Category: archives

  • Gaskill fits in well with Cougars

    MHS tennis reaches CJ II final By: Justin Feil    From afar last season, Lindsay Gaskill saw the Montgomery High girls’ tennis team wrap up its first Central Jersey Group II title in school history.    This year, the freshman had the chance to be a part of the top-seeded Cougars’ repeat attempt. After shutting out Hopewell…

  • New environmental study raises hopes for NPDC purchase

    Montgomery Township and state officials inching closer to an agreement. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Township and state officials are inching closer to an agreement on the fate of the North Princeton Developmental Center, according to Mayor Louise Wilson, but uncertainties over the extent of environmental damage to the site continue to cause a drag…

  • Ex-weapons inspector rips Bush Iraq policy

    Scott Ritter tells university audience Iraq has virtually no weapons of mass destruction. By: Jeff Milgram    Iraq has virtually no chemical and biological weapons, no nuclear arms, and cannot build them soon, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said Wednesday at Princeton University.    And if the United States merely wanted to disarm Saddam Hussein,…

  • BACK PORCH: Cruising to another world helps leave troubles behind

    By: Melissa Morgan    I lounged by the pool with the breeze off the Caribbean water in my hair. I sipped on a fruity drink with a nice big chuck of pineapple on the rim of the frosty glass and listened to the beats of a Calypso band. Oh, how I long for two short weeks…

  • Councilman backs Laudenberger, Woomer

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    In Hightstown this Nov. 5 we will be voting for two council seats. While I have been on council for this past year I have tried to look at all sides of an issue, and to make decisions based on facts and the impact on our families. This…

  • Treatment can help those suffering with excessive perspiration

    HEALTH MATTER By: Dr. John E. Vine    For those who suffer from excessive perspiration, every day is a social, functional and emotional challenge.    Hyperhidrosis is an often inherited condition that occurs when parts of the body produce more perspiration than is needed to cool off the body and maintain appropriate body temperature.    There are various…

  • Demos Constantine Bakoulis

       PRINCETON TOWNSHIP — Demos Constantine Bakoulis, 69, died Oct. 2 at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Born in New York City, he was raised in Hightstown and graduated from The Peddie School. He served in the Army two years before receiving a bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University in 1954.…

  • Robert ‘Bob’ Perrine

       CRANBURY — J. Robert "Bob" Perrine, 81, died Wednesday at The Medical Center at Princeton.    Mr. Perrine was born in Cranbury, where he was a farmer all of his life. He graduated from Cranbury Elementary School and Middlesex County Vocational School.    An Army Air Forces veteran, he served as a mechanic in Dayton, Ohio, during…

  • Photo history display to be dedicated

    26 photos and two maps will be displayed at Monroe Senior Center By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — The township Senior Center will have a dedication ceremony Monday for the display — a photographic history of the township — recently put up in the center’s conference room.    The ceremony will celebrate the collaborative efforts of the…