Category: archives
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Monroe OKs contract for classroom trailers
As per voter approval of a $1.995 million referendum on April 18, the school district accepted a bid Wednesday to rent 24 portable classrooms. By: Marisa Maldonado MONROE The school district agreed to rent 24 portable classrooms to accommodate growth, accepting a bid to rent the trailers at a cost of about $44,000 a…
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Monroe woman hurt in accident
Harriet Rector, 88, was taken to University Medical Center at Princeton after she ran the red light at Station Road and Route 130 causing her to collide with another vehicle, police said. By: Jessica Beym An 88-year-old Monroe woman was taken to University Medical Center at Princeton Sunday after she ran a red light and…
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Jeanne R. Swanton
Jeanne Ruess Swanton, 84, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the University Medical Center at Princeton of a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in Altoona ,Pa., she was a former resident of Redding Ridge, Conn. and Cranbury before recently moving to Montgomery. A teacher for 30 years beginning in 1958, she held faculty positions in Norwalk and Andrew…
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Monroe golfers winning, but . . .
By: Sean Richards The Monroe High School golf team is 7-2, playing well and putting together one of its better seasons. To hear coach Pete LoPresti tell it, however, it’s also a team somewhat in search of an identity. "Grant Herring has been playing well, but we’re still not sure about the rest of our…
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Monroe Board swears in three new members
Marvin Braverman, John Leary, and Rita Ostrager were sworn in during the school’s board reorganization meeting Wednesday night. By: Marisa Maldonado MONROE The Board of Education kept its leadership intact at its Wednesday reorganization meeting, where it also swore three members. Kathy Kolupanowich was re-elected president for the second year in a row, while…
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Mapping the future
Jamesburg eyes revitalization By: Stephanie Brown JAMESBURG Imagine a Jamesburg where you could spend a lazy Saturday afternoon watching a matinee or inside a cozy coffee shop reading the paper. Imagine a downtown peppered with shops ranging in goods from pet supplies to brilliant baubles. The Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition wants to make that vision…
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Forty firms ready to design West Windsor’s new station complex
Officials pleased with response as selection process begins By: Emily Craighead WEST WINDSOR Nearly 40 architectural and engineering firms lined up to submit proposals to redevelop the area around the Princeton Junction train station on Monday. Representatives from firms including Hillier Architecture, Parsons Brinckerhoff, KSS Architects and Clarke Caton Hintz attended an information meeting…
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EDITORIAL: New candidates good for borough
EDITORIAL: The fact that more than one person ran for a seat on the school board should be taken as a good sign. Jamesburg has been finding it difficult in recent years to find candidates to run for school board. In two of the three elections prior to this year, write-in candidacies were required to…
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Keane and Carrini keep pitching in for MHS
By: Lance Manion While back-to-back losses weren’t quite what they had in mind, head coach Keith Hudak and the rest of the Monroe High School softball team still received stellar pitching performances from a pair of underclassman aces in consecutive defeats this past week. And the future for a young Falcons team that’s learning on…
