Category: archives

  • Taking the Plunge

    Leslie Ayvazian’s new play, ‘High Dive,’ grew out of her experiences perched on the edge of a diving board, contemplating her past and approaching a new stage in life. By: Jillian Kalonick Playwright and actress Leslie Ayvazian recruits audience members to help her perform High Dive, part of Passage Theatre Company’s third-annual Solo Flights Festival.…

  • Ida M. Lockwood

       Ida M. Lockwood, 91, of Monroe, died Sunday, Jan. 26, at her home.    Born in Staten Island, she lived in Highland Park prior to moving to Cranbury 28 years ago. Ms. Lockwood was employed as a dietician for five years with Lever Brothers in Washington, D.C. After that, she taught cooking classes in Buffalo, N.Y.,…

  • Evolution VII: The car everyone wanted but never got

    "It’s on rails; it’s on rails," my grinning co-pilot exclaims, for at least the fourth time. Despite years of writing experience (currently AutoWeek’s news editor), his lexicon has failed him and those three words are the only ones his continuing driving excitement allows him to utter… By: Bob Hall and Mike DeFord I share his…

  • Book sale coming to Cranbury School

    Book sale is also a school fundraiser By: Matt Kirdahy    The students of Cranbury School will have a chance to buy books and help raise money for their school next week when the PTO hosts its annual Scholastic Book Sale.    The sale, sponsored by Scholastic, a global children’s publishing and media company, offers books for…

  • Gifted and Talented eye school paper

    JFK Middle School’s ECLIPSE program to launch newspaper By: Jamie Simpson JAMESBURG — Eager hands shot up as Cherri Lee, a teacher at the John F. Kennedy school, asked for volunteers for the first-ever school newspaper called ECLIPSE, Inc.    "OK, who’d like to be the sports editors?" Ms. Lee asked as she scanned the group…

  • Brown is red hot as Tigers top PDS

    By: Bob Nuse    Dave Kosa remembers the first time he saw Anthony Brown play basketball.    "I saw him this summer in the (Princeton) summer league and he scored 45 points in the championship game and his team won," said Kosa, the first-year head boys’ basketball coach at Princeton High. "So I knew that he could…

  • Jane Rigler

       Jane Elizabeth Rigler, 82, died Monday, Jan. 27, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Morristown, she was raised in Somerville and moved to Monroe in 1948. She retired in 1988 from Carter-Wallace in Cranbury after more than 30 years of service with them.    Her husband, Warren, and two sons, Samuel…

  • Letter to the editor

    For the Jan. 31 issue By: Mayor thanks those who helped To the editor:     On Friday, Jan. 24, four buildings in the Westerlea Arms Apartments in Hightstown experienced lack of heat since around 10 o’clock of the previous night. Thirty-two apartments had temperatures between 35 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. This condition was caused by…

  • Orchard Hill principal moving on

    Paulette Bearer will become a principal in a school district in Union County. By: David Campbell    MONTGOMERY — Orchard Hill Elementary School Principal Paulette Bearer submitted her resignation to the Board of Education this month to become a principal in a school district in Union County.    Ms. Bearer plans to leave Montgomery at the end…