• EAST WINDSOR: Firefighters on top of area fires

    EAST WINDSOR: Firefighters on top of area fires

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    EAST WINDSOR — Firefighters have been busy battling fires this spring.    Brush and mulch fires have been springing up throughout the area.    "East Windsor volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel along with our police are doing an excellent job in responding quickly and effectively to these unfortunate brush-related fires,” said Mayor…

  • CRANBURY: Voters pass budget, elect new board member

    CRANBURY: Voters pass budget, elect new board member

    By Kaitlyn Kanzler, Special Writer    CRANBURY – Township voters approved the $15.5 million school budget Tuesday and elected a new member to the Board of Education, while two other incumbents maintained their seats.    According to business administrator Joyce Picariello, the $15.5 million budget passed 322-124 including absentee ballots.    Provisional ballots, which are ballots provided to…

  • Decades of bravos

    Decades of bravos

    Princeton University conductor Michael Pratt. Photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • EDITORIAL: Congrats to EMT, family

       A Montgomery EMT recently gave new meaning to the term “home delivery.”    Actually, it was a home delivery in the very real sense. She delivered a baby for a woman who was nine months pregnant and couldn’t get to the hospital in time.    Ellen Duxbury went from feeling inconsistent contractions to having her water break…

  • EAST WINDSOR: State of township annual address ahead

       Mayor Janice Mironov is scheduled to speak on the state of East Windsor Township midday on May 10 at the Holiday Inn, 399 Monmouth St.    The address, which will occur after an East Windsor Chapter of Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon, will include a report on recent accomplishments and future goals.    The mayor will…

  • GUEST COLUMN: Standing behind farmers would help end hunger

    By Sarah Phillips    The climate of our world is changing. Ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising and average temperature is increasing.    Something else also is increasing — the world’s population. It is estimated that by 2050, there will be nine billion people to feed. In a global community facing two major issues, both…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Students shine during annual art show
  • Affordable Housing: Another side of issue

    Bruce Gunther Hopewell Township     As a longtime resident of Brandon Farms, and having had the privilege of representing the folks in my condo association on various governing bodies for decades, I know the people who live in the township’s largest collection of Affordable Housing. They’re lawyers, policemen, firemen, small business owners, often single parents,…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Students shine during annual art show

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