• CRANBURY: Calling all Muggles!

    CRANBURY: Calling all Muggles!

    Staff photo by John Keating. From left, Sheila Wenzler as Hagrid, Severine Stier as Dumbledore and Jessica Blackburn as Professor Snape during the show’s finale.

  • MONROE: Finding humor at the movies

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — Rolling around in the middle of aisle in PetsMart, cross-dressing to give dating tips and looking for aliens in the attic — it’s just another day in the life of two Monroe High School students who have turned into a quasi celebrities after becoming regulars on a national…

  • PRINCETON: Plasma Physics Lab gets $13.8 million grant

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — Federal stimulus funding worth $13.8 million has been earmarked for use at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory under a two-year grant announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Energy.    The grant provides $8.8 million for fusion energy initiatives plus an additional $5 million for work on infrastructure at…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the Aug. 6 edition

    A weekly listing of community events. Peach social     Friday, Aug. 7 — A peach social will be held at the Bordentown Historical Society, 302 Farnsworth Ave., from 5 to 8 p.m. Fresh pie a la mode, melba and sundaes. Old time music by Jim Allen and Co. For more information, call Suzanne at 298-3481.…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Try pizza with the taste of Naples

    HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Try pizza with the taste of Naples

    Tom Grim, owner of Nomad Pizza, stands in a small garden next to rustic wooden trellises, created by local craftsman David Robinson.

  • JAMESBURG/MONROE RETROSPECTIVE

       10 Years Ago – 1999     • Many residents of Monroe are looking forward to the Middlesex County Fair. “We like to help people, it’s fun and it’s a good deed,” said David Earl Jr., 18, of Monroe, who has been involved in 4-H since he was 5. His sister, Amy, 22, also contributes her time…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: From borough bed to bestseller list

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — When she was a young girl in the 1950s, Marita Ropars — today Marita Robb — was confined to her family’s Monmouth Street home for several months with an illness.    During that time, her mother would go back and forth to the Hightstown Library by Peddie Lake nearly…

  • MONTGOMERY: Promenade project frozen by recession

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer   MONTGOMERY — Plans for an upscale shopping center at the intersection of routes 206 and 518 have been put on hold indefinitely as a result of the economic downturn.    The center, known as Montgomery Promenade, was to include 325,000 square feet of retail space and a central plaza on a…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A Night Out with neighbors and the police (w/video)

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