Category: archives
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Wrestlers enjoy strong finish at MCT
Everingham’s second is best in area By: Bob Nuse TRENTON All three Packet-area wrestling teams went to the Mercer County Tournament with specific goals in mind. While none of the teams expected to come away with a team championship, each had high hopes for some of their individual wrestlers. The top finish for an…
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Contest: Win tickets to World Championship ICE Racing
February 9 @ 7:30pm The 31st Annual World Championship ICE Racing Series is planned to blast off in Green Bay, Wisconsin on December 2nd. World Champions will be crowned in I.C.E.’s two premier professional racing divisions Manufacturers World Cup Motorcycles and Unlimited Outlaw Quads. With larger purses and more exciting new cities planned this winter…
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In Black and White
A sociologist-turned-photographer finds the humanity in caring for the elderly. By: Ilene Dube It’s 57 degrees in Nice, France, where former Princeton resident and Rutgers sociology professor Cathy Stein Greenblat lives, facing the Mediterranean. The lifelong Francophile lives in the land of her dreams, listening to WBGO Jazz Radio in Newark on iTunes. While taking…
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Gertrude M. Burkhalter
Gertrude M. Burkhalter, 86, died Saturday at her home. Born in Mercerville, she resided most of her life in Hopewell Township. She had retired in 1987 from the Mercer County Extension Service, where she had 43 years of service. At the time of her retirement she was senior clerk stenographer. She was an active member…
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Eden Institute to seek a new home
Proposed 48,000-square-foot facility still needs a site By: Molly Petrilla WEST WINDSOR After more than three decades in its current facility, the Eden Institute is ready for a new home. Though the state-funded school has been serving children and adolescents with autism since 1975, officials said its 18,000-square-foot building near the corner of Route…
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Housing plans in limbo
Decision nixes COAH rules By: Joseph Harvie MONROE Local officials aren’t sure how a Jan. 25 state appellate court ruling tossing out some affordable housing rules will affect Monroe. The three-judge appellate panel of the state Superior Court ruled that some of the rules, including those that allow municipalities to determine their own housing…
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Plans for senior housing OK’d
Potential site not zoned for age-restrictive housing By: Stephanie Brown MONROE An Old Bridge developer wants to build a 130-unit senior housing community on a site that does not permit age-restricted housing. The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved an application Tuesday by Renaissance Properties, Inc., owned by Robert McDaid, that will allow the development…
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Letters to the editor
State law backs editorial To the editor: After reading Bob Murdich’s letter to the editor describing the Herald’s editorial of Jan. 19 as un-American, etc. I had to reread that editorial plus N.J.S.A.40A: 60-1, et seq. a statute concerning the structure of our form of borough government to determine what the writer was legitimately…
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Obituaries
Arinthia ‘Bell’ Owens HIGHTSTOWN Arinthia "Bell" Bagley Owens, 104, died Jan. 24 at the University Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Millhurst, she was one of 15 children born to Charles and Agnes Moody. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses in Monroe. Predeceased by her parents and two sons,…
