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  • Building a better world, student by student

    For Deborah Glace-Wnek, the most important thing was connecting her students with the world at large. By: Marisa Maldonado    Deborah Glace-Wnek has spent much of her 35-year career teaching in the open space section of Monmouth Junction School, where classrooms are not separated by walls and doors. The structure has enabled her to work better…

  • Life Center grads: ‘Dream big’

    School graduates 31 students By: Cara Latham    FLORENCE — High school graduates are the future. But how can they continue this world’s progress if they don’t visualize big things?    Salutatorian James Bussiere raised this question to his fellow graduates at Life Center Academy’s graduation ceremony June 2.    During the ceremony, as James spoke to the…

  • Legion season gets underway

    By: Rich Fisher    After a year in which it finished second in the District 4 tournament, qualified for the state tournament and survived some off-season controversy, South Brunswick Post 401’s American Legion baseball team comes into the season with high hopes once again.    Drawing mainly from Central Jersey Group IV finalist South Brunswick High and…

  • Grand Slam

    Local man’s book details his hatred for baseball’s Yankees. By: Joseph Harvie    Gene Hutmaker, of Monmouth Junction, grew up hating Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees.    He said the hatred began in 1953.    "I was 8 years old and the Yankees were coming off winning five World Series," Mr. Hutmaker said Monday. "It was the…

  • MHS scores on state test jump nearly 18 percent

    Principal says new curriculum, collaboration helped juniors surpass district’s expectations. By: Donna Lukiw    Scores for Manville High School juniors in this year’s mandated High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) test jumped nearly 18 percent, according to school officials.    Not only did the students achieve the necessary proficiency goals in language arts and mathematics but they are…

  • O’Connor set for another big shot

    ATHLETE OF THE WEEK By: Rudy Brandl    Taryn O’Connor is becoming a regular at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions.    The Hillsborough High junior earned her fourth straight trip to the state’s most prestigious track and field meet – combining the winter indoor and spring outdoor seasons – with last Friday’s performance at the State Group…

  • Trucker indicted

    Charged in death of woman By: Joseph Harvie    A Middlesex County grand jury indicted a 59-year-old Amarillo, Texas, tractor-trailer driver on Tuesday on a second-degree vehicular manslaughter charge in connection with a fatal crash on Route 1 that killed a 24-year-old woman in 2005, Assistant Prosecutor Nicholas Sewitch said Wednesday.    Mr. Sewitch said the grand…

  • Obituaries

    For the week of June 8 George Andreescu    ROEBLING — George Andreescu, 77, died May 31 at home.    Mr. Andreescu was born in Romania and resided in Middlesex before moving to Roebling a year ago.    He enjoyed gardening, especially planting trees and flowers.    In 1953, Mr. Andreescu received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry. He was…

  • Edward L. Kubacki

       Commander Edward L. Kubacki, of Princeton and Lake Harmony, Pa., died May 28, at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home in Menlo Park.    Born in Reading, Pa., he graduated from Reading Senior High School, then attended Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute, where he received a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering in 1941 from Penn State…