Category: archives

  • Kreps kids win mock trial competition

    Students in Kreps’ after-school program took home the top prize in the state last month. By: Chris Karmiol    The case of the State of New Jersey vs. Betty Black may not have made headlines, but it did make winners out of a group of sixth-graders at the Melvin H. Kreps Middle School.    The case, a…

  • Donald J. Garfinkel, 82

       Donald J. Garfinkel, 82, of Monroe died Monday, June 10, at home.    Born in Manhattan, he lived in West Orange before moving to Monroe in 1989.    Mr. Garfinkel was a manufacturers’ representative for St. Thomas Leather Goods, Mele Manufacturing and Baltimore Luggage. Previously, he was a foreman with Allied Luggage in Jersey City until 1960.…

  • Week of June 14, 2002

    From Hamilton, Hillsborough, Hopewell, Pennington and Princeton HAMILTON    Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors recently honored Hamilton office sales associate Darlene Mayernik with a Chairman’s Circle Award for her excellent sales performance for 2001.    Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, the nation’s eighth largest broker, is an independently owned and operated member of the Prudential Real Estate…

  • AROUND CRANBURY

    A fishy event at Brainerd By: Lorraine Sedor    Jane Huff offers this bit of hope to all her fellow duffers: It is possible to get a hole-in-one!    Last month Jane was a guest at the Hopewell Country Club, where she used an 8-iron on the ninth hole, a short par 3. She explained that she…

  • Hopes high for linking Orchard Road, Rt. 518

    Wetlands analysis of the area through which the road would pass indicates the project is feasible. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Plans to build a connection between Orchard Road and Route 518 are proceeding apace, members of the township Traffic Circulation Committee informed the Planning Board on Monday night.    Township Engineer Don Johnson said the…

  • Koroma named HHS Male Athlete of the Year

    Alpha Koroma, who finished second in the CVC in rushing during the 2001 football season, was honored last week. By: Neil Hay    Alpha Koroma.    A name that sounds like a star.    You know, he just might be one.    Alpha Koroma. The 2002 Hightstown High School Male Athlete of the Year.    Injured much of his junior…

  • Food for Thought

    New Brunswick soup kitchen Elijah’s Promise will celebrate its efforts with Chef’s Night, a benefit that brings together some of the area’s top cooks June 17. By: Jim Boyle    The folks at Elijah’s Promise in New Brunswick have gone a step further than your average soup kitchen. In 1997, they took the adage about teaching…

  • Borough eyeing sign ordinance

    The proposed law would put restriction on the size and number of signs a business could display in its windows in Hightstown. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — The Planning Board voted Monday to approve new measures that would define how borough businesses display signs.    About two years ago the borough began the process of identifying…

  • School board OKs ‘out-to-lunch’ policy

    One-year pilot program will allow qualified WW-P high school seniors to eat lunch off school grounds. By: Gwen Runkle    As the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education approved a one-year pilot program Tuesday to allow high school seniors to eat lunch off school grounds, students and administrators alike exchanged high-fives and broad smiles in quiet…