Category: archives

  • Peace vigils moved to lunch hour

    Women in Black holds weekly silent vigils on Nassau Street to draw attention to human-rights abuses and to oppose war. By: Jennifer Potash    Women in Black, a group of local women who hold weekly silent vigils on Nassau Street to draw attention to human-rights abuses and to oppose war, will now meet during the lunch…

  • MHS boys starting faster

    Cougar soccer squad readies for No. 1 seed Neptune By: Justin Feil    Most of the Montgomery High boys’ soccer team’s difficulties have come when the Cougars haven’t been sharp from the outset.    With each successive state tournament game, however, it seems to be less of a problem. After falling behind, 2-0, before scoring six straight…

  • Dow Jones workers feel sting of layoffs

    Last week, the company announced it would lay off 230 employees. By: David Campbell    Fifty-seven union workers at Dow Jones’ South Brunswick facility off Route 1 had been fired as of Friday in the latest round of layoffs by the company.    The publisher of The Wall Street Journal and other media properties had laid off…

  • Whitney trip opens students up to wonders of art

    Students in the PHS Leadership Among Minority People program travel to Museum of American Art in Manhattan. By: Jeff Milgram    All Martin L. Parker of the Rotary Club of Princeton wanted was to get one Princeton High School student interested in art.    "If you get one kid turned on, say, ‘Wow,’" Mr. Parker said Friday…

  • Monday, Nov. 11, 2002

    Ethel Lutes McKeen    Ethel Lutes McKeen, 89, died Nov. 7 at Care One at Evesham, Marlton.    Born in Titusville, she lived in Hamilton and Ewing before recently moving to Medford.    She graduated from Trenton State College and retired after 15 years as a metallugical technician with DeLaval Turbine Corp.    Daughter of the late Aubray and…

  • Nanci McInerney

       LAWRENCE – Nanci K. McInerney, 43, died Friday at home.    Born in Montclair, she lived in Lawrenceville eight years.    She was an advocate for abused children in Mercer County and served on the Governor’s Task Force for Abused Children. She was a member of Parents Anonymous of New Jersey and was awarded the 2001 Outstanding…

  • Ruth Smith

       MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP – Ruth K. Smith, 75, died Thursday at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township.    Born in Cream Ridge, she was a lifelong Upper Freehold and Millstone resident.    She worked for the Cream Ridge Post Office more than 30 years.    She was past matron of Order of the Eastern Star Sphinx Chapter 130, New Egypt,…

  • Dorothy Storepin

       WRIGHTSTOWN – Dorothy McNinch Storepin, 84, died Friday at Mount Laurel Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Mount Laurel.    Born in Jamestown, N.Y., she was a Lawrenceville resident and lived in Wrightstown 37 years before moving to Mount Laurel eight years ago.    She retired from General Motors Corp., Ewing, as a machine operator.    She was a member…

  • Buying Spree

    Eugene Atget, Harry Callahan, Eliot Porter — the Lawrenceville School is starting its photo collection with the biggest names in the field. By: Susan Van Dongen Part of the Lawrenceville School’s new teaching collection is on view in the Hutchins Gallery on the school’s campus. Above, "Head #13" by Philip-Lorca Di Corcia. At left, "Detail…