Category: archives

  • Tie may offer second chance for nonvoters

    PACKET EDITORIAL, April 19 By: Packet Editorial    Somewhere in Princeton Borough today, there are at least a few individuals — the homeowner who pays property taxes, the parent who’s sending his or her children to the public schools, the lifelong resident who went through the Princeton Regional school system — who have got to be…

  • BPA asks residents to show their flags

    By: Casha Caponegro    Main Street residents and businesses are encouraged to show their patriotism for the dedication of the Todd Beamer Post Office.    Residents and members of the Cranbury Business Association said they want see patriotic displays of red, white and blue along Main Street to welcome the many government officials and dignitaries who will…

  • MHS golfers have high hopes

    By: Redd E. Patrick    A year ago at this time, the Monroe High School golf team was struggling to win a match.    These days, there’s talk of a division championship, state tournament play and perhaps 15 victories or even more.    Last year, the Falcons had a standout player in Steve Allen and two capable players…

  • Rallying in support of Israel

    By: Brian Shappell    Monroe did not go unrepresented Monday when hundreds of thousands flocked to the nation’s capital for the country’s largest pro-Israel rally to date.    Despite their exhaustion, many came back with feelings of exhilaration.    Marlene Heller of South Brunswick, Robert Sherman of Monroe, Evelyn Hirsch of Monroe and Karen Kramer, a former South…

  • Tales of murder and pleas for life

    Anti-death penalty campaign comes to Princeton University. By: Jeff Milgram    On Sept. 27, 1985, a gunman shot and killed Charlene White inside the southeast Alabama building supply company managed by her husband, George, who was convicted of her murder, but later freed.    On Dec. 22, 1986, James Bernard Campbell, 20, stabbed to death the Rev.…

  • Borough gets the green light to move on intersection land

    By: Al Wicklund    JAMESBURG — The borough soon will be ready to acquire the land needed to construct a traffic light on Forsgate Drive and curbs and sidewalks on Pergola Avenue, the borough attorney said.    The necessary ordinance for land acquisition for the traffic signal at the intersection involving Gatzmer Avenue, Willow Street and Perrineville…

  • Newcomers gain election to school board

    Suzann Fallon, Susan Lloyd and Alice Weisman were voted onto the Board of Education Tuesday by residents of the East Windsor Regional School District. By: Chris Karmiol    The East Windsor Regional Board of Education got a new crop of members this week as voters placed Suzann Fallon and Susan Lloyd in the two available Hightstown…

  • WW-P budget squeaks by on strength of Plainsboro vote

    Geevers, Smith and Bocarsly are elected to the board. By: Gwen Runkle    Once again, voters from Plainsboro Township have saved the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District’s budget from defeat by West Windsor voters — an apparent trend district officials are not taking lightly.    "I am glad the budget was approved, but if it wasn’t offset…

  • Frank Arch Jr.

    Frank Arch Jr., 86, formerly of Hopewell Township, died Wednesday at Warren Haven Nursing Home, Oxford. Born in Morrisville, Pa., he moved to Trenton at an early age and remained close to his Chambersburg roots and the Hungarian Reformed Church. During the Depression, he apprenticed as a butcher with Mezzarro’s Brothers Meat Market in Trenton…