• WEST WINDSOR: HS South students walk out for employees

    By John Saccenti, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A group of West Windsor-Plainsboro South students showed that their lessons have been learned, Wednesday, when they brought their lessons on civil disobedience to life on school grounds.    About a hundred High School South students emerged from the school’s front doors at about 11:15 a.m., waving signs…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Elks’ tree sales aid special needs kids

    HILLSBOROUGH: Elks’ tree sales aid special needs kids

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Sunday was a beautiful day — perfect for taking extra time to select a Christmas tree, which many area residents did at the Manville-Hillsborough Elks Lodge on Brooks Boulevard.    The Elks have been selling the trees for many years with the proceeds going to their programs for special needs…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Reed Road could get animal shelter

    Targeted area is near where the Denow Road extension (from Route 31 west to Reed Road) will go By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Hopewell Township is pursuing the placement of a regional animal shelter on an isolated 46-acre tract off Reed Road, near I-95, Mayor Vanessa Sandom said Monday.    ”We’re having a second appraisal of…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: No trial date in sight for DiGirolamo

    Time elapsed not unusual, say lawyer, prosecutor’s office By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    Rosario DiGirolamo — the man charged with killing and dismembering his mistress, Amy Giordano, in her Hightstown apartment in June 2007 – apparently spent his second Thanksgiving at home with his family last week, with no trial date in his immediate future.…

  • MONTGOMERY: Referendum on school improvements Tuesday

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide on the Montgomery Township Board of Education’s $14.9 million bond referendum for health and safety upgrades to building systems at four of its schools.    The bond will support a $23.7 million project for facilities upgrades, primarily related to energy efficiency…

  • CRANBURY: Holiday lights, charitable might

    CRANBURY: Holiday lights, charitable might

    Phil McAuliffe Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe Matt Rusnock, of Monroe, gets ready to hang Christmas lights on his friend Keith Shaw’s Cranbury Home.

  • MANVILLE: Winning bid for school funds

    MANVILLE: Winning bid for school funds

    Student Tanner Bruckman presents Kim Monto with the “High School Musical” basket she won. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • CRANBURY: Holiday lights, charitable might

    CRANBURY: Holiday lights, charitable might

    Phil McAuliffe Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe Mike Provost, of Chesterfield, gets help from 4-year-old Alexander Shaw as they work on Christmas decorations for Keith and Alexander Shaw’s Cranbury home.

  • My brothers’ keeper

    Rev. Charles J. Stephens, Titusville     It seems that “Health Care Overhaul” is hanging by a thread in the U.S. Senate. And the big reason why 45,000 uninsured people (men, women and children) in the United States will die next year and every year is because the Roman Catholic bishops are holding the bill hostage…

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