Category: archives

  • Hillsborough girls use summer league to hone hoop skills

    Still undefeated at middle of season By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High girls haven’t really been pushed in summer league play at Ann Van Middlesworth Park, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.    While the competition level hasn’t been great, the league has given the girls a chance to work on their game. It’s also…

  • Police chief looks back at a decade of change

    By:Amanda Bok    When Chief Harry Kleinkauf came to Cranbury in 1970, the town consisted mainly of farmland and pastures.    Cranbury was small then and so was the police department.    "We had five officers," the chief said.    But Cranbury was bigger than Hightstown, where Chief Kleinkauf began his career as a police officer in 1966.    "(Cranbury)…

  • New York art scene comes to Monroe

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — Robert Friedman, a lifelong resident of New York City and a staff member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, brought the city, as seen by a variety of artists, to the township .    Mr. Friedman found an appreciative audienceJuly 24, including many former New Yorkers, at the Monroe Senior Center where…

  • Legion team set tone for next summer

    Van Cleef looks ahead after near-.500 year By: Rudy Brandl    Jack Van Cleef is hoping this summer’s near-.500 season serves as a good omen for the Hillsborough American Legion baseball team.    The team, comprised mainly of 17-year-olds, finished the summer with a 12-16-1 record. Competing on the Junior Legion level two years ago, the boys…

  • Rapid response

    A day in the life of the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. By: Regina Tan    Wednesday, July 17.    Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, 237 N. Harrison St.    10:45 a.m.: Report of a gas leak in a building on Chambers Street.    Frank Setnicky — one of the two full-time crew members at the Princeton…

  • IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Dodging bombs and staying together in Hungary

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — As a child living in Hungary during World War II, Joe Homoki remembers what it was like to be on the receiving end of American and British air force bombings.    Mr. Homoki, a resident of the United States since 1951, a U.S. Army veteran and currently president of the Monroe Township…

  • Give us fair treatment

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    In response to the unsigned and incomplete article that appeared on the front page of the July 2001 edition of Twin Rivers Today, I must say that if the American Civil Liberties Union finds our complaint to have merit, then the Twin Rivers Homeowners Association must either change…

  • Friends bid farewell to longtime resident

    Halchen Zingg, 93, died July 11 after a lengthy illness. By:Amanda Bok    "Your love of life is contagious, and I caught it," said Allen Zingg.    Mr. Zingg read from a card he sent his mother for Mother’s Day during a memorial service for her. But the words summarized the way many felt about one of…

  • Emily Glickman

       Emily Glickman, 70, of Cranbury, died Monday at her home.    Born in Manhattan, N.Y., she lived in East Windsor for 10 years before moving to Cranbury in 1983.    Ms. Glickman was an active facilitator with the Child Assault Prevention Program, Middlesex County Chapter. She visited schools and presented programs for the past 15 years.    She…