Category: archives

  • Lawrence returns to times of Maidenhead

    Township Council re-enacts 1816 town meeting. By: Lea Kahn    Pam Mount spent the first several minutes of her second term as mayor looking ahead to 2005. Then she asked the audience at the annual reorganization meeting Saturday to look back — way back.    Mayor Mount asked the standing-room-only crowd to go back 189 years to…

  • Mercer chamber to hold seminar on retirement

       The Mercer County Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Mercer County Community College, will offer a seminar, "Retirement: Are You Ready For It?," on Thursday, Jan. 20, at the college’s Conference Center on the West Windsor campus.    Part of the Mercer Business Forum seminar series, the event begins at 7:45 a.m. with registration and continental…

  • OBITUARIES: Leslie Jakab

       Leslie Jakab, 87, died Sunday, Dec. 26, at the Reformed Church Home in Old Bridge.    Born in Belgrade, Mr. Jakab lived in Yugoslavia and in Hungary he was 39. He graduated with a degree in pharmacy from the University of Budapest in 1943. He served in the Hungarian Army during World War II. He was…

  • Perfect fit

    Young couple find themselves at home running Bordentown funeral home. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — Doubt hits and with it comes questions piled as thick as the layers of flooring beneath your feet. Is it worth it? Was this idea just nuts?    Then there’s the history lining you up for a sucker punch. Screw…

  • Roebling calendar helps turn the page to 100

    In the village’s centennial year, the 2005 community calendar features photos of Roebling throughout the century. By: Scott Morgan    ROEBLING — For once — and just this once — it was a gimmie. Nobody would have to jockey for space, nobody would have to wait for next year and nobody would need to keep track…

  • Lawrence boys turn corner

    Lawrence boys basketball By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School boys basketball team’s tough out-of-conference schedule appears to be paying off.    The Cardinals, fresh off a strong appearance in Hopewell’s John Molinelli Holiday Classic, evened their record at 3-3 Tuesday night with a 57-34 road win over West Windsor-Plainsboro North. Junior center Brett Brackett set…

  • Manville baby is county’s first in 2005

    Melanie Murillo born at 3:30 a.m. Jan. 1. By: Emily Craighead    Melissa Nunez was allotted 12 wishes according to the Latin American tradition of eating a grape for each stroke of the clock at midnight on New Year’s Eve.    But the 23-year-old expectant mother remembers making only one wish that night — for her first…

  • Clancy fishing for big-time success

    By: Ken Weingartner    As a returning Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament wrestling champion, one might expect Matt Clancy to have a bull’s-eye on his back this season.    Instead, Clancy says he is carrying a label. It reads: "Fluke."    But after the first few weeks of this season, the South Brunswick High senior is in the process…

  • HHS boys salvage split in holiday tourney

    Team enters New Year with 4-2 mark By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team salvaged a split in the Hopewell Valley Tournament to enter the New Year with a 4-2 record. Although the Raiders are in much better shape than last year at this time, second-year head coach Ian Progin hasn’t been…