• CRANBURY: Township pleased with $300K DOT grant award

    CRANBURY: Township pleased with $300K DOT grant award

    By Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer CRANBURY – Between Mother Nature’s annual show of seasonal beauty and the downtown beautification project, Main Street is starting to look fresh all over. "The exciting thing is (that) we did receive notification last week that we were awarded a third round grant for downtown beautification," Mayor Susan Goetz…

  • Please become member and pitch in as well

    Joseph Carney, Glenwood  To the editor: Last October I wrote an open letter to New Jersey’s governor about Washington Crossing State Park. I shared it with the public. This beautiful, historic park needs the investment of state funds to overcome the damage done by two hurricanes and this winter’s ice storms. Many from New…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Local mosque condemns Nigerian kidnapping

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Local mosque condemns Nigerian kidnapping

    Azra Baig photo. The Islamic Society of Central Jersey on Route 1 in Monmouth Junction.

  • Back in action

    Q&A with Sharon Peters Q: I have some back issues that are rather significant and on long road trips the pain is reduced somewhat if I can tweak the height or angle of the seat slightly for a little while. So I want whatever car has the greatest number of power adjustments on the driver’s…

  • Pickup sheds pounds but is no lightweight

    By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features The redesigned 2015 Ford F-150 leverages aluminum to minimize weight and boost its fuel economy, but without sacrificing utility. A utomakers — particularly the domestic brands — would seem to be in a pickle these days regarding their full-size pickup truck lines. With the U.S. economy firmly in recovery mode,…

  • REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

    Hal Maxwell, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y., announces the company’s list of 2013 Coldwell Banker award winners in Middlesex County. The affiliated sales associates who earned the International President’s Circle award for their sales success in 2013 include: Suk Chiu-Ng of the East Brunswick office; and Nancy…

  • Coldwell Banker parent company ranked No. 1 by REAL Trends 500

    Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y. announces that its parent company, NRT LLC, was ranked the No. 1 residential real estate brokerage firm in the United States for the 17th consecutive year in the newly released REAL Trends 500 report, based on annual research that identifies the country’s largest and…

  • Vacation-home sales up, investment-home sales down

    Judging by the numbers, many more Americans will be enjoying vacation homes this summer. Vacation-home sales jumped nearly 30 percent in 2013 to an estimated 717,000 new- and existinghome sales, up from 533,000 in 2012. Vacation-home sales made up 13 percent of all transactions in 2013, their highest share since 2006. The median vacation-home price…

  • Take a look at today’s prefab homes

    By Alex Gallucci CTW Features Modern premade homes offer style, energy efficiency, from start to finish, in a fraction of the time of traditionally built homes The concept of prefabricated homes has been utilized for centuries, but today’s consumers increasingly have more options when it comes to customization and building methods than their forebears ever…

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