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Real estate affordability is good for buyers and sellers
By Gloria Zastko Everyone seems to agree that the housing market is rebounding, as home sales posted their biggest percentage gain in more than two years. This is good news, especially in light of the slide in home prices and the overall state of our economy over the past several years. Despite a recent increase…
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Two Toll Brothers’ communities open for sale to high demand
Monroe Chase and Regency at Readington Villas Collection, two of Toll Brothers’ newest communities in New Jersey, opened on Sept. 21 to high demand, capturing deposits on every home site in the initial offering of homes. “The rapid pace of sales this past weekend is evidence that buyers have confidence in Toll Brothers’ well-known reputation,…
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SPORT SHORTS
Spotswood Youth Baseball will hold a general public meeting at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in the municipal courtroom at Spotswood Borough Hall, 77 Summerhill Road. Board positions are available. The Rutgers Basketball Court Club has a new promotion. In addition to the usual benefits from joining the Court Club, those who join receive two free…
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Rams remain undefeated despite injury to top rusher
SOUTH RIVER By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent For those opponents who thought the loss of Doug Ryan due to injury would have a negative impact on the South River High School football team’s ability to run the ball, think again. The Rams do not depend on one player. Ryan, a 5-foot-11-inch junior who rushed for over…
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Jazz great shares music history
By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Herbie Hancock Fifty years of performances, recordings and jam sessions later, Herbie Hancock remains the maverick of the music business he set out to be at the age of 14. It was then that Hancock, already a child prodigy on the piano, witnessed his first jazz performance during a student…
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Community invited to Oct. 5 Green Fair
The Monroe Township Environmental Commission and the Monroe Township Public Library will sponsor the fourth annual Green Fair 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 5 at Oak Tree School, Applegarth Road. The fair will feature a shredder truck, freecycling, a bicycle exchange, games and story times for children, hybrid and electric vehicles, solar energy, a…
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Men’s Club supports local organizations
MONROE — For six years, the Stonebridge Men’s Club has been actively supporting the Monroe Township community. This year, the Men’s Club supported two local organizations through its fundraising efforts. The first recipient was the Academy Learning Center, which serves approximately 140 children who have autism or multiple disabilities. The Men’s Club raised $10,000 to…
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Marcos Rodriguez Sr.
Mr. Rodriguez, 76, of Monroe, died Sept. 22, 2013, at home. Surviving are his wife, Lydia E. Villanueva Rodriguez; five children, Judy Rodriguez, Anna Salvadore, and her husband, Richard, Marcos Rodriguez Jr., and his wife, Charlotte, and Stephanie Rodriguez, all of Monroe, and Jennifer Rodriguez, and her husband, Richard Musse, of Manalapan; two siblings, Urbano…
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Richard W. Lumbreyer
Mr. Lumbreyer, 74, of South River, died Sept. 18, 2013, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He served on the South River Civil Defense Board and was past president of the South River Board of Health. He was predeceased by his wife, Carol Ann Kalicki Lumbreyer. Surviving are two sons, William and Alann…
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