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  • Age of economic uncertainty

    New Jersey residents: earnings can’t keep up with the rising cost of living in the Garden State. By: Hank Kalet    I’ve been feeling like a gerbil on an economic wheel lately.    Month after month, the bills come in and, regardless of what we do, regardless of whether there is a bit of extra earnings from…

  • West Windsor council OKs plan to cut disruption from bridge work

    Sixty nights of noise for nearby residents to be eliminated By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — The West Windsor Township Council approved a resolution Monday reducing some Alexander Road bridge work from 60 nights to nine days, in a plan that should save nearby West Windsor residents hours of sleep and the New Jersey Department…

  • Eleanor Johnson

       Eleanor "Elena" Ann Johnson, 85, died Sunday, June 17, at her niece’s home in Hillsborough.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Middlebush, Belle Mead and Manville before moving to Rossmoor 25 years ago. She worked for Columbia Air Craft in Somerville and was also a hairdresser many years ago. Most recently she was a…

  • Marjorie E. Fox

       Marjorie E. (Peters) Fox, 95, died Saturday, June 16, at Care One Nursing Home in East Brunswick.    Born in London, she lived in Bayside and Douglaston, N.Y., for 32 years before moving to Rossmoor in 1970. She was the vice president/treasurer of Bittner Corp., a surgical rubber goods company, in New York City, for 30…

  • Larry Sten

       Larry Sten, 55, died Saturday, June 16, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Monroe for the past 30 years.    He was a tractor-trailer driver for Interstate Trucking, North Bergen, for 30 years. He was a communicant of St. Thomas the Apostle R.C. Church, Old Bridge. He had served in…

  • Go-ahead given for ball field

    Mayor Stout: the township hopes to find a contractor sometime this summer By: Michelle McGuinness    Cranbury Township hopes to pick someone this summer to build its long-awaited Babe Ruth League baseball field.    Almost a year after completing soil remediation on arsenic found at the site, next to the Cranbury School, the Township Committee received a…

  • NEWS UPDATE: Prosecutor: Digirolamo seems to have fled

    Millstone man charged with abandoning child. By: Vic Monaco and Cara Latham    TRENTON — Rosario "Roy" Digirolamo, the Millstone man labeled a person of interest in the disappearance of his mistress, Amy Giordano of Hightstown, was scheduled to fly back to the United States from Italy on Thursday, but he did not, according to law…

  • Letters to the Editor, June 29

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, June 29 Do dog attacks call for new laws? To the editor:    Regarding Carol Yam’s letter of June 26, the staff of the Princeton Regional Health Department would like to go on record in saying that our hearts go out to anyone who has been attacked and injured by a dog,…

  • Proposed high school may grow; Monroe school board eyes December referendum

    By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — The Board of Education agreed Wednesday to increase the size of a proposed new high school in Thompson Park and will ask voters in December to approve funding for the project.    District officials say the addition is needed because the previously approved and yet-to-be-built high school will be able to…