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    Alan Godber of the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership prepares to meet with volunteers to clean up area waterways at Milltown Borough Hall Nov. 20. To learn about the group’s upcoming events, visit www.lbwp.org. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Suspects indicted in alleged $10M marijuana operation

    Police: Bust made after officer smelled marijuana burning MONROE — Three suspects in an alleged international drug ring that was brought down thanks to the keen senses of a township police officer have been indicted on a slew of drug charges. Tuan Dang, 36, Ngoc Bui, 35, and Thu Nguyen, 45, are alleged to have…

  • Filmmaker tells story of WWII’s other ‘Rosies’

    Film focuses on women who helped win World War II, usher in the computer age BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Secret government ballistics projects to help eradicate the Nazis and women who functioned as human computers for the U.S. Army. These may sound like plot points to a science fiction movie, but during World War…

  • Helmetta man charged in holdup of East Brunswick gas station

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Police have arrested a Helmetta man on charges he held up the Raceway gas station at Ryders Lane and Milltown Road on Sunday evening. Police said James J. Gallichio, 27, approached the attendant of the gas station around 8 p.m., and allegedly produced a weapon and demanded money. The suspect allegedly took…

  • Spotswood’s Wyoming Ave. to be widened and curbed

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — A bond ordinance introduced by the Borough Council on Nov. 8 will revitalize several dilapidated roads in town. The $1.4 million ordinance was increased to $2.25 million in order to accommodate an additional road in the borough’s extensive road improvement program. “It was revised to include the cost…

  • Firefighters throw surprise party for esteemed member

    George Guise, who joined Milltown dept. in 1950, is thanked for ‘invaluable’ service BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer George Guise (r) with Sam Carasso have served a combined total of 112 years with the fire department, George with 60 years and Sam with 52. MILLTOWN — George “Grandpa” Guise is the oldest and longest-serving member…

  • Museum celebrates water as art world inspiration

    Water is the subject and title of a far-reaching exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, this fall. Ranging from a 17th-century Chinese landscape to Bill Viola’s 2005 visceral video work, “Ablutions,” works on display are drawn from the museum’s own collections of French, American, Russian and SovietNonconformist art,…

  • Monroe’s Applegarth to close for one year

    Asbestos removal, renovations to be completed by June 2012 BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer The Monroe Township Board of Education will keep the Applegarth Middle School shuttered for one year while it undergoes asbestos abatement and renovation projects. Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Hamilton explained the decision to parents during a special meeting held at Applegarth…

  • New master plan aimed at enhancing biz district

    Jamesburg council mulls changes to zoning laws, design standards, approval process BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer After a year of review, Jamesburg officials are inching closer to implementing business-friendly changes to the town’s master plan. An ordinance that would amend the master plan and enact new design standards was tabled at the Nov. 10 Borough…

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