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      January 8, 2009  RSS feed
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      SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rich Wolfert and other participants in Saturday's East Brunswick Winter Bird Count take inventory at the Edgeboro Landfill, one of several stops during the day. Wolfert and other members of the Environmental Commission asked residents to watch for birds and report their species and numbers. More...
      Tracts targeted for affordable housing
      Units will be built for veterans, disabled, seniors
      BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer

      Monroe officials have chosen two sites where they plan to fulfill the township's state affordable housing obligation. In time for the year-end New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) deadline, the tracts were designated for developments that will include municipally sponsored affordable housing elements. More...

      Stahl gets to work in E.B.
      Two new council members take oaths in East Brunswick
      BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer

      Anew year has brought the township a new mayor and a partly new East Brunswick Township Council. David Stahl was sworn in as mayor during the Jan. 1 Township Council meeting, and Denise Contrino took her first oath as councilwoman, replacing longtime Councilman Donald Klemp on the dais. Meanwhile, Nancy Pinkin was sworn in to her second four-year term on the council. More...


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      ERIC SUCAR staff Ruth Cronley (l) and Funmi Adedokun do the Zumba, a Latin-themed exercise-dance routine, during a Dec. 31 class at the Raritan Valley YMCA in East Brunswick. More...


       Bulletin Board
      • Fitness programs on tap in Monroe
      The Monroe Township Recreation Department is offering a new session of exercise and fitness programs for Monroe residents. Classes are open to Monroe residents only; a township identification card must be obtained prior to registration at the Monroe Community Center, 120 Monmouth Road. More...
      • Spotswood Library sponsoring Book Sale
      • Library looking for VCR, Web-site assist
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       Letters
      • Cutting taxes imperative for local officials today
      It's a time when many, if not most, households and businesses are being forced to make do with less. The crumbling economy has brought income cuts or freezes and, for some, the real possibility of layoffs. Housing values are down and home foreclosures are up. And the cost of living continues to rise for most. More...
      • Don't allow Milltown to become Pottersville
      • A workable solution to the current foreclosure crisis
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       Editorials
      • For the Record
      Samantha Griggs, 10, of Helmetta, is a member of the Golden Bear Chargers Pee Wee cheerleading team that won a national championship in Walt Disney World last month. Her name was omitted from a Dec. 31 story on the Pop Warner squad. More...
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       Greg Bean's Column
      • article has image Discovering family history, one creased letter at a time
      It seems like when the kids move out, they're never really gone because they leave so much junk behind. But at our house, it isn't the kids who are responsible for all the accumulated archeological detritus. My wife and I save things as well. Boxes and boxes of photographs. Birthday cards. Important papers. More...
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       Obituaries
      • Margaret Anne Berndt
      Mrs. Berndt, 70, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 21, 2008, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Jersey City, she was a resident of East Brunswick for 40 years. Mrs. Berndt was a teacher in the East Brunswick School District for 21 years, having taught at the Hammarskjöld, Churchill and Bowne-Munroe schools before retiring in 2001. More...
      • Adeline "Dolly" Wranovics
      • Sidney Fisch
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       Sports
      • article has image Rutgers squanders big opportunity
      JEFF GRANIT staff Tennessee's Amber Gray (10) celebrates with teammates in the final seconds of her team's 55-51 win over Rutgers at the Louis Brown Athletic Center in Piscataway on Jan. 3. The Knights held a 20-point lead at halftime. Rutgers' Epiphanny Prince (10) totaled a game high 25 points. The team's next game is Sunday at Louisville. More...
      • E.B. bowling to face many tough teams this season
      • Monroe girls basketball still looking for first win
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