Category: archives

  • Creating a courtyard laboratory

    County grant pays for environmental projects By:Donna Lukiw    Auten Road Intermediate School will be able to finish the addition of a courtyard and arboretum area at the school after receiving a $1,000 environmental grant.    The grant from the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the county Division of Solid Waste Management was awarded to…

  • Towns won’t hurry to invoke eminent domain

    Editorial: The U.S. Supreme Court decision on eminent domain will not likely have an impact on this area. Powerful interests on all sides of the issue have wasted no time weighing in on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the right of government to use the power of eminent domain to spur economic development.…

  • A history of Upper Freehold, Part 1 of 2

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    From the "History of Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1664-1920," published by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company in 1922.     Upper Freehold is in the extreme southwestern portion of the county, Millstone being the only [other Monmouth county] township which adjoins it, and forms its northern and northeastern boundary. The other bounds are: on…

  • Murder by the book

    Mystery novel author Lisa Long Martelli will sign copies of her latest book at Borders Express on Saturday. By:Kate Herts Staff Writer Lauren Shaw is a caring and successful citizen. She is also the common denominator in a series of crimes ranging from embezzlement to murder. When her father’s lifeless body is found, Lauren is…

  • School memories still bring smiles after 60 years

    Members of St. Mary’s School Classes of 1944, 1945 and 1946 gathered last month for a reunion in Bordentown City to share memories and stories. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — Six decades have passed, bringing ups and downs to a city in constant change, but nobody forgets a class clown.    At least nobody from…

  • Borough residents protest yeshiva plans

    Roosevelt residents protest plan to bring a private, intensive religious school for Jewish children to the town. By: Lauren Burgoon    ROOSEVELT — Plans to bring a yeshiva — a private, intensive religious school for Jewish children — to Roosevelt is drawing the community’s ire.    Neighbors fear the school could change the small town’s character, while…

  • LETTERS: Rewriting history

    To the editor:     I was watching the Township Council on June 28, 2005, and noticed an interesting attempt by the council to rewrite history. In a discussion of an open space proposal, the mayor and council began patting themselves on the back saying what a great open space purchase the 86 acres now containing…

  • Student’s query gets lunch delivered

    By:Mary Ellen Zangara    Fourth-graders in Dianne Meyer’s class at Roosevelt School learned firsthand about the importance of communications in the business world, enjoying a free lunch before the end of the school year.    As part of a class assignment, the students wrote to area businesses with either complaints, compliments or requests, Ms. Meyer said.    Student…

  • Bordentown baseball 12’s win two of first three games

    By: Sean Moylan    The Bordentown 12-year-old Little League All-Star baseball team displayed its awesome power with blowout wins over Allentown and North Trenton this past week.    However, a 10-0 loss to Sunnybrae at Sunnybrae in Tuesday’s rain hurt Bordentown’s chances of advancing out of Pool A going into last night’s (Wednesday) home game versus Millstone-Roosevelt.…