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Judge denies E.B.’s call to dismiss lawsuit
Stahl: Ruling marks start of lengthy legal battle BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Round one may have gone to Toll Brothers, but according to Mayor David Stahl, the legal battle is just getting started. A state Superior Court judge recently refused a motion by East Brunswick to dismiss Toll Brothers’ lawsuit. In…
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Annual show keeps a balanced ‘budgie’
Area residents enjoy raising, breeding exhibition parakeets BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Parakeet enthusiasts came to the borough from as far away as New England and Virginia to attend the 19th annual Tri-State Budgerigar Society (TSBS) show July 18. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Pauline Domenge of Virginia and Diane Ziegman of Pennsylvania talk parakeets…
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Congress comes through with $500,000 for meters
Automated remote electric, water meters coming to S.R. BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer South River will receive $500,000 from the federal government to install automated remote meters for electricity users throughout town. Congress approved the funding on Friday as part of the federal Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, despite attempts to strike specific programs included…
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Volunteers look out for the isolated elderly
Local residents among a thinning group of advocates at nursing homes in N.J. BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer For Phil Zipser, it’s the friendships that have kept him visiting nursing homes for the past 13 years. Phil Zipser The Monroe resident spends several hours every week at a long-term facility in Englishtown, trying to reach…
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JEFF GRANIT staff Matthew Bash, 11, of Monroe, competes in the waterslide relay during the fourth annual Community Friendship Games at Geick Park in Old Bridge July 15. Kids ages 10 and 11 from summer camps in Monroe, Edison and Old Bridge competed in a day of games, with Monroe emerging victorious.
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Lydia M. St. Martin Young
Mrs. Young, 100, of the Whiting section of Manchester, formerly of East Brunswick, died July 10, 2009. Prior to her retirement in 1979, she was employed as a food server at Bowne-Munro School, East Brunswick, where she worked for five years. Her first husband, Joseph Dionne, died in 1929; her second husband, William Valley, died…
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Mafalda “Mickey” Patten
Mrs. Patten, 81, of Monroe, formerly of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died July 15, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are a son, Craig A. Patten, and his wife, Cathy, of Monroe; and two grandchildren, Anthony and Ashley Patten. A memorial service was held at Spotswood Funeral Home. Cremation was…
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John C. Stadelman
Mr. Stadelman, 31, of Monroe, formerly of Milltown, died July 9, 2009, at home. He was an investigative detective for the state of New Jersey Office of Homeland Security since 2005 and was assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Newark. His mother, Leila Maroun Stadelman, died in 2002. He also was predeceased by…
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Helen S. Kostbar
Mrs. Kostbar, 47, of Jamesburg, died July 15, 2009, in Ocean Medical Center, Brick. She was a paralegal and office manager for the Jamesburg law practice of her husband, Otto J. Kostbar. She was a former secretary of the Jamesburg Zoning Board. Surviving are her husband, Otto; her parents, Tom and Myrtle Hastings of the…
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