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  • School busing task force sets six goals

    Next meeting set Nov. 15 By John Tredrea    A Valleywide task force on school busing met for the first time Nov. 1, set itself six basic goals and agreed to meet again Nov. 15.    The task force was formed in response to the school district’s controversial plan to discontinue all busing not required by state…

  • Local voters back Senate winner

    Menendez gets Township support By: Joseph Harvie     U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, both Democrats, had overwhelming support from South Brunswick voters on Tuesday night when New Jersey re-elected both men for another term in Washington.     Sen. Menendez, who took office in Jan. 2006 when Gov. Jon Corzine vacated his…

  • LHS tennis achieves a lot

    GIRLS TENNIS By: Mike Molaro    When head coach Mick Cimorelli looks back at his first year with the Lawrence High School girl’s tennis squad, he’ll see a season filled with more highs than lows.    The 10-9 record, including a gutsy 3-2 triumph over The Pennington School with a patchwork lineup, speaks volumes for a team…

  • Blues-Gospel-Gumbo

    Quintessential jam band Little Feat to perform at McCarter Theatre. By: Susan Van Dongen    If you’re a member of a certain age group and you love music, Little Feat’s classic live album, Waiting for Columbus, is probably in your vinyl collection. A few years ago, the band released a 25th anniversary edition of its monumental…

  • TANGENTS by John Saccenti: Fear-filled messages fail to influence ‘base’ voter

    Campaign calls prove to be more annoying than insightful By: John Saccenti    Thank you very much.    And by "thank you very much," what I really mean to say is "the idiots who were calling me every five minutes last weekend have ruined yet another perfectly good Election Day."    There I was, just days before mid-term…

  • Route 1 redevelopment future focus of meeting

    Topics included redevelopment along a portion of Brunswick Pike – also known as Business Route 1 – between the Brunswick Circle and Mayflower Avenue. By: Lea Kahn    New Jersey Future representatives met with Mayor Michael Powers and a handful of elected and appointed Lawrence officials Monday afternoon to discuss economic growth, including the redevelopment of…

  • Zoning board OKs Route 130 hotel

    Hotel gets one steop closer to becoming a reality By: Joseph Harvie    The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved plans to build a 25,333-square-foot hotel at the intersection of Route 130 and Melrich Road, Nov. 2.    Apex Hospitality Group was granted preliminary and final site plan approval to build the 116-room, four-story hotel and a 7,230-square-foot…

  • Theater troupe takes show on the road

    "Grease" is the word for these local performers By: Bill Greenwood    The Crossroads South auditorium was rocking to the sounds of the ’50s last week.    As the instrumental track for "Summer Lovin’" from the musical "Grease" blasted from a CD player on the stage of the school’s auditorium, a collection of children ages 7 to…

  • Odd Man In

    Jack Klugman brings a new voice and new-found ability to cry to ‘The Value of Names.’ By: Anthony Stoeckert    Jack Klugman seems to have an opinion about everything. From the price of canned soup ("Three dollars! I make a batch of it for $4, it’ll last six weeks…") to the state of today’s television sitcoms…