Category: archives

  • Congressional races attract challengers

    The lineup begins for those seeking to oppose incumbents. By: Jennifer Potash    The general election is still more than nine months off, but the campaigns for the 12th and 7th Congressional Districts are starting to take shape.    Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) of Hopewell Township is not expected to face a primary opponent. The district includes…

  • Hightstown would save with regional police

    EDITORIAL    On Monday the Hightstown Borough Council likely will pass an ordinance creating the position of lieutenant in the Police Department. On the surface this is not significant. It merely creates a line for the position on paper, and does not hire anyone. But it represents much more.    The move almost certainly means that the…

  • Padless Stephens has plenty of punch

    Princeton center has career high in final prep for Ivies By: Justin Feil    The black elbow pads that Mike Stephens donned for the first 12 Princeton University men’s basketball games seemed better suited for Sundays in the NFL. Sometimes they looked the part.    Witness the photo of Minnesota’s Jeff Hagen eating elbow pad served Stephens…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    McKinley rebounds from injury with career best By: Justin Feil    Last year, Tom McKinley dislocated his shoulder while playing football for Princeton High. It cost him the first week of preseason for swimming, but otherwise had little effect on his winter season.    The Little Tiger junior wasn’t so sure he’d be able to say the…

  • Towns get aid to support the arts

    Jamesburg and Monroe receive $10,175 total from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Committee. By: Al Wicklund    The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission awarded arts grants totaling $10,175 to support the activities of groups in Jamesburg and Monroe.    The commission announced Jan. 21 that the Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission will receive $5,000. In…

  • Fish Tales: Logue legacy unmatched

    By: Rich Fisher    You can talk about Kevin Bacon and his six degrees of separation, but when it came to Joe Logue and Mercer County scholastic sports, it was one degree of separation.    The athlete, and Joe Logue.    You would be hard pressed to find a boys’ soccer, basketball or baseball player from Mercer in…

  • Jan. 30, 4:50 p.m.: Fire the voters

    A scathing bit of humor from the Boston Globe. By: Hank Kalet    A funny piece from earlier this week that I’d missed, but that my friend Bill alerted me to. Definitely worth a read — really skewers the news media and election industry. Check it out.

  • Guided by Voices

    Cynthia Adler’s one-woman show is part of Passage Theatre Company’s fourth annual Solo Flights Festival in Trenton Feb. 5 to 29. By: Matt Smith CYNTHIA ADLER    Cynthia Adler is a little reluctant to give up the goods on her one-woman show, Downloaded — and in denial, part of Passage Theatre Company’s fourth annual Solo Flights…

  • Mining at Stavola is on the decline

    Monroe Township’s lastoperating oopen pit sand and gravel mine could be done by the end of the year. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Once with as many as eight operating open-pit sand and gravel mines, Monroe Township is now down to one, really half of one, according to Township Engineer Ernie Feist.    The mines were…