Category: archives

  • Letter: Giving blood gives of yourself

    To the editor:     When was the last time you did something nice for someone you don’t even know?    I mean something important, substantial. Something that took you out of your regular routine and that you had to set scarce free time aside for. But something that you knew, deep down, was going to benefit…

  • Letter: A big thank you for book sale success

    To the editor:     Spring is coming. The grass is greening. The trees are budding. The flowers are blooming and the book sale was booming.    What a sight: Aisles so packed that we could not circumvent the room; a parking lot brimming over; lines of purchasers, arms laden in books. Wow. Was it Ceil’s signs?…

  • Accident ignites blaze

    None injured in gas station fire caused by an accident involving two tractor-trailers. By: Hank Kalet    Two tractor-trailers collided Friday morning sending one into a Route 1 gas station, setting the truck and station on fire.    The collision took place in the southbound lanes of Route 1, just south of Deans Lane, at 2:50 a.m.…

  • Property Transfers Archive

    Looking for an old Property Transfers list? If it appeared online before Dec. 7, 2000, check out this list of links.

  • Morton repeats as District 25 wrestling champ

    By: Kyle Moylan    Craig Morton was already the first New Egypt High School wrestler to win a District 25 Tournament championship.    Now, Morton has done it twice.    With a pair of decisions and a pin, Morton took care of all the competition to win the 112-pound weight class at the District 25 Tournament, held this…

  • Eight vying for board seats

    Voters to choose between three incumbents and five other candidates at April 20 school election. By: Joseph Harvie    The names are in and it is now up to the voters to choose who will occupy the three open Board of Education seats that are up for grabs April 20 in the South Brunswick school election.…

  • Ivey, Rhein have top 20 finishes at MOC

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The two South Brunswick High School athletes competing in this year’s NJSIAA Meet of Champions for Winter Track and Field held at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym on Sunday both finished in the top 20 in their respective events. Junior Amy Rhein placed 18th overall in the girls’ 3200 meter race with a…

  • District proposes no tax increase

    North Hanover Board of Education officials propose stabilization of school tax rate for this year’s budget. By: Eve Collins    NORTH HANOVER — North Hanover Board of Education officials have introduced a tentative budget that would keep the school tax rate stable this year.    With a total budget of $17,986,274, the tax rate will remain at…

  • Rita Franklin

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH – Rita (Shine) Franklin died Feb. 24 in McCarrick Care Center in Somerset. She was 87.    Born in New Brunswick, she lived there for 27 years before moving to Edison in 1948 then moving to Hillsborough in 1957.    Ms. Franklin was employed at Ethicon Inc. in the marketing department for over 20 years,…