Category: archives

  • First-time entrants win Run With Aimee 5k

    MHS grad Harshman, elite marathoner Parton take men’s, women’s honors By: Justin Feil    Brian Harshman graduated from Montgomery High in 1981 and his parents still live in the area. But so much has changed that Harshman just had to check out the Run With Aimee 5k course before he ran it Sunday.    Harshman’s scouting paid…

  • Harvard workers bring campaign for living wage to PU

    Movement to improve pay of service staff described. By: Lindsay Dell    Edgar Barrios, a low-wage service worker at Harvard University, said Thursday night the Cambridge, Mass. institution has a lot to learn about justice.    Along with two members of Harvard’s student-based Living Wage Campaign, Mr. Barrios described what he said were Harvard’s unfair wages, meager…

  • Our lifestyle may founder in its own traffic

    PACKET EDITORIAL, April 9 By: Packet Editorial    Anybody who has driven on New Jersey’s roadways knows the "cost" — in terms of both time and temperament — of being stuck in traffic. Thanks to that tie-up at the Turnpike toll booth, or the overturned tractor-trailer on Route 1, or the rush-hour volume at bottlenecks like…

  • New contract appears near for WW-P teachers

    A sharp contrast to clash of union and board three years ago. By: Gwen Runkle    Three years ago, negotiations between the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education and the district’s teachers’ union — the West Windsor-Plainsboro Education Association — did not go smoothly.    Disagreements over teacher benefits led to state-mediated negotiations and even the threat…

  • Heller is latest in line of talented MHS pitchers

    Freshman makes sparkling debut for Cougar softball squad By: Justin Feil    The three-year evolution of the Montgomery High softball pitchers is in reverse.    Two seasons ago, powerful Katie Brennan blew away opponents with a rocket left arm. Last season, tall and lean Danielle Wyckoff used an effective mix of pitches to help the Cougars defy…

  • John Nascenti

       John J. Nascenti Sr., 77, died Sunday, April 7, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Brooklyn, he lived in Bergen County for 50 years, moving to Greenbriar at Whittingham in 1992.    He was the owner of a family trucking company, Store Door Delivery Co. in Jersey City, for over 30…

  • Crashing the Party

    J. Seward Johnson Jr.’s larger-than-life rendition of his favorite Impressionist painting includes the sculptor and some friends. By: Susan Van Dongen    In Pierre Auguste Renoir’s 1881 masterpiece, "The Luncheon of the Boating Party," the artist’s young fiancée, fellow artists and their favorite models, famous writers and actresses eat, drink and cavort at an elegant riverside…

  • Raymond F. Lauricella Sr.

    Raymond F. Lauricella Sr. died Friday at Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a longtime Pennington area resident. After graduating in 1948 from Central High School in Hopewell Township, he tried out for the New York Yankees baseball team. Before his retirement in 1994, he was a maintenance supervisor for Princeton Theological…

  • Gloria Groendyke

       Gloria Suarez Groendyke, 73, of Fort Pierce, Fla., formerly of Monmouth Junction, died Saturday, April 6, at Indian River Memorial Hospital in Vero Beach, Fla.    Funeral arrangements will be announced by Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick.