Category: archives

  • It’s all about the team for MHS stars

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Juniors Liz Segarra and Scott Roman are both determined to improve on their individual performances of a year ago for the Monroe High School girls and boys cross country teams, but they both seem to be more interested in team goals than personal – the way it should be.    As a…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Sept. 10 issue. Kerry, not Bush, focused on Vietnam service record To the editor:     Matt Gutkin of East Windsor in last week’s letter to the editor ("Bush attacking Kerry to deflect attention from own record") has it wrong regarding the issue of John Kerry’s military record.    It is not the Bush campaign…

  • Proposal targets new school cap rules

       A state law that lowers the spending cap on school budgets and restricts the amount of money a district can keep as surplus could be overturned. By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    A state law that lowers the spending cap on school budgets and restricts the amount of money a district can keep as surplus could be…

  • New arrivals at Palmer Square.

    Palmer Square plans to welcome a few new retail stores as well as make more space for an existing tenant this fall. By: Jennifer Potash    Honey West, a women’s clothing boutique run by sisters Annie and Marisa Perini, will open in the fall.    Annie Perini recently worked as a designer for the national boutique Anthropologie…

  • LETTER: Kerry is wrong for America

    To the editor:     John Kerry makes his four months of wartime duty in Vietnam the basis of his presidential campaign. He enlisted in the Navy in 1966 and was discharged from the Navy in 1978 (he usually says 1969). It is shocking that while he was actively protesting the Vietnam War he was still…

  • Where’s the Beef?

    ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ takes its audience on an eye-opening tour of factory farming. By: Susan Van Dongen Harold Brown, a former beef farmer, had life-changing experience at sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Peaceable Kingdom. The film screens at the New Jersey Film Festival Sept. 30.    How about nuts, berries and tree bark for dinner?    That’s…

  • Statisticians declare Chávez election legit.

    Computer science researchers from Princeton University and Johns Hopkins are giving the Aug. 15 referendum in Venezuela to recall President Hugo Chávez a clean bill of health.    Groups opposed to President Chávez charged that statistical anomalies in polling data indicated that election results were fraudulent. However, an independent analysis of the same data by Edward…

  • Union, board closer to agreement.

    After working for more than a year without a contract, the West Windsor-Plainsboro Service Association is a step closer to a contract agreement with the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education. By: Shanay Cadette    The board announced Tuesday that a tentative agreement has been reached.    Agreement details will not be released until the contract is…

  • Web site sells college-admission help.

    The idea for the business was born in a freshman seminar on technology and society, where Mr. Moore and Mr. Ludwig met. By: Jeff Milgram    When Robert J. Moore was a student at Glassboro High School in South Jersey, he knew exactly which college he wanted to attend.    He studied hard and got a very…