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  • Mironov no fan of EMS merger plan at this point

    By: Vic Monaco    A suggestion to consider merging East Windsor’s and Hightstown’s contracts for emergency medical services, aimed at saving money, won’t likely come to fruition, given comments made this week by East Windsor Mayor Janice Mironov.    "East Windsor does not negotiate township business through the newspapers," the mayor wrote in the first sentence of…

  • ‘Off the page’

    Teen poets will read their work as part of U.S. poetry’s biggest bash By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann    Since 1986, the biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival has been bringing many of the world’s and the nation’s most noteworthy poets to New Jersey, as well as spotlighting the state’s own poets. The festival is the single…

  • ‘The Mother of Us All’

    The opera about Susan B. Anthony, composed by Virgil Thomson with libretto by Gertrude Stein, will be sung at Rutgers. By: Susan Van Dongen    In the opera The Mother of Us All, the characters are historic giants such as Daniel Webster, Ulysses S. Grant and Susan B. Anthony. They’re on stage at the same time…

  • Three New Floor Plans at Combs Farm

    The original floor plans at Combs Farm offer up to 3,900 square feet    Pulte Homes’ award-winning Combs Farm in Mercer County wants to make finding your dream home easier. The intimate enclave of just 46 home sites in Washington Township is introducing three more spacious floor plans to the Combs Farm home collection. The new…

  • Working toward a vibrant downtown

    Effort aims to maintain old-time charm mixed with new business By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — Where to begin?    That was the question members of the Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition posed to a few borough merchants during a focus group meeting Sept. 14 at Borough Hall.    The JRC is a grass roots movement of borough business owners,…

  • Bail maintained for alleged killer

    Lawyer: Man was depressed By: Dick Brinster    TRENTON — Bail was maintained at $500,000 this week for an East Windsor man charged with the stabbing death of a woman with whom he lived.    The attorney for Donald Zampini said at Wednesday’s bail hearing that his client was suffering from depression at the time of the…

  • Rocky Hill candidates flip in and out of ballot

    Mayor and council race shifts significantly as deadline reached for placement on November ballot By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — With the passing of Wednesday’s deadline for candidates to have their names placed on or withdrawn from ballots for the November election, the mayoral and council races in the borough have changed significantly.    What was…

  • Traffic issues in school lot

    District to change drop-off site By: Candice Leigh Helfand    The parking lot at the Cranbury School is a crowded place when it’s time to pick up and drop off the children for school.    Buses, cars, and pedestrians arrive all at once to get the kids to school on time, and school officials say that the…

  • Provost sets course mark at Princeton Day School

    By: Sean Moylan    Although she already owns the Peddie cross country course record (18:51), don’t expect Rachel Provost to slow down any this season. In fact. on September 12th, the Falcons’ super senior set a course record at Princeton Day School campus with a 20:24 time in the Peddie girls’ varsity cross country team’s 17-38…