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  • Three Toll Brothers communities honored at ceremony

    …the Pinnacle Awards competition honors exceptional communities and housing designs in the area    Toll Brothers, the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, is proud to announce its extraordinary success at this year’s Pinnacle Awards Ceremony, taking home 17 prestigious awards. Adding to the excitement of the night, three Toll Brothers communities were named Community of…

  • 3 seek appointment to Twin Rivers board

    By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Steve Commer, the fourth-place finisher among six candidates for three seats on the Twin Rivers board of directors, is one of three people seeking to fill a vacancy on the nine-member panel.    Also hoping to be appointed are Al Wally and Bill Dumanski. All three men have submitted resumes…

  • Public’s turn

    Budget & questions set after state waiver By: Dick Brinster    After getting a state waiver to expand its tax base by more than $2 million, the East Windsor Regional Board of Education will now turn its focus on trying to convince voters to part with a little more of their money when they go to…

  • Hun baseball tops rival in opener

    Munley happy to share in win By: Justin Feil    The effects of strep throat slowed Sean Munley, but they couldn’t keep The Hun School senior out of Tuesday’s season-opening baseball game against the Peddie School.    "No way, especially opening day senior year," he said. "You can’t miss that for anything, especially with these guys."    Munley…

  • The sound of music

    Westminister Choir College opens up a new world for the young By: Pat Summers    Moving from the Cinderella story to Aaron Copland’s "Appalachian Spring," using music from a TV show the entire class knows, in under 45 fast-and-fun minutes: This is probably not your usual sixth grade music course.    That strange-seeming but purposeful transition begins…

  • Concerned school board lengthens polling hours

    By: Dick Brinster    With the fate of a $77.4 million school budget and accompanying ballot questions a major concern for officials in the East Windsor Regional District, the Board of Education has decided to open the polls two hours earlier on April 17.    After discussing past problems at polling places and hearing a prediction by…

  • Enriching seniors’ moments

    Teenage volunteers bridge gap with games By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR —The dice roll, the laughter abounds and the taunts are everywhere.    "I’ve got two houses, and I’m the only one who does, so I’m winning," Lillian McNichol declares as she surveys the Monopoly board moments after the start of another game.    Phyllis Waters, eyeing…

  • Bichsel’s 73 carves out path to Garden State Cup

    By: Sean Moylan    It’s the week of the Masters so the "Masters of Peddie golf" went out this past Monday and won the Garden State Cup at the Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in Egg Harbor Township.    Peddie shot a stellar team score of 314, but needed to battle hard to stave off the runner-up…

  • OBITUARIES, April 6, 2007

    Julius Mate, Dr. Lillian B. Tenney Julius Mate Company manager     MONROE — Julius Mate died Thursday at Monroe Village. He was 88.    Born in South River, he was a Monroe resident since 1994.    He was employed in management at Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, Arnold Constable in New Brunswick and Krauszer food stores.…