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  • Wawa withdraws its controversial plan for new Montgomery store

    Montgomery, Rocky Hill officials hail decision; company leaves door open for new application By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Wawa has formally withdrawn its application to build a new convenience store and gasoline station in Montgomery Township.    The company applied in September 2005 to move its convenience store — currently located at the intersection of Routes…

  • Josephine C. Staskiewicz

       Josephine C. Staskiewicz Huzar, 87, of Monroe, died Sunday, Dec. 24, at Pine Brook Nursing Home in Englishtown.    Born in Perth Amboy, she later moved to Chambersburg, Pa., where she lived for over 30 years, finally moving to Monroe in 2005.    Her husband, John, died in 2005. She is survived by several nieces and nephews,…

  • Obituaries

    Patricia (Zimmerman) Wolfe    HIGHTSTOWN — Patricia E. (Zimmerman) Wolfe, 56, died Dec. 21 at home.    Born in Sunbury, Pa., she was a resident of Hightstown for more than 30 years. She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.    After graduating from Shamokin Area High School in 1968, she married the now-late Gerald L. Wolfe…

  • Jobs!

    Exploring a Career in Newspapers? We Should Talk Welcome to a community consisting of responsible, caring, creative people If you desire to build a solid foundation, one that will support a fulfilling career we should talk If you believe in democracy and the media’s role in our democracy we should talk If you wish to…

  • Letters

    Fix election problems now To the editor:     Should we congratulate ourselves that we got through the November elections with only a few major problems and several minor ones? Do we turn a "blind eye" to the significance of these incidents, or can we as a nation actually learn from them?    Perhaps the fiasco in…

  • Biloxi blues

    Teens from Jewish Center of Princeton startled by persistence of Katrina woes By: Kristin Boyd    When a dozen teens from the Jewish Center of Princeton arrived in Biloxi, Miss., to help with Hurricane Katrina relief, they had no idea their lost luggage would pack such a powerful lesson.    Having only the clothes on their back,…

  • Rocky Hill Republicans in search to fill council vacancy

    Batchelder, in explaining his resignation, cites "harassment and intimidation tactics" By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — The process to fill the seat on the Borough Council vacated by former Councilman Rich Batchelder has begun.    Tom Roshetar, the chairman of the Republican Committee in the borough, said he and members of the Republican Party would be…

  • Amateur astronomers to hear talk by university professor on cosmology

       Jim Gunn, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, is the keynote speaker for the Tuesday meeting of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton.    The meeting will begin promptly at 8 p.m. in the main lecture theater of Peyton Hall on Ivy Lane on the Princeton University campus. The public is invited.    Professor…

  • Giuseppe Romanella

       Giuseppe "Joseph" Romanella, 66, of Monroe, died Sunday, Dec. 31, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident.    Born in Montemurro, Italy, he came to the United States in 1948 and settled in New York He lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., for nine years before moving to Old Bridge in 1972, where he lived for 25…