Category: archives

  • Teacher splashes color at Hightstown High

    Bill Plank, an art teacher at Hightstown High School, has started work on a mural that will add some color to the off-yellow walls of the school. By: Chris Karmiol    The walls of the corridors of Hightstown High School, painted your average industrial off-yellow, are to the imagination what unflavored Jell-O might be to the…

  • New exhibit has a local appeal

    Watercolorists Unlimited, a group of artists including two Cranbury residents, has set up a show of 18 works, called "American Barns," in the Gourgard Gallery in Cranbury Town Hall. By: Casha Caponegro The rural beauty of barns is the subject of the newest exhibit at Town Hall’s Gourgaud Gallery.    Watercolorists Unlimited, a group of 20…

  • Knights have big ‘Shu’ to fill

    Senior helps WW-PN to first state boys’ swim win By: Justin Feil    With the graduation of the first senior class at West Windsor-Plainsboro High North, Knights boys’ swimming head coach Cheryl Reca says that there are going to be some big shoes to fill. One of them happens to be homonym Will Shu, the youngest…

  • Monroe gets state help to pay for road extension

    Road will provide another route from Matchaponix Road to Main Street in Spotswood and ease traffic on Spotswood-Englishtown Road. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — The township will use $250,000 in state transportation aid for an extension to Spotswood-Gravel Hill Road.    Plans are to construct a half-mile section of roadway to connect Spotswood-Gravel Hill Road and…

  • Harold Gould

       Harold K. Gould, 49, of Lawrence died Monday, Feb. 11, at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton.    A lifelong area resident, he graduated from Lawrence High School and attended Trenton State College, now The College of New Jersey, in Ewing.    He worked with Super G Supermarkets.    Son of the late Allison and Annie Gould,…

  • Kreps drug program receives honor

    The KIKS program stresses a peer-to-peer system of communication to resist drug abuse, smoking, drinking and inappropriate sexual behavior. By: Chris Karmiol    A drug prevention program implemented by the Melvin H. Kreps School, Kids Intervention With Kids in Schools, KIKS, has been recognized by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention as a state-of-the-art and exemplary…

  • Cultural adjustment

    Students in the Hightstown High School ESL program face the difficult task of adjusting to a new culture while planning for college or a career. By: Chris Karmiol Note: This is the third in a series chronicling the English as a second language program in the East Windsor Regional School District at various grade levels.…

  • Pratt’s idea makes sense for the future

    EDITORIAL: A law to require property owners to maintain sidewalks abutting their property already exists in Hightstown, but it would be wise to hold off on that plan on Stockton Street.    The reaction of the Borough Council to the estimates to repair the sidewalks, curbs and driveway aprons along Stockton Street can be best summed…

  • Hightstown clinches Valley Division title

    BOYS BASKETBALL: The Rams will hoist their first banner to the rafters in eight years after beating Princeton 56-46 last week. By: Neil Hay    For those who are unimpressed with the style of play currently in use by the Hightstown High boys’ basketball team, all coach Don Hess and his players have to do is…