Category: archives
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Packing up twisted memories
Landlord empties last home of abandoned child By: Vic Monaco HIGHTSTOWN Mike Vanderbeck thought it was time. More than seven weeks had passed since his tenant Amy Giordano had disappeared and her toddler Michael Digirolamo had been found abandoned outside a Delaware hospital. Packing up your own belongings is often a trying, even dreaded…
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Open space report nears completion
Board Members hope to present plan in the next two months By: Michelle McGuinness Revisions to the open space and recreation component of the township’s Master Plan, which includes a proposal to rearrange Millstone Park in order to add a new soccer field, are nearly complete and could be presented to the Planning Board by…
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Local artist at Gourgaud
Around Cranbury By: Lorraine Sedor This evening, stop by the Gourgaud Gallery where Lauren Scott will be exhibiting her recent works. The First Friday reception will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lauren Scott is from Cranbury and had Tamara Woronczuk for an art teacher. Lauren has an MFA and this is her…
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Jr. Legion wins tourney
By: Sean Moylan After a tough playoff loss to Bordentown Post 26 a couple of weeks ago, it was obvious the Hightstown Post 148 Junior American Legion team still had some baseball left to play this summer. Hightstown’s Junior Legion team was able to prove how good it was by going out and winning Saturday’s…
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Sally Kelejian
Sally (Vartanian) Kelejian, 91, died Saturday, July 28, at The Gardens at Monroe. She was born in New York City and raised in Philadelphia. She lived for many years in the Flushing section of Queens, N.Y., before moving to Rossmoor in 1988. She worked as a saleswoman for 35 years for the high fashion women’s…
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Open House for Butterflies
– and people, too, at the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed’s Butterfly Festival. By: Anthony Stoeckert Everyone loves butterflies. Even the most entomophobic of us seem to appreciate their beauty and marvel at the migration of the monarch. "For the average person, I would think that it’s because they’re so delicate-looking," says Tara Miller, a naturalist and…
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OPINION
Associations’ rights should not trump free speech rights By: Hank Kalet "Expressive exercises, especially those bearing upon real and legitimate community issues, should not be silenced or subject to undue limitation because of changes in residential relationships, such as where lifestyle issues are governed or administered by community associations in addition to being regulated by…
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You can go your own way
Area educator bringing Montessori school to Lawrence By: Olivia Tattory The American Montessori Society training completed over a decade ago was nothing short of a life-changing experience for Kiran Paek. And so, 12 years after Ms. Paek began teaching at Princeton Montessori School, the Lake Drive resident is opening her own Montessori School on Whitehead…
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Bidding starts at $500K for Mansfield liquor license
By: Stephanie Prokop MANSFIELDA $500,000 packaged-goods liquor license soon is going to be available for bid, a first for the 8,500-resident township. The license could be purchased by either a retailer or a supermarket, according to township officials. "About four months ago, the owner of a soon-to-be constructed supermarket near the Homestead subdivision had publicly…
