Category: archives

  • PRESS FORUM: How should the state address the looming shortfall in its pension funds?

    PRESS FORUM Join the debate.    The Cranbury Press is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of Cranbury, Jamesburg and Monroe want…

  • Pre-Press Coordinator – entry level (Nights)

    The Princeton Packet, an award-winning group of community newspapers has an immediate opening for a night-shift entry level Pre-Press Coordinator. HOURS: Monday – Thursday, approx 2:00 pm – 12:00 am (must be flexible with schedule as deadlines demand, including some Sunday evenings). Will assist with effort to get news pages and ad materials output for…

  • LETTERS: Bush support a bit crazy

    To the editor:     Isn’t it sad that the pro-war people cannot allow Cindy Sheehan to protest without rallying forces to try to cancel her out.    I don’t know if she’s right or wrong but she has a right to do what she’s doing and it would really be gracious of the pro-war crowd to…

  • Volunteers: Help is on the way

    Outpouring of support comes in form of time, donations By: Emily Craighead    She was supposed to start classes at New York University next week, but instead, Amelia Muccio is using a week of vacation from work and skipping classes to spend two weeks helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.    Wednesday afternoon, she was in a car…

  • Epilepsy test aids diagnosis

    …seizure is the third most common neurological condition among the elderly, following stroke and Alzheimer’s disease By: John W. Vester, M.D., in Collaboration with Gloria N. Beck    Most people think of epilepsy as a condition you are born with, resulting in periodic seizures throughout your lifetime. But the truth of the matter is that anyone…

  • Lions aiding flood victims

    Area clubs make donations to 40 Jamesburg families. By: Melissa Hayes    JAMESBURG — The area Lions Clubs are giving $10,000 in Pathmark gift certificates to 40 borough families whose homes sustained catastrophic damage in the July flood.    The Lions distributed cards to about 20 of those families Saturday, and they’re hoping that more residents who…

  • Elemental Journeys

    Book artists focus on the themes of earth, fire, air and water at the Hunterdon Museum. By: Jillian Kalonick    An armadillo. Ashes in a glass container. A scorched box. Wood painted with blood.    These media are used to make artist books in The Elements: Earth, Fire, Air, Water, on view at the Hunterdon Museum of…

  • Money to update walking tour book

    Cranbury History Center highlights the town’s sites in a new edition of the Walking Tour guide. By: Chinenye Okparanta    The Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society is getting some help from Middlesex County to publish an updated pamphlet guiding walkers on a tour of the township’s historical sites.    The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and…

  • Montgomery Republican to open campaign headquarters

    By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Ed Sherman, Republican candidate for Township Committee, will host an event recognizing the grand opening of his campaign headquarters from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 9.    "The purpose of establishing a campaign headquarters was not just to have a centralized place for our volunteers to work," Mr. Sherman said, but…