• CRANBURY: Crash brings down powerline, fire (UPDATED)

    CRANBURY: Crash brings down powerline, fire (UPDATED)

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer By Amy Batista CRANBURY- A Thursday evening crash on Route 130 north at the border of East Windsor Township left a senior couple from Monroe trapped inside their vehicle while rescue crews feverishly worked to free them. According to Lt. James Geary of the East Windsor Police Department, the accident…

  • CRANBURY: Crash brings down powerline, fire (UPDATED)

    CRANBURY: Crash brings down powerline, fire (UPDATED)

    Photos by Nicole M. Wells and Charles W. Kim.

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank Encourages Customers to Take Precautions When Using ATMs

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank Encourages Customers to Take Precautions When Using ATMs

    By Rosanne Schwab ATMs are a great convenience and can be found almost everywhere. They make it convenient for you to get cash whenever you need it and to bank after hours. This is normally a safe and secure process; however, carelessly using your card at an ATM can make you a target for robbery as well…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Prosecutor asked to investigate Mayor Kirson

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough Attorney Frederick Raffetto has asked the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office to investigate recent allegations made by the Hightstown police director during the March 4 council meeting.    The forum turned into a heated debate over confirmed code violations at the temporary police station on Mercer Street as allegations…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Council looks at stores for municipal offices

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council is reviewing downtown sites to relocate its municipal employees.   It has been 18 months since Hurricane Irene struck Hightstown as a tropical storm and damaged the Borough Hall complex.    Properties reviewed by Dawson Bloom, borough project manager, were 402 Mercer St., 157A Broad St. and…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Auditions held for ‘Tavern on the Lake’

    HIGHTSTOWN: Auditions held for ‘Tavern on the Lake’

    By Matt Nelson, Special Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Act Natural Productions, a production company in Asbury Park, recently held auditions for its upcoming comedy-web series called “Tavern on the Lake.”    The show is being named after the bar and restaurant, Tavern on the Lake, at 101 N. Main Street in downtown Hightstown.    The auditions took…

  • Holocaust Survivor, MCCC Professor Emeritus Vera Goodkin to Speak at Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Holocaust Survivor, MCCC Professor Emeritus Vera Goodkin to Speak at Holocaust Remembrance Day

    By Jim Gardner Dr. Vera Goodkin, professor emeritus at Mercer County Community College who escaped the Holocaust with the help of famed rescuer Raoul Wallenberg, will offer a presentation in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. at the Mercer County Holocaust-Genocide Resource Center (MCHGRC). The center is located on…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Week of March 15

    East Windsor    Sal Cassaro, 25, of Millstone, was charged with drunken driving at 2:45 a.m. March 2 after being stopped on Etra Road.    Police were patrolling Etra Road when they heard a motor vehicle accident.    The vehicle, a 2012 Mazda, was found in the road with heavy front-end damage from striking a guardrail.    Mr. Cassaro…

  • NEWARK: ICE seeks Hightstown child porn suspect

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    NEWARK — Federal officials are seeking the public’s help in a massive manhunt to locate a Hightstown man who allegedly is wanted for possessing child pornography, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations on March 12.    Fredy Marcelo Arbito, 30, of Hightstown, is…

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