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  • State grant helps pedestrian safety

    Borough, school distrct to receive funding. By: Bill Greenwood    JAMESBURG — The borough is going to get some help making Jamesburg a safer place to walk.    The state Department of Transportation announced July 18 that the borough and the school district will receive a $227,760 grant from its Safe Routes to School Program, according to…

  • Twenty-nine earn Meadow Lakes scholarships

    Program rewards young employees of independent and assisted-living community. By: Anthony Coppola    HIGHTSTOWN — The Meadow Lakes independent and assisted-living community awarded more than $50,000 to 29 young employees at this year’s scholarship ceremony last week.    The program, in its sixth year, is funded by the generosity of about 300 residents and some of their…

  • Reading Season

    Blink and summer is gone, but a bevy of books with glossy images can help the reader hold on to those precious moments. By: Ilene Dube       Summer is supposed to be a relaxed time, a time for indulging many hours – either on the beach, some distant mountain retreat, on a boat or in the…

  • New rules for signs in West Windsor on horizon

    Policy would range from business signs to temporary signs posted next to roads By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — Business owners may soon be required to ensure their business signage adheres to certain styles and principles, depending on their location within West Windsor, according to information presented by township professionals to the Planning Board on…

  • Staying safe on Route 130

    Police say intersections remain troublesome By: Michelle McGuinness    Despite improvements made in the past few years, police say there are still some intersections on Route 130 in Cranbury that are dangerous.    Cranbury police Sgt. Frank Dillane of the traffic safety unit said improvements to the Dey Road intersection and Half Acre Road intersection have made…

  • Column: Birth of water polo is here

    By: Justin Feil    Before our eyes, we are seeing the birth of water polo on the East Coast, and it’s nothing like that alarming movie we saw in health class.    Water polo has been around for more than a century, and it is the New York Athletic Club that has recorded the only U.S. gold…

  • No ifs ands or butts

    Resident across from WW-P High School South has had enough of student smoking detritus By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — Call it a case of the law of unintended consequences.    Create rules prohibiting students from smoking on the grounds of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, and you have created the impetus for intrepid student-smokers to…

  • Space allotted for town library

    Part of Wright South eyed for possible new building. By: Michelle McGuinness    The township has provided a 10,000-square-foot placeholder for a possible freestanding library in its plan for the Wright South property near the Cranbury School, Committeewoman Pari Stave, liaison to the library board of trustees, announced at the committee’s meeting Aug. 9.    Ms. Stave…

  • Drunken driving crackdown set for area

    By: Nick Norlen    Beginning today and extending to Sept. 3, area law enforcement officers will be stepping up enforcement of impaired driving as part of New Jersey’s "Over the Limit, Under Arrest" 2007 crackdown.    The goal of the program is to raise awareness about the dangers of impaired driving through high-visibility enforcement and to arrest…