• SOLEBURY: Township police laud crime-stoppers

    SOLEBURY: Township police laud crime-stoppers

    Shown above (from left) are Officer Mark Chaikin, Chief Dominick Bellizzie and Sgt. Steve Meredith.

  • MANVILLE: Church mixes fun with faith at this year’s summer camp

    MANVILLE: Church mixes fun with faith at this year’s summer camp

    Camp organizer Carol Cigler and the Rev. Lukasz Drozak present bikes to drawing winners Nicholas Mattei, Anna Miga, Kinga Niewiadomski and Michael DaRocha. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • MILLSTONE: Township sees first Habitat project

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    MILLSTONE — The Western Monmouth branch of Habitat for Humanity soon will break ground for its first project in the township, one that is being built specifically for a disabled veteran or surviving family members.    The organization, a nonprofit international ministry, began plans for the one-story, three-bedroom, single-family house…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Wet weather slows Plymouth road project

    Plymouth Street extension is traffic management tool for area of Route 31 south of Pennington Circle By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Mud.    It’s the reason why the Plymouth Street extension project in Hopewell Township isn’t done yet.    ”We’re literally knee deep in mud out there now,” township Administrator/Engineer Paul Pogorzelski said at Monday night’s Township…

  • MANVILLE; Borough briefs

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Sewer work to be re-bid    The Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday to re-bid for a contractor for its sanitary sewer grouting phase III project.    According to the resolution, the four bids that were initially submitted to the council were not accepted, so Special Engineer James DeMuro will re-bid…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Moratorium on new taxi licenses remains in place

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — The town’s moratorium on the issuance of new licenses for taxicab companies and drivers will remain in place after the Borough Council defeated a measure that would have lifted the ban by a 4-2 vote.    Councilwoman Isabel McGinty and Councilman Dave Schneider were the only two members that…

  • CRANBURY RETROSPECTIVE

       10 Years Ago – 1999     • Anne and Ken Gordon and their two little girls, Sarah, 9, and Abby, 5, have moved into the Chermak house and it seems as though they’ve lived here forever. Ken is employed by Merrill Lynch in Jersey City and Anne is a full-time mom at home. In Cranbury tradition,…

  • Energy vote was in state’s best interest

    U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance, R-7th    On June 26, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the “American Clean Energy and Security Act.”    I voted in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act because the legislation greatly benefits New Jersey. The measure also moves us closer to a national energy policy that reduces our…

  • CRANBURY: They got the beat

    CRANBURY: They got the beat

    Photo by Phil McAuliffe. Melissa Katz, 13, of South Brunswick, works on fashion design during summer camp at Cranbury school on Tuesday.

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