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  • Major events slated at Montgomery Center for the Arts

    Halloween party coming Oct. 27; oral history project offered By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — The Montgomery Center for the Arts at the 1860 House is planning several major events in the coming weeks, ranging from a Halloween party for residents to an evening over coffee to an oral history project to review the center’s accomplishments…

  • Trying to stop bullying

    Author speaks to Cranbury youths about abuse By: Lacey Korevec    Forty-two-year-old Jodee Blanco tries to keep the pain from her past fresh.    Her memories of being excluded, physically abused, teased and ostracized by her classmates, to the point where she would wake up in the morning wishing she were sick and could stay home from…

  • PHS secretary goes above and beyond for her school

    Olive Giles is also a mentor, musician and very humble about her dedication to students By: Hilary Parker    How to describe secretary, musician and mentor Olive Giles in a single word?    Quite simply — humble.    A secretary for the Princeton High School Child Study Team and Guidance Department for more than a decade, Ms. Giles…

  • Dems to keep Lynch cash

    Nix GOP calls to donate money By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Monroe Municipal Democrat Committee plans to keep money donated from a political action committee founded by former state Sen. John A. Lynch, who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and tax evasion last month.    The Democrats were responding to questions raised after several Democratic…

  • Loss could be gain for MTHS girls soccer

    By: Ron Parent nbsp;  With the 22nd annual Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament rapidly approaching, the Monroe Township High School girls soccer team is rounding into postseason form.    And the Falcons, winners of seven of their last eight through Tuesday evening, drew as much encouragement from the one loss in that span as any of their seven…

  • Bolandi: Police say MySpace group no threat

    By: Cara Latham    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough police do not believe a chilling group name — "Kill the people of Hightstown High School — found this summer during a search of MySpace.com is a threat, according to Ron Bolandi, superintendent of East Windsor Regional schools.    Mr. Bolandi was responding at Monday’s school board meeting to the…

  • PHS girls show well in tune-up at Holmdel

    By: Justin Feil    The Shores Coaches Invitational is a first chance for the Princeton High cross country team to see how it will stack up against the state at famed Holmdel Park.    Princeton High School has plenty to build on after finishing third behind Voorhees and Moorestown in the girls’ C Division race. The Little…

  • University must vie for Plasma Physics Lab contract

    U.S. Department of Energy establishes a management competition By: Hilary Parker    Princeton University on Monday announced that it will vie for a management and operations contract for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in the spring, when the U.S. Department of Energy holds a competition for the management of the facility.    Since the lab’s inception in…

  • Edward Mulroy

       Edward F. Mulroy, 83, of Monroe, died Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the Elms Nursing Home, Cranbury.    Born in Newark, Mr. Mulroy lived in Sayreville for 23 years before moving to Rossmoor in 1979. Mr. Mulroy was employed for 27 years as a supervisor for I.E. DuPont DeNemours & Co., Newark, retiring in 1981. He was…