Category: archives

  • Curb Appeal

    Mailboxes are as individual as the garden in which they exist By: DAWN NIKITHSER Custom mailboxes can come in a variety of forms. Some people like whimsical wooden creations, mailboxes shaped and painted like animals such as cows, cats or dogs, while others desire stately creations in wrought-iron or solid brass. SUMMER HOME & GARDEN…

  • Residents complain about Ward Street traffic

    Ward Street residents presented a plan to the Borough Council that would close the road’s bridge to all but pedestrian traffic. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Traffic has long been a problem for many borough residents. Monday, some of them offered an option around it.    An entourage of East Ward Street residents presented a plan…

  • Setting the pace at the speedway

    At the New Egypt Speedway, it’s survival of the fastest. By: Scott Morgan    Number One staggers on the turn. A flash, and stable ground becomes a jagged slide. The slender hold on traction might survive, but in the turns, it’s not the leader’s call. The turns belong to velocity.    Out here, the leader is prey,…

  • Anthony T. Schwing

       BORDENTOWN CITY — Anthony T. Schwing, 70, died Sunday at home.    Born in Lawrenceville, he lived there 22 years and in Trenton for 30 years before moving to Bordentown eight years ago.    Mr. Schwing retired in 1995 after 35 years as owner of Schwing Excavating.    He was an Army corporal with the military police during…

  • Peddie nets third place in state action

    BOYS TENNIS: John Scott’s loss to Lawrenceville’s Ross Rosenstein was the deciding factor in the state Prep A team championship race. By: Neil Hay    The state Prep A Tennis Championship was there to be had    All the Peddie netters needed was to win at first singles to pull it off. And with senior John Scott…

  • Florence S. Kuderka

       HIGHTSTOWN — Florence S. Kuderka, 68, died Friday at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township.    Born in Hightstown, she was a lifelong area resident.    Mrs. Kuderka had been a bus driver for the Manalapan/Englishtown Regional School District and more recently was a part-time secretary for the East Windsor Regional School District.    She was a member of…

  • Blood donations always needed

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    I would like to thank the Hightstown VFW for letting our club use their hall for our blood drive. They have made the hall available to us over the last couple years for this important project. Please remember that donating blood saves lives and if you can donate…

  • George Joseph Zelasko III

       George Joseph Zelasko III died Monday, May 20 in Orlando, Fla.    He was born in Princeton, and was a life-long Jamesburg resident. He was to graduate this July with honors from the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in Orlando, Fla.    He was a 2001 graduate of Monroe Township High School. He was an avid off-road motorcyclist, and…

  • Family learning the value of a home

    The Schemelia family of East Windsor will travel to Tijuana this summer with other members of their church to build houses for the poor there. By: Chris Karmiol    Around here are new, luxury single-family homes starting at $300,000. Around here are developments with names that include "Pointe," "Manor" and "Estates" which dominate the residential landscape.…