Category: archives

  • Scholarship created with the Farber family in mind

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Two scholarships honoring Lee Farber, who just finished eight years on the Township Council this month, and her late husband have been established by the couple’s children at Johns Hopkins University — with a bipartrisan political twist.    The Leonora and Wallace Farber Fellowship Fund, that will be endowed permanently to…

  • Personal finance practices reflect economy’s state

    ECONOMIC CLIMATE: Even though many outward signs indicate the local economy has been somewhat distant from the recession, the status of personal finances show otherwise. By: Chris Karmiol    The downtrodden state of the American economy is evident in multibillion dollar energy trading corporations going bankrupt, automotive plants closing doors and Alan Greenspan cutting short-term interest…

  • Safety, maintenance need more attention

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    An article about a proposed refrendum for a tort immunity clause written by Bob Hudak (chairman of the Twin Rivers Budget Committee and a board member) written in the December issue of Twin Rivers Today must be addressed because it obscures the problems and offers no solution to…

  • Realtors predict slowdown in home price increases

    Prices in many New Jersey communities already leveling off    Current and future homeowners who are carefully watching the real estate market and trying to predict where it is heading should keep an eye on both the unemployment and mortgage interest rates, both of which tend to foreshadow the real estate market. Looking at past trends,…

  • Ten years of the Bard at Peddie

    These Mortalsby Players, a Shakespeare production group at The Peddie School, will celebrate their 10th year this weekend by going back to where it all started — ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Matt Corica, sick with a cold, showed up anyway. Clutching his hammer, the boy who played Quince did what…

  • Court lets deer harvest proceed

    After the last court appeal was denied, 31 deer were killed in two days. By: David Campbell    Princeton Township cleared its last immediate legal hurdle this week when lawyers seeking to halt its deer-management plan were denied their last appeal permitted in the state Appellate Division.    The township began killing deer Tuesday and in two…

  • Sister school in Japan bestows gift on Stuart

       Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart was the recent recipient of a special peace gift sent by its sister school in Tokyo, Japan.    The gift was presented by Headmistress Frances de la Chapelle at the New Year’s prayer service.    The "senba zuru," or thousand cranes, is a symbol of peace and healing. The…

  • Howard L. Watlington

       HURT, Va. — Howard L. Watlington, 87, died Dec. 30 at the Masonic Home in Burlington.    Born in Pittsylvania County he was a Princeton Junction, N.J., resident before moving to Hurt in 1979.    He owned Howard’s Luncheonette in Princeton Junction from 1961 to 1978 and was a member of Princeton Lodge 38 F&AM.    Son of…

  • Peddie coasts to easy victory

    GIRLS BASKETBALL: Even though the victory was never in doubt, Sean Casey was still disappointed in the Falcons’ effort vs. Lawrenceville. By: Neil Hay    When they scored 23 points in the first quarter, it seemed that the Peddie girls basketball team would go on to put together a flawless performance, one that would draw positive…