Category: archives

  • Letter: Safety first for graduation

    To the editor:     As the summer approaches and school comes to a close, high school and college students look forward to graduation. This year, I urge both graduates and their parents to take a serious look at graduation parties.    Every year we all hear of the tragedies surrounding drug and alcohol abuse at graduation…

  • Borough supports state tax reform

    Hightstown passed a resolution supporting a state constitutional convention on property taxes. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — The fight to reform property taxes has garnered a set of allies in the Borough Council.    At the May 5 meeting, the council unanimously backed a resolution supporting a property tax reform convention that would alter the state…

  • As losses mount, Jimenez still has fun playing baseball

    By: Ken Weingartner    If Jarrod Jimenez is any barometer, losing hasn’t taken a severe toll upon the Monroe High baseball team.    A freshman, Jimenez is among a young group of players around which MHS’ future will be built. Jimenez has batted around .300 most of the season, which has seen the Falcons go 1-17-1 through…

  • Forkin, Brown place 2nd at Mercer track meet

    The Rams finished sixth at the county track and field championships. By: Neil Hay    With the likes of Trenton and Ewing running away from the field, the most the Hightstown High School boys’ track team could hope for at Saturday’s Mercer County track and field championships was a respectable finish in the top half of…

  • Struggling but surviving

    Tigers’ spirits remain intact during tough softball season By: Rich Fisher    When teams are losing, it can be pure agony sometimes.    Tempers could flair, feelings could be hurt. And then of course, there is just the misery of not winning.    The Princeton High softball team is experiencing the losses this year, as a 14-0 setback…

  • State funding stalls MOM line

    Commissioner finds no money for proposed rail line. By: Al Wicklund    The state transportation commissioner said this week there’s no state money available to build the proposed and much-debated Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex commuter rail line.    DOT Commissioner Jack Lettiere said the state budget crunch and other demands for transportation money will take the MOM line out of…

  • May 16, 3:59 p.m.: Tax scam

    Dishonesty and the Bush tax plan By: Hank Kalet    Sometimes I feel like I’m becoming repetitive, but with such dopey policy coming down the pike, I feel like I have no choice.    Take the tax bill that passed in the U.S. Senate today. As I’ve written before, several times, this is a bad tax bill…

  • Two vaccinated deer found dead in Princeton Township

    Expert says there is no threat to immunocontraceptive research program. By: David Campbell    Two of the 20 deer vaccinated under Princeton Township’s experimental immunocontraceptive program have died, Princeton Animal Control Officer Mark Johnson said this week.    One of the tagged and immunized does was hit by a car and killed May 9 in the area…

  • Mother’s Day gift of poetry

    Poet shares his talents with Forsgate residents. By: Al Wicklund MONROE — A staff member who doubles as a poet brightened Mother’s Day at The Residence at Forsgate assisted-living community Sunday.    Bob Jeannotte, director of environmental services at The Residence, enjoyed a double celebration.    He gave a reading of his poetry on May 9, just…