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  • Candidates discuss death penalty

    Candidates for the state Senate and Assembly reflect on their positions By: Paul Koepp    Candidates for the state Senate and Assembly in the 14th District are split on abolishing the death penalty, though not along party lines, with some wholeheartedly supporting a current bill repealing it while others would amend it to permit capital punishment…

  • Campaigning for mayor in Princeton Borough

    Incumbent appears at receptions while challenger goes door-to-door By: Courtney Gross    Nearly two dozen residents of the John-Witherspoon neighborhood anxiously waited at Hunan Chinese Restaurant this week, where baskets were scattered throughout a reception room requesting pledges to Princeton Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman’s re-election campaign.    Several minutes past 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mayor Trotman slid through…

  • WEB UPDATE: Jamesburg names new schools chief

       Gail S. Verona will be Jamesburg’s new school superintendent. By: William Greenwood    JAMESBURG — The Board of Education hired a new superintendent Thursday.    Gail S. Verona will begin as superintendent this summer, with a contract that is expected to run from July 17 to June 30 2011. Her contracted salary is $127,500 for the 2007-2008…

  • Sarafin wantes to be seniors’ role model

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — They say actions speak louder than words.    But they probably haven’t heard Gene Sarafin’s volume and associated vitriol.    Nonetheless, the former borough councilman and longtime local government critic says he hopes he can set an example for other senior citizens by the action he’s planning to take. And other borough…

  • Ann Pavlick

       Ann Bobela Pavlick, 86, died Tuesday, March 15, at home.    Born in Garfield, she lived in East Brunswick for 39 years before moving to Monroe in 2000. She was a communicant of St. Batholomew’s R.C. Church, East Brunswick.    Her husband, Michael "Art" Pavlick, and a daughter, Sharon Stockton, are deceased. She is survived by two…

  • Montgomery students get lesson in electoral reform

    Yale law professor makes the case for a popular vote for president By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery High School students got the opportunity Tuesday to ask questions of Yale Law School Professor Akhil Reed Amar, who helped create a plan to turn the United States presidential race into a popular election, instead of one…

  • Letters to the editor

    May 18, 2007 Potential candidate voices frustration To the editor: Several comments made by school board members in the past few weeks prompts me to write this letter in response. I know they are unpaid volunteers (apparently, I am in the 1 percent of residents who know this) and they work hard for our children.…

  • Aiming at driver safety

    Click It or Ticket initiative to be inforced in coming weeks. By: Lacey Korevec    Seat belts save lives and the Cranbury Police Department is gearing up to help drivers remember that.    On Monday, the department will begin Click It or Ticket, an annual statewide initiative to make sure drivers and passengers buckle up before hitting…

  • Some pan library closing

    Residents voice disappointment at losing local library By: Bill Greenwood    JAMESBURG — The Borough Council’s announcement last week that it may ask voters to close the public library is not sitting well with some Jamesburg residents.    Members of the Jamesburg Friends of the Library said Wednesday night that the library offers numerous programs important to…