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  • Downtown retail/office building wins approval, praise

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — Construction could begin soon on a small retail and office building described by one local leader as a "missing link" to downtown revitalization.    The Planning Board on Monday gave conditional approval to the two-story building proposed by Jeff Bond on what is now a parking lot directly across from Sun…

  • Column: Nuse Sense

    Perfect day for PU football By: Bob Nuse    Every football team begins each season with the same goal — to win every game they play.    Princeton University has been playing football since the sport’s inception in 1869. And seven times since 1922, Princeton has achieved this goal.    The Tigers begin a new season on Saturday…

  • Council OKs housing plan

    Affordable housing to be constructed By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Township Council approved a resolution Wednesday authorizing payment of a total of $11.35 million to Perth Amboy and New Brunswick so that the cities can build 325 affordable housing units that had been assigned by the state to Monroe.    The transfer of half of…

  • For Cineastes Who Think

    The New Jersey Film Festival offers films open to interpretation. By: Anthony Stoeckert    Autumn is here, and it’s time to get serious about movies. No more pirates, mutants, snake-infested planes, and, best of all, not an Adam Sandler movie in sight. But even as mainstream movies start to get serious, true film devotees seek out…

  • Proposed university building gets brief review before Planning Board

    Glass walls to characterize three-story structure on Charleton Street By: Hilary Parker    Just as those standing outside the Operations Research and Financial Engineering building proposed by the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science will be able to view portions of the interior through its glass walls, the Site Plan Review Advisory Board on…

  • New York Times reporter weighs repeat of 1918 flue pandemic

    First of series of talks begin at Princeton Public Library By: Courtney Gross    Imagine quarantined airports, overwhelmed hospitals and widespread power outages.    Picture eerily quiet workplaces — empty of employees who sit at home for fear of falling ill.    Envision grocery stores looted of supplies as an influenza pandemic spreads from country to country and…

  • Relief from the Multiplex

    New Jersey’s film festivals offer moviegoers something different. By:    Autumn is here, and it’s time to get serious about movies. No more pirates, mutants, snake-infested planes, and, best of all, not an Adam Sandler movie in sight. But even as mainstream movies start to get serious, true film devotees seek out that extra something special…

  • Sewer request confuses officials

    Lawyer debunks officiality of letter By: Jessica Beym    A lawyer representing a company looking to redevelop a contaminated site on Brick Yard Road says a letter to the township wasn’t an official request to extend sewer lines to the site, although it appeared that way to the township.    The Township Committee spent about 45 minutes…

  • Sidney Sesser

       Sidney H. Sesser, 90, of Monroe, died Saturday, Sept. 9, at Balfour Nursing Home in Louisville, Colo.    Born in Newark, he resided in Monroe for five years before moving to Colorado in 2005. Mr. Sesser had a second residence in Hawley, Pa.    Prior to retiring in 1984 he was a salesman for Country Club Apartments,…