. Wright Jr.

    Grew up in Princeton     BOUNTIFUL, Utah — Jewell B. Wright Jr. died Nov. 30 at home. He was 82.    Born in Princeton and a graduate of Princeton High School, he moved to Bountiful in 1989.    He retired from Public Service Electric & Gas Co. after 30 years.    He was past commander of the American…

  • Lillian Berkowsky

       MONROE — Lillian Berkowsky, 92, died Tuesday at Wynwood at Forsgate on Tuesday.    She was born and lived in New York City before moving to New Jersey in 1946, living in the Jackson Township and the Lakewood area before moving to Monroe Township in 1999.    She was a bookkeeper for many years, then worked as…

  • Alfred Sapolnick

       EAST WINDSOR — Alfred Sapolnick, 67, died Sunday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New York City, Mr. Sapolnick was a former resident of the Bronx, N.Y. He was an accountant with the RCA Corp. and later the Internal Revenue Service in New York City.    Son of the late Harry and…

  • "Elf" at Central High, Dec. 15

    Cinema Night series    The Performing Arts Center at Hopewell Valley Central High School will present its second movie in PAC’s Cinema Night series. “Elf” will be shown on Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. Admission is $3 per person. Refreshments will be sold. “Elf” stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised in the North Pole…

  • Joseph Palko

       OVIEDO, Fla. — Joseph A. Palko died Nov. 23. He was 58.    Born in Manville, he worked in the restaurant industry.    Surviving are his wife, Patricia (Himmelberger) Palko; his mother, Lottie Palko; two sisters, Beverly Jankowy and Marsha Rogowski; and one brother, James Palko.    A funeral service was held Nov. 27 from Baldwin Fairchild Funeral…