• LAWRENCE: Departing councilman to focus on work, family

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Rick Miller always saw himself as a behind-the-scenes kind of guy.     While Mr. Miller was in high school, he worked on several political campaigns — at the federal level and even on the local level as he helped campaign for a family friend who ran for the township…

  • FISHER’S TUDOR HOUSE CELEBRATES NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH MURDER

    Traci Connaughton FISHER’S TUDOR HOUSE CELEBRATES NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH MURDER   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Traci Connaughton Business Manager Without A Cue Ph: (267) 994-1056  www.withoutacue.com       Fisher’s Tudor House Hosts “Death By Disco” on New Year’s Eve Bensalem, PA – Fisher’s Tudor House and Without A Cue Productions, LLC are proud to…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Budget hurdle looms

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    As 2009 ends, the biggest challenge facing the Township Council will be to deliver the 2010 budget with minimal tax increases for residents.    While the council is eyeing the completion of various road improvements it hopes to complete in the coming year, the budget remains the biggest hurdle to overcome…

  • LETTERS: A warm story for the holidays

    Arthur Roedel, Monmouth Junction    This is a holiday story to rival the one published by the New York Sun in 1897.     It was late in the afternoon the day before Christmas Eve and Mike Palumbo; my wife, Debbie, and I were preparing to leave when a young woman walked into our office. She wanted…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the Dec. 31 edition

    A weekly listing of community events. Soup sale     Friday, Jan. 8 — Trinity United Methodist Church is holding its vegetable-beef soup sale for takeout only at the church, 339 Farnsworth Ave., from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Order soon, they sell out quickly. $6 per quart. To order, call 298-3547 or 298-1814 by Sunday, Jan.…

  • LAWRENCE: Annual march carries on, remembering founder

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     For the first time since its inception in 1961, the annual re-enactment of the Col. Edward Hand Historic March — which takes place at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Municipal Building — will be missing one of its key characters.     Col. Hand will be there, but not former…

  • JUDAISM LECTURE SERIES AT HAR SINAI TEMPLE

    By Har Sinai Temple                Explaining the Intricacies of Judaism  HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP – Three courses designed to de-mystify the intricacies of Judaism will be held at Har Sinai Temple beginning Jan. 28.  Har Sinai’s Rabbi Stuart Pollack will conduct the trio of 90-minute lectures called "The Three Terrains of Judaism” that examine the prayerbook, synagogue…

  • LAWRENCE: Group lauds doctor for volunteer work

    LAWRENCE: Group lauds doctor for volunteer work

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Jerry Weisberg considers himself to be a very lucky man.     The self-described “poor boy from Brooklyn” studied hard and became a physician — the fulfillment of a childhood dream.     Dr. Weisberg, who has lived in Lawrence since 1982, spent the majority of his 50-year medical career in…

  • LAWRENCE: Resident’s plea for donations yielded gifts for 70

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     All Norma Taylor wanted for Christmas was 70 baskets of food.     Not for herself, but for some of the elderly residents at two affordable rental housing developments in Lawrence and Hamilton townships — Lawrence Plaza on Princeton Pike and the Alvin E. Gershen Apartments in Hamilton.     Ms.…

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