Category: archives

  • Plumsted student is top dog

    6-year-old is a regional winner in Reading Rainbow contest. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — … and it was the best Christmas ever.    No, really.    OK, let’s back it up a little. It was Christmastime, 2001, when 6-year-old Elena Brown and her mother, Marie, discovered a wayward collie in the woods near their Sanders Lane house.…

  • Civil rights bills calls for new protections

    Civil rights to include pregnancy and breast feeding    Assemblywomen Loretta Weinberg and Joan Quigley have introduced legislation expanding civil rights protections to include pregnancy and breast-feeding.    Under the Weinberg/Quigley measure (A2401), an employer would violate a woman’s civil rights if she was fired or otherwise discriminated against on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related…

  • State plans probe of workplace violence

    A seven-member panel will examine why some companies are proned to violence in the workplace    The Assembly gave final house passage to legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Joseph V. Doria Jr. and Assemblywoman Arline M. Friscia that would establish a state Task Force on Workplace Violence.    The measure (S658 / A1915) would authorize a seven-member panel…

  • Millstone falls into losers’ bracket

    Tough call, stranded runners prove to be the difference in District 12 play. By: Kyle Moylan    HAMILTON-Not only could have Millstone’s 3-0 loss to Lawrence gone the other way, it probably should have.    Playing in the winner’s bracket semifinals of the District 12 Little League Tournament at the neutral HTRBA site, Millstone had several good…

  • Blaze destroys room in Holt residence

    Rep. Holt’s wife, Dr. Margaret Lancefield, and three of his grandchildren were sleeping at home when the fire started By: John Tredrea    An electric fire that may have been caused by a malfunctioning fan broke out in a bedroom of U.S. Congressman Rush Holt’s Hopewell Township home early Tuesday morning, Rep. Holt’s press secretary, Jim…

  • Undermanned PAL track team state runner-up

    A hearty band of 13 athletes prove quality is better than quantity By:    Competing in which several teams had them outnumbered by a 7-1 ratio, the South Brunswick PAL Track & Field program stood tall and took second place in the New Jersey Track & Field Championships at Bresset Stadium in Long Branch.    South Brunswick…

  • Board seeks new bidsfor referendum work

    First round of offers $150,000 over budget By:Krzysztof Scibiorski    The school board expects to find out Monday whether the second round of bidding on Manville school improvement projects are more in line with the district’s original $1.48 million cost estimate.    The lowest bid submitted to the board in the original process was more than $150,000…

  • Stanislaw Panasewicz

       HILLSBOROUGH — Stanislaw Panasewicz died Thursday, July 4, in Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 91.    Born in Poland, he came to the United States in 1950 and had resided in Dunellen, Plainfield and Bridgewater before moving to Hillsborough in 1991.    Mr. Panasewicz retired in 1976 from Johnson & Johnson in Raritan where he…

  • Excuse Busters

    Author Charles Stuart Platkin talks about getting out of behavioral ruts. By: Daniel Shearer Author Charles Stuart Platkin will visit several Barnes & Noble stores in the area next week.    There is no shortage of self-help books. Several years after tackling a weight problem, unloading a few troublesome relationships and launching a career as a…