Category: archives

  • March 11, 3:35 p.m.: In our name

    Torture by proxy is still torture and still immoral. By: Hank Kalet    Call it tortured logic. Or a moral quagmire. The fact is, the powers that be in the United States are undercutting our moral legitimacy by allowing torture by proxy — shipping suspects off to countries that we know use torture, averting our gaze…

  • Making sense of their four-legged friends

    Barclay Brook kindergartners get a lesson in sense and sensibility with a little help from the Philadelphia Zoo. By: Elaine Worden    MONROE — Philadelphia Zoo outreach educator Jim Avitalle stood in front of Lisa McHugh’s kindergarten class, holding a ferret named Monte.    Monte had just roused from his midday nap, and was a little groggy.…

  • Greystone still eyed to develop Bank Street

    Greystone Mill LLC of Paoli, Pa. was named as the conditional redeveloper of the Bank Street rug mill area in Hightstown. By: Michael Ross    HIGHTSTOWN — A Pennsylvania developer was named Monday as the conditional redeveloper of the Bank Street rug mill area, a project that will include a mix of residential housing, retail and…

  • OBITUARIES: Arthur Helms

    Arthur Helms    Arthur "Art" Helms, 56, died Friday, March 4, in his home town of Alexandria, Va.    His father, Arthur M. Helms, is deceased. He is survived by his mother, Ruth S. Tindall of Monroe; his loving wife, Jean Helms of Alexandria; three children, Sam Helms and daughter-in-law, Sarah Helms, of Colorado, Will Helms of…

  • Mandates may force 15 percent tax hike

    Committee approves $23.7 million budget introduction to seek extraordinary aid By:Roger Alvarado    The municipal tax rate would jump 15 percent unless the Township Committee can convince state officials to cough up an additional $1.9 million they say the state owes. Finance forum set for March 29    Township Committee members are hoping local residents will give…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Yoel Cancio, 33, of Miami was charged with disorderly conduct and lewdness March 3 at 2 a.m. after he urinated in the Mi Casita parking lot, police said.    Mr. Cancio was issued a summons and released. ***    Cynthia S. Dowdall, 44, of Dryden was charged with driving while intoxicated March 5 at 1:52 a.m.…

  • Tastefully written

    Ice cream flavors created in writing assignment By:Emily Craighead    Even Santa Claus can’t grant every child’s wish.    Sometimes it takes a clearly articulated, creative marketing strategy to make that wish come true.    After reading 22 letters from Auten Road Intermediate School (ARIS) students suggesting new ice cream flavors, MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream and Treatery owner Devang…

  • Two charged in fight

    An argument between two men leads to their arrest. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — An argument Monday night at the Parkside Tavern on Lincoln Avenue led to a fight and the arrest of two men, police said.    Police Chief David Lester said Tuesday that Jabrel Warren, 31, of Jamesburg and Cliff Burry, 31 of Monroe…

  • Montgomery school budget OK’d with $1,000 average tax hike

    Second question to address controversial one-to-one laptop computer plan for new high school. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — The past three months of Board of Education meetings have been brimming with debate and discussion — mostly regarding the financial impact of purchasing 1,750 laptops for students and teachers at the new high school and the…