• Monroe residents share message of acceptance

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Author Frances Greenblatt and illustrator Martin Rich, both of Monroe’s Concordia community, present a message of equality in their book “The Purple Cow.” MONROE — We may look different on the outside, but inside we’re all the same. That simple concept about diversity and acceptance is the…

  • South River seeks grant for firehouse

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — The Borough Council is seeking grant funding to help subsidize the construction of a new George Street firehouse. Officials toured the firehouse earlier this month and said it is in much need of repair due to sinking floors and dilapidated conditions. Councilman Peter Guindi, who is a…

  • Clearbrook’s Green Fair promotes energy efficiency

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer MONROE — Residents in one of the township’s adult communities are looking to go green, and they’re inviting everyone else to go along with them. The Clearbrook Community Association (CCA) will sponsor a Green Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 20, the first of what it expects will…

  • Schools chief goes over numbers behind Monroe school system

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The Monroe school district’s strengths are staff commitment, community and board support, resources such as the Township Council, committed bargaining units, and growth. Its weaknesses include voter apathy, complacency, and program fragmentation. That’s according to Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Hamilton, who gave a by-the-numbers breakdown of the district in a…

  • Super calls for unity in improving district

    Hamilton not content with a good school system BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Monroe Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Hamilton sees himself as an educator who truly believes that his work is his mission. “I believe that part of why I enjoy my work so much is because it is what I was born to do,”…

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    STEVEN M. BARON A 2001 Chevrolet minivan sits lodged in the side wall of Denny’s restaurant on Route 18 around 11:45 a.m. June 10. Police said Estelle Glatter, 49, of Edison, was pulling into a parking stall when she accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake and struck the building. The vehicle shattered…

  • Trimmed tax increase now stands at 20 cents

    Expenses down, but not nearly as much as revenue BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Once faced with a municipal tax increase of more than 40 cents due to a severe revenue shortfall, East Brunswick officials are now looking at about half that increase. During its June 8 meeting, the Township Council approved a budget resolution…

  • Farmers setting up shop Saturdays in Jamesburg

    Second-year market moved to church lot on Gatzmer Ave. BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer It’s a bigger market and officials hope a better one as well. The Jamesburg Farmers Market opened Saturday, a week earlier than last year’s inaugural run, with more vendors and a new location. The vendors that last year set up shop…

  • Clair B. Stearns

    Mr. Stearns, 69, of Panama, Ohio, died June 3, 2009, in Cleveland. He had lived in Milltown and East Brunswick before moving to Ohio 30 years ago. Mr. Stearns was a union iron worker in New Jersey and Ohio and had been a Sunday school teacher and deacon trustee at the Assembly of God Church…

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