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  • Montgomery GOP names Drift as replacement candidate

    By: Greg Forester    The Montgomery Township Republican Organization has selected Frank Drift as a candidate for a three-year Township Committee seat, replacing the original candidate, Margaret Windrem.    Ms. Windrem — who also serves as Montgomery municipal chairwoman — has withdrawn her candidacy due to an increase of work at her consulting business.    Mr. Drift will…

  • Dabas found guilty of murder charges

    Kendall Park man who ran his wife down with their minivan will be sentenced in September. By: Paul Koepp    After six days of deliberations, a New Brunswick jury has handed down a guilty verdict in the trial of a Kendall Park man accused of running down his wife with the couple’s minivan in 2004.    Samander…

  • Public sees advantages to alternative forms

    Charter Study Commission’s second public hearing gives chance for residents to weigh-in on studies By:Paul Szaniawski    The gears for change may slowly be turning in Hillsborough as public support may be picking up steam in the direction to change the town’s government.    During the Charter Study Commission’s June 27 public hearing, residents discussed a government…

  • James S. Fisher

       James S. Fisher, 82, of Pennington died on Saturday at Capital Health Systems, Mercer Campus.    Born in Pennwood, Pa., he was a Pennington resident most of his life.    Mr. Fisher was a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, who served in the Pacific for three years. He was a gunner’s mate on the USS Moale…

  • Monroe Scout takes to fields to fight hunger

    Zach Etsch organized picking and distribution of crops to the hungry through the New Jersey Agricultural Society’s Farmers Against Hunger program By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — Zach Etsch, a 16-year-old Boy Scout from Troop 3 in Monroe, approached his Eagle Scout project with two goals in mind: give his fellow Scouts some hands-on agricultural experience…

  • Boys’ Track Athlete of the Year

    Leslie made big jumps for WW-P North By: Justin Feil    Two weeks into the spring track and field season West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ head coach Brian Gould was reluctant to call Jerome Leslie a guaranteed winner.    By the end of the year, Leslie had proven no expectation was too great as he earned a steady…

  • Dolores Dohanish

       Dolores Cennamo Dohanish, 75, of Monroe, died Monday, July 2, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Dunellen for 19 years, moving to Clearbrook in 2000. She was employed for 14 years as a clerk for PSE&G, Plainfield, retiring in 1981.    She is survived by her husband, John;…

  • Duplak hits, pitches WW into Final Nine

    Lefty dominant after first inning By: Justin Feil    Mike Duplak feels a little special as the lone left-handed thrower on the West Windsor 12-year-old baseball team.    "Everybody loves to have a lefty," Duplak said. "It definitely shakes things up a lot."    Duplak rallied from a shaky start to hurl a two-hitter in his first mound…

  • New exhibit opens at the Gourgaud

    Acrylic painter Nicholas Skally to have first solo exhibit By: Lacey Korevec    For 30-year-old acrylic painter Nicholas Skally, art isn’t about recreating an image that already exists. It’s about adding layer upon layer of colors to create something unique and new.    His canvases are covered with thick slabs of paint, overlapping and dripping into swirls…