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January 8, 2009
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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 nu... 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 h... 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... More...


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...


Mostly new governing body at reins in S.R.
Eppinger, council members look at the year ahead
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer

As the new year gets started, South River Mayor Raymond T. Eppinger and the Borough Council reflected on the past year as well as what lies ahead. Eppinger, beginning his second year as mayor of the borough of 15,738 residents, looked at the past year as a time of some basic changes. 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 ri... 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
•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. Import... 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 Hammarskj&ou... More...
•Adeline "Dolly" Wranovics
•Sidney Fisch
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 Sports
•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. Th... More...
•E.B. bowling to face many tough teams this season
•Monroe girls basketball still looking for first win
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