Category: archives

  • New businesses finding a good home here

    Central New Jersey proves a good location for the ethnic market. By: Jon Steele    If the three keys to success in business are "location, location and location," then Central Jersey is a good location for businesses serving the ethnic market and it’s getting better all the time.    For example, the Hispanic portion of Mercer County’s…

  • East Windsor grocery finds a niche in community

    Imported Indian foods serve a growing population. By: Chris Karmiol    EAST WINDSOR — She was personal assistant to the mayor of Bombay. He was a vegetable seller in India. Now, both American citizens, Sonya and Suehir Ketkar are supplying imported Indian foods to the growing Indian population in and around East Windsor.    "It was actually…

  • Letters

    Approved revised south budget To the editor;    Although I know your newspaper was in attendance at the March 21 meeting of the South Hunterdon Regional School board, I would like to offer my observations and opinions of that meeting.    There was a cross-section of the community there to offer their stances on the referendum to…

  • Baking for a sweet Easter, East to West

    IN THE KITCHEN by Pat Tanner:  Recipes for sweets to break the Lenten fast with ingredients symbolic of rebirth — the theme of Easter and of spring, including eggs, yeast and the very things banned during Lent. Illustration by Judy Martin    This Sunday is the date most Christians — but by no means all Christians…

  • Senior Menus

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $3.13. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, March 28 — Grape juice, eggplant rollatini,…

  • Marketers learn to compete in new arenas

    The buying power of cultural subgroups is staggering. By: George Frey    Every day the presence of the Spanish language is noted in places where it never used to be heard or seen. In grocery and retail stores, explaining goods and services and it’s now spoken widely in communities across the nation. That’s because Hispanics are…

  • Legislator’s election a sign of ethnic growth

    Updendra Chivukula is the first Indian-American to serve in the state Legislature. By: Jennifer Potash    On Jan. 8, Franklin Township resident Updendra Chivukula was sworn in as a member of the New Jersey Assembly. Two days later, the event was reported in every newspaper in India, where the assemblyman was born.    "I think (the international…

  • PU men’s lax falls before packed house

    Record 5,475 see Orangemen hand Tigers third loss of season By: Bob Nuse    Despite three losses in their first four games of the season, the Princeton University men’s lacrosse team still feels like it can get to where it wants to be by the end of the season.    This year, like every other, that means…

  • Hun softball wants to end ‘unfinished business’

    Fares among seniors looking for title, season to remember By: Justin Feil    For all of the thrills that came with winning a school record 17 games last season, it is the pain of losing in the finals of both the Mercer County Tournament and the Prep A states that the Hun School softball team remembers…