Category: archives

  • He took wrestling to ‘DeHart’

    Lawrence High School junior had breakthrough season By: Kyle Moylan    In a way, Alex DeHart’s wrestling career started as almost a form of punishment.    Now, DeHart makes sure to punish most of the other wrestlers that step on to the mat with him.    The Lawrence High junior recently finished off a season in which he…

  • School can do more to communicate

    To the editor By:    I would like to thank Ms. Wohlmacher, president of the Woodfern Home and School Association for her passionate though hostile rebuttal to my editorial regarding school policies and communications systems between parents of students and the school.    If there were any inaccuracies in the article, I apologize but I think Ms.…

  • Pawel Pilipiszyn

       Pawel Pilipiszyn, 86, died Monday at Rolling Hills Care Center, Lebanon.    Born in the Ukraine, Mr. Pilipiszyn has been a resident of Hopewell since the 1950s.    He was a carpenter who worked for several contractors during his career.    Preceded in death by his parents Ivan and Anelela Pilipiszyn and his wife Edith Guthrie Pilipiszyn, he…

  • SBHS stuck together despite losses

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    One of the benefits of participating in team sports is that the athletes learn how to work in a group toward a common goal. Depending on the personalities involved, this can be a form of torture, or one of the best experiences of high school. Luckily for the girls on the…

  • DISPATCHES: New rules to eradicate ethical quagmire

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet Report calls for a revamp of the state ethics commission.    New Jersey politicians have a well-deserved reputation for bad behavior.    From the days of the Hague administration in Jersey City in the 1930s to the ethical quagmires that chased U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli and Gov. James McGreevey from office in recent…

  • Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts music night

       MONTGOMERY — The Montgomery Center for the Arts will host a Folk and World Music Night at the 1860 House on Saturday from 8 to 11:30 p.m.    The evening will feature Irish music in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, as well as folk, world, swing and jazz.    Bands to perform include Dotty and Friends, the…

  • Former Devil to promote reading

    Fomer New Jersey Devil Bruce Driver will be signing autographs at the Princeton Sports Arena. By: Joseph Harvie    Reading can help you accomplish any goal, and on Saturday a former New Jersey Devils player will drive home this point to a few youth hockey teams from New Jersey.    Former New Jersey Devil defenseman Bruce Driver…

  • SCHOOLS: Measuring madness

    Math can be fun, especially when games are involved. By: Sarah Winkelman EditorMarch is measuring month at St. Augustine of Canterbury School and the students are all getting in on the fun.    On Monday, students in the three pre-kindergarten classes paired up with fifth- and eighth-graders to complete three measurement exercises aimed at teaching them…

  • ‘Battle’ tests readers’ literary chops

    MacFarland Junior School students were among those in the "Battle of the Books" last week. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — It is not the baseball championship game or the daunting soccer tryouts, but it can be just as competitive and gut-wrenching.    It is the Battle of the Books, that annual test of a student’s…