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  • Repair on bridge may begin

    Resolution to be voted on at Township Council meeting Monday By: Emily Holody    Three months after a storm damaged the Petty Road Bridge and forced officials to close it, construction may begin soon.    The Township Committee is expected to vote Monday to award a contract for the bridge work, said Township Engineer Cathy Marcelli.    Residents…

  • Park study to take three weeks

    Additional survey work began Tuesday By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — Additional survey work on the proposed site of a new high school in Thompson Park is expected to be complete in three weeks, according to Ilene Grossman-Bailey, a senior archaeologist with Richard Grubb and Associates, of Cranbury.    Grubb and Associates began the extra work Tuesday…

  • Couples celebrate marriage, friendship

    Friends renewed their vows in a villa in Italy By: Madeleine Johnson    Not many couples get to celebrate 105 years of marriage.    But on June 27, three couples — Robert and JoAnn Bartoletti, of Cranbury; Michael and Marlene Lynch, of Titusville; and Michael and Carol Vedral, of Hamilton Township — renewed their vows in a…

  • H-EW 14’s place second in districts

    By: Sean Moylan    After posting an 8-3 win over Ewing on Friday the 13th at Bacon Field in Hopewell, the Hightstown-East Windsor 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star baseball squad appeared to be primed and ready to repeat as District One Champions. After all, winning two big games in one day is nothing new for this talented…

  • Tax case could cost borough $300K+ a year

    Owners of Minute Maid property seek huge reduction By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The borough could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in local tax revenue if the owners of the Minute Maid plant property are successful in a tax appeal they have filed.    The owners filed the appeal in April seeking to…

  • Eugene Bellina

       Eugene J. "Jimmy" Bellina, 85, died Friday, July 15, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born and raised in Newark, he lived there until moving to Edison in 1970 and finally to Clearbrook in 1999. He was owner and operator of his own oil supply and delivery business, Jimmy’s Oil Service, in Newark…

  • Story of a Body

    ‘Eccentric Bodies,’ on view at Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, presents the body as a canvas of experience. By: Ilene Dube    In Bailey Doogan’s charcoal drawings, a shapely woman with a voluptuous head of hair obscuring her face examines her naked wrinkled flesh. The images are titled, appropriately enough, "Self Exam in Nation."…

  • Elegant frozen desserts for summer affairs

    Frozen desserts used to be truly elegant fare at any time of year By: Faith Bahadurian    Give me a few extra minutes to kill and proximity to a bookstore, and chances are I’ll shortly be the proud owner of yet another cookbook. So on a frigid afternoon last winter I found myself browsing the well-stocked…

  • 1,000-mile trek by ‘power people’ sends bright message

    Liz Tylander, Lara Sheets and Kat Shiffler to focus on "Healthy Harvests" By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann    What happens when three young women — convinced that food grown locally is vital, and concerned that whole foods have taken on elitist overtones — put their heads together in search of solutions? They dream up "a people-powered" bicycle…