Category: archives

  • McKnight School to be demolished

    East Windsor’s Ethel McKnight School is scheduled to be rebuilt, but plans are behind schedule. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — Of all the construction projects at the East Windsor Regional School District’s six schools, the plans for the Ethel McKnight School are at once the most extensive and the simplest — tear it down…

  • Aug. 22, 9 a.m.: Five for Friday

    An albums list lacking in solid albums. By: Hank Kalet    Friday’s five is a little different than the last one I offered.    This week I look at the Billboard Top 50 albums list in despair. Of the top 20 albums, only Coldplay’s "A Rush of Blood to the Head" is on my to buy list,…

  • Survey ranks university No. 2 in key categories

    Princeton Review sees school as second in academic program and hardest in getting into. By: Jeff Milgram    According to a survey of 106,000 students at 351 top colleges, Princeton University has the second-best academic program in North America and is the second-hardest school to get into.    Only Yale was ranked higher in providing students with…

  • Leading sociologist accepts Princeton post

       The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has lured Douglas S. Massey, a leading sociologist and urban policy and immigration expert, away from the University of Pennsylvania.    Professor Massey will join the Princeton faculty in September. He will have a dual appointment at the Woodrow Wilson School and Princeton’s sociology department.    Professor Massey…

  • LIFESTYLE: Animal Encounters

    Pet shop owners brings his love of all creatures – even creepy and crawly – to children. By: Brook Olster    The audience gasped as a 35-pound boa constrictor snake slithered around the neck of a child on Friday.    A hedgehog, 4-foot iguana, rabbit and guinea pig were also part of an animal demonstration offered twice…

  • Kayaking teens save man’s life

    Hightstown High School graduates rescue local man while on their annual kayaking trip on the Delaware River. By: David Pescatore    It is a tradition for five friends from Hightstown High School — the annual summer kickoff kayaking trip on the Delaware River. They have been going since the eighth grade, when they were all in…

  • Twin Rivers missionary returns from South Africa

    Recent Hightstown High School graduate Lena Wong returns from ninth mission trip. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — Lena Wong did not attend her Hightstown High School graduation ceremony in June; she had something more important to do.    Lena, 17, left a week earlier to embark on a two-month mission to South Africa.    "It was…

  • Interlocal police deal comes to abrupt halt

    Rocky Hill baffled by state’s decision. By: Paul Sisolak    ROCKY HILL — A new interlocal police partnership between the borough and South Bound Brook has hit a speed bump.    The plan, intended to put South Bound Brook police on patrol in Rocky Hill on a part-time basis, was abruptly halted July 25 — only a…

  • PU study tracks emotion’s role in subverting logic

    Emotional impulse and rational thinking clash in different parts of the brain.    Anyone who follows the financial markets can see that people do not always make economic decision rationally.    But Princeton University researchers think they’ve found out why: People’s choices can depend in part on what region of their brain emerges victorious from a battle…