Author: Central Jersey

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police report incidents on Bloomingdale Drive 

    Two Bloomingdale Drive residents reported incidents to police Aug. 2. One said that sometime overnight someone removed the patio furniture from his front porch and threw it into the pond behind his residence Value of the items was put at $150. Another reported the theft of flowers, valued at $10, from a front deck sometime…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: College grads share news of achievement  

    Hillsborough resident Austin Maxwell graduated from Kutztown (Pa.) University in the spring with a bachelor of science degree in business administration. He also attained the dean’s list in the spring semester. Austin graduated in 2011 from Immaculata High School. * * *  Jennifer Rossi of Hillsborough graduated from Penn State University Smeal College of Business…

  • EDITORIAL: Joint Effort weekend helps keep community intact

     What’s become an annual tradition returned to Princeton last weekend, the Joint Effort-Princeton Pete Young Sr. Memorial Safe Streets Weekend. The event has been the creation of John Bailey, who grew up in Princeton and South Brunswick, but now lives and works in Denver. Begun as a basketball game, the event has grown into…

  • PRINCETON: Mysterious and critical, emails rankle officials

    PRINCETON: Mysterious and critical, emails rankle officials

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Bears were beating the Jets and the Princeton Council meeting was going late on Monday, Sept.22, 2014, when Mayor Liz Lempert received an anonymous message to her municipal email account around 11:02 p.m. “Liz—you are nothing but a publicity whore, whose mommy was a mayor and so you…

  • PRINCETON: PU football itching to start preseason

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor The countdown is on for the Princeton University football team. Coaches and players alike can sit and watch all sorts of coverage of the start of pre-season football practices everywhere seemingly but the Ivy League. The Tigers won’t report until next Tuesday and start practicing until Aug. 27. It’s…

  • PLAINSBORO: Pitch perfect

    PLAINSBORO: Pitch perfect

    By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Both Kevin Mackenzie and Trevor Warner got their first varsity soccer head coaching jobs with the first-year West Windsor-Plainsboro High North programs. Now, 16 years later, the two are still at the helm of the Knights soccer programs — Mackenzie with the girls team and Warner as head coach of…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: A number of techniques can help curb incontinence

    By Dr. Nina Bhatia, Princeton HealthCare System  Is your urge to go bringing your life to a stop? Do you run to the bathroom instead of running around the track? If incontinence is interfering with your daily activities, it’s time to seek help. With the right treatment approach, you can control incontinence rather than…

  • LOOSE ENDS: An issue that’s ruffling some feathers

    LOOSE ENDS: An issue that’s ruffling some feathers

    By Pam Hersh Some would say I am egging Princetonians on by bringing up the following fact: The ultra-thorough Princeton Consolidation Study neglected to deal with one very hairy — or more accurately feathery — conundrum: chickens as backyard pets. I predict that the next cockeyed Princeton zoning ordinance controversy to take place — rivaling…

  • PRINCETON: A picture perfect business for more than half a century

    PRINCETON: A picture perfect business for more than half a century

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer From a creaky swivel chair inside his shop on Spring Street, David S. Rosendorf has as good a view as any of the world around him in downtown Princeton. He likes to say he is 74 “going on 29,” someone who has spent more than half a century being…