Category: archives

  • A Glass Act

    New Jersey’s glass history and the art that followed can be seen at the Museum of American Glass in Wheaton Village. By: Susan Van Dongen There is so much to see and do in Wheaton Village, where in 1888, Dr. Theodore Corson Wheaton, a pharmacist, began making his own medicine bottles in a small glass…

  • Pennington to flush hydrants

    Dates are Aug. 17 and 18 and Aug. 24 and 25, if necessary.    On Aug. 17 and 18 and again on Aug. 24 and 25, if necessary, the Pennington Water Department will conduct its fire hydrant flushing program.    "This is a preventative maintenance process in order to remove sediment build-up in the water mains, thereby,…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:     Police recovered a green Nissan reported stolen from Manville on March 29.    The Norcross Police Department in Georgia identified the car after a routine motor vehicle stop and contacted Manville police July 27. * * *     Several children riding bicycles and swimming in flooded areas of Dukes Park near 100 Dukes Parkway…

  • A title-winning coach moves on

    Suozzo takes administrative job; Gola to coach soccer By: Jim Green    The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys soccer team turned the page in its illustrious history Monday, when school athletic director Kiki Enderle announced the hiring of Ed Gola as the program’s new head coach.    Gola, who has been coaching soccer in the school…

  • The ‘indispensable’ founding father

    BOOK NOTES by Dr. Joan Ruddiman    A look at current best selling biographies reveals that our founding fathers are very much in vogue. Readers can enter into the 18th century political battles by reading the acclaimed biography "John Adams" by David McCollough and an analysis of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis in "An American Sphinx:…

  • Drivers need more flood warnings

    To the editor By:    I can’t believe it! Someone finally had some common sense to place a "Road Closed" sign at River Road and Wagner Lane last Wednesday to indicate that the road ahead was flooded and impassible.    Unfortunately, the barricade showed up a little too late to take care of the morning rush and…

  • Residents demand workmanship laws

    Residents of Homestead development ask Mansfield Township Committee members to establish new standards for how builders construct concrete driveways. By: William Wichert    MANSFIELD — Faced with cracking driveways, some residents from the Homestead development are calling on township officials to enact an ordinance that protects them against what they view as poor workmanship.    Sitting before…

  • Great summer run ends for Bordentown 12’s

    By: Sean Moylan    When its Little League season officially ended with a 10-3 loss to the West Windsor B team this past Saturday, the members of the Bordentown 12-year-old All-Star baseball team had no reason to hang their heads.    In fact, each player on Bordentown was given a special baseball in a holder designed to…

  • Do you remember rock ‘n’ roll radio?

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK by Vanessa S. Holt    In last week’s Random Notes column, Scott Morgan reflected on some of the music that has impressed him over the years. I almost resisted my record-collecting nerdy impulse to start making a list of my own, but I realized I had something to add to that line of thinking.…