• New trail was once a rail line

    By: centraljersey.com UPPER FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Park System has announced the opening of a new trail in the township. The Union Transportation Trail was once the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad, a short line right-of-way established in 1864 to provide dairies and farms access to larger railroads at junctions in Pemberton and Hightstown. In…

  • MONTGOMERY: Cougars building on wins

    MONTGOMERY: Cougars building on wins

    Girls soccer earns results after talk By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Barely one week into the regular season, the Montgomery High School girls soccer team sat down together for a heart-to-heart talk.    The Cougars had lost, 3-1, to Watchung Hills and looked lethargic in the second half of the loss that dropped them 1-2.…

  • Joanne Degnan

    By: centraljersey.com HIGHTSTOWN – The Borough Council this week unanimously approved new 2011 employment contracts for its top two public works employees in a move criticized by Republican mayoral candidate Rob Thibault as a bad deal for taxpayers. Larry Blake, whom the borough says earns $89,960 as the superintendent of both the Public Works and…

  • Roads close for Plainsboro fire parade

    By: centraljersey.com PLAINSBORO – Restrictions will be in place on four township roads between 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday for the Plainsboro Township Fire Department 50th Anniversary Parade. Between 1 and 2 p.m. there will be road closures for Edgemere Avenue, Pond View Drive, the exit/entrance of Fox Run Drive and Plainsboro Road between Edgemere…

  • Social Security must be protected

    Claire Edelman, of Monroe     Some politicians in Washington are still discussing cutting the Social Security benefits we’ve earned to reduce the federal budget deficit.    Social Security didn’t cause the deficit, and the contributions we’ve made over our lifetimes must be protected, not reduced!    Millions of seniors, widows and widowers, those living with disabilities, all…

  • Locals aid Express at swim meet

    By: centraljersey.com Eastern Express Silver/Bronze swimmers closed out the 2010 Long Course season recently at the 12-and-under Silver/Bronze Championships at Princeton University and the 13-and-over Silver Long Course Championships at Rutgers University. In the 12-and-under age group, West Windsor resident Marissa Kirkendoll was second in the Silver division 100 backstroke (1:19.35) and 400 IM (5:59.17),…

  • Police patrol pays off in arrests

    By: centraljersey.com PLAINSBORO – A plainclothes police patrol project in August used statistical analysis of old reports to net numerous arrests. Operation Blue C.R.U.S.H., for Crime Reduction Utilizing Statistical History, was an initiative borne out of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Summer Crime Trends report and an analysis of township crimes and quality of life…

  • Photo: Frank Wojciechowski

    By: centraljersey.com Virginia was born on Sept. 15, 1910, in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Philip F. Chapman, a prominent local lawyer and banker, and Gladys Doten, a leading figure in Maine’s women’s suffrage movement .While she missed seeing Halley’s Comet in 1910 by six months, she did see it in 1986. Virginia attended the…

  • Diversified group on Democratic ticket

    Camille Fernicola, of Piscataway     It pleases me to see such a well-blended, diversified group of candidates on the Middlesex County Democratic ticket for the November election.    The fact that three of the five candidates are highly capable, hard-working and qualified women is truly a sight to see. It shows that our county Democrats recognize…

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