Author: Central Jersey

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pulimood is Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year

    WEST WINDSOR: Pulimood is Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor It was fitting that Nikhil Pulimood’s best race was his last one for the West Windsor-Plainboro South boys track and field team. The senior had watched the Pirates who came before him run their best as seniors, and he wanted to do the same. “You’re never going to get…

  • PRINCETON: Intermediate baseball team one win from Section 3 title

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor After the Princeton Little League made a commitment to playing 50/70 baseball three years ago, they saw the benefits in sustained participation numbers. Players like playing with Major League Baseball rules that, unlike the 40/60 league rules, allow leading off and pick-offs. With the mound back 10-feet further, pitchers…

  • MONTGOMERY: Cassar wrestling against best

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Anthony Cassar established himself as the greatest wrestler in Montgomery High School history in 2014. This summer, he’s finding out how far wrestling can take him. “I haven’t done much traveling outside the tri-state area,” Cassar said. “It seems like that’s changing now.” The MHS graduate is picking up…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Cannon ‘Outstanding Lineman’ for East in Sunshine Classic

    HIGHTSTOWN: Cannon ‘Outstanding Lineman’ for East in Sunshine Classic

    By Rich Fisher, Packet Media Group EWING – Prior to the Sunshine Football Classic, Mackenzie Cannon promised he was going to play harder than he ever had in his life, despite the fact it was only an All-Star game. Cannon not only lived up to his promise, he was rewarded for it. Hightstown High’s lone…

  • PRINCETON: Judge’s decision could impact tax-exemption lawsuit

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A landmark tax court decision last month saying Morristown Memorial Hospital had failed to qualify for a property tax exemption was made by the same judge who will rule on a similar challenge to Princeton University’s exemption. Judge Vito L. Bianco, in a 91-page ruling that is expected to…

  • PRINCETON: New school contract details pay increases, health-care contributions

    PRINCETON: New school contract details pay increases, health-care contributions

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A new four-year teacher contract in Princeton calls for annual salary raises of around 2.6 percent and mandates employees pay a health-care deductible for the first time. The deal, retroactive to last July, ended a stalemate that dragged on for 12 months. Salary and health-care contributions were the two…

  • MONTGOMERY: Township approves pay hikes to all non-union employees

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — Township administrative staff and department heads — from the township administrator to the police director, the superintendent of Public Works and the tax assessor — are going to receive pay hikes of 1.75 percent. Township Committee adopted a resolution last week granting the 1.75-percent pay increase to all…

  • MONTGOMERY: Zoning board delays decision on Dunkin Donuts proposal

    MONTGOMERY: Zoning board delays decision on Dunkin Donuts proposal

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — The developer of a Dunkin Donuts store, proposed for a vacant building on the corner of Route 206 and Route 518, will find out later this month whether the Zoning Board of Adjustment will approve the application. The zoning board members listened Tuesday night as developer Montgomery 206…

  • LAWRENCE: Valve from irrigation equipment stolen from The Gatherings

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer LAWRENCE – Someone stole a backflow preventer valve from irrigation equipment installed at The Gatherings development, off Copperfield Drive, sometime between June 10 and June 20, according to police Detective Sgt. Joseph Lech IV. This is the latest in a string of thefts of similar irrigation equipment in the past…