• HILLSBOROUGH: Library program features blood, guts and gore

    HILLSBOROUGH: Library program features blood, guts and gore

    Makeup artist Stephen Davis’ faux-gunshot wound on Jacquelyn Kazim’s head was so realistic, some of the program participants couldn’t look at it. Staff photos by Audrey Levine

  • CRANBURY: An end of an icon
  • HIGHTSTOWN: Police Beat

    br>     Police said officers received a report of a suspicious male in a vehicle taking a picture of a female child playing on the 100 block of Bennett Place at 2:41 p.m. Monday. The person was described as being a tanned white man or a light skinned Hispanic man with dirty blonde hair operating…

  • LAWRENCE: June gloom dampens farmers’ fall plantings

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     If April showers bring May flowers, what do June showers bring?     Lots of weeds, said George McCormick as he pointed to a pile of the unwanted green stuff in his plot at Lawrence Township’s Community Gardens on Route 206 Tuesday afternoon.     Last month’s rainfall, which totaled 6.6…

  • CRANBURY: Creating a love of books at the library

    CRANBURY: Creating a love of books at the library

    Phil McAuliffe Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe Brothers Thibaud and Jalloun Ginoux pet a Flemish giant rabbit at a petting zoo outside the Cranbury Library on Monday.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: State breaks ground on Turnpike widening

    by Sean Ruppert, The Packet Group    Gov. Jon Corzine was in East Windsor last week to break ground on the $2.7 billion project to widen the N.J. Turnpike between exits 6 and 8A in South Brunswick.    The project will add 170 lane miles to the road and will result in the highway having six lanes…

  • CRANBURY: Suspicious activity around town triggers police alert

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Township police are asking residents to be cautious following reports last week of suspicious activity in the area.    According to a press release issued by the Police Department, a male and female driving a blue, possibly greenish-blue sports utility vehicle approached a Plainsboro Road resident and asked if…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: School officials struggling to resolve issues in district merger

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    The logistics of merging the Millstone school district with the Hillsborough school district remain a mystery currently, as administrators aren’t certain how the merger would affect the towns.    Last week, Gov. John Corzine signed legislature eliminating the states’ non-operating school districts, like Millstone Borough, and merged them with districts their…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: DWI charges follow parking lot crashes

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    South Brunswick police arrested a Monmouth Junction man on drunken-driving charges early Saturday following a hit-and-run accident at an area motel.    Kenneth J. Arhakos, of Monmouth Junction, was issued several summonses for driving while intoxicated and other motor vehicle violations, police said.    At approximately 3 a.m., police were dispatched to…

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