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SCOTT PILLING staff Eric Anzalone, who has since 1995 performed as the biker/leatherman with the Village People, was among the guests on hand for Career Day at Mill Lake Elementary School in Monroe. The New Jersey resident has made a career of performing in music and stage productions, as well as acting and writing.
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Board achieves savings through cuts, user fees
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The Board of Education has agreed to reduce the tax levy by $1 million but in ways different from those recommended by the Township Council. In addition to making cuts, the board will implement user fees for a number of programs as a…
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E.B. hopes to bring bike path to parks along Cranbury Rd.
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The township is seeking a new bicycle path that would lead from Fern Road to Dideriksen Park and then to Heavenly Farms. At its Monday night meeting, the Township Council passed a resolution to apply for a county grant for the project. Councilman…
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Grants, donations help fund athletic fields
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The township will receive nearly $1 million in grants and donations to help defray the costs of synthetic fields at Heavenly Farms. Councilman David Stahl said the township recently learned it is receiving a $500,000 grant from the Middlesex County Board of Chosen…
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Synagogue honors retiring Torah reader
David Grossman, 86, concludes a decade of service at congregation BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff David Grossman, of Monroe’s Concordia development, is retiring from his longtime role as a reader during services at the Jewish Congregation of Concordia. The synagogue has credited him as being a leader, a…
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Planning Board OKs site plans for Village
New retail center will bring stores, hotel to Route 33 BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – After months of sometimes contentious wrangling, The Village at Manalapan retail development has received preliminary site plan approval. On May 25, the Manalapan Planning Board voted 7-2 in favor of preliminary approval following an…
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Route 33 task force to hold hearings soon
Panel reviewing development plans, results of studies BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE – Residents may soon get a good look at what developers are proposing for the future of the township’s portion of Route 33. A task force assembled a year ago has been overseeing development concepts and traffic and…
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Suspect sought
East Brunswick police released this sketch Wednesday of a suspect who allegedly rammed his vehicle numerous times into an unoccupied vehicle at McDonald’s on Route 18 at 2:20 a.m. Feb. 15. The unoccupied Dodge Colt, which was totaled, belonged to an employee of the restaurant who refused to serve the suspect after he reportedly gave…
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Snuff mill, park site make ‘endangered’ list
Group says properties are both irreplaceable and in jeopardy BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Three Middlesex County properties are among the “Ten Most Endangered Sites” in the state, according to a list released last month by Preservation New Jersey. The former Helme Tobacco Co. snuff mill in Helmetta, the Bethel Mission…
