Category: archives

  • PHASE THREE: Finding solace in solitude

    By:Arnold Bornstein    There is a difference between being alone and being lonely, assuming that it’s your choice to be alone. I was reminded about the joys of chosen solitude by a man named Mike Piazza.    "I think you really have a way of relating well to other people when you know yourself, spending time alone,"…

  • Red-hot Raider golfers cool off at county tourney

    Berger’s 82 leads team By: John Beisser        After dropping its first two golf matches of the season, Hillsborough High has now reeled off 10 consecutive wins and has qualified for the state tournament following victories over North Brunswick, Montgomery, Franklin and Voorhees.    But this will be a telling week for the Raiders as Hillsborough…

  • ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’

    THEATER REVIEW: Bucks County Playhouse will have you howling in pure delight and swallowing a lump in your throat with this production. By:Stuart Duncan    When You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brow opened in early March of 1967, Walter Kerr of The N.Y. Herald Tribune did something he had never done before and would never do…

  • A ‘yes’ vote for top-quality school facilities

    PACKET EDITORIAL, May 4 By: Packet Editorial    From the outside, Princeton High School has as impressive a facade as any secondary school in the country. Its distinctive tower and stately grounds give it the feel more of an exclusive private college than a public high school.    On the inside, however, Princeton High School is a…

  • Cranbury high-schooler keeps cars fine-tuned

    Brian Davidson won first prize in the New Jersey Collision Repair Technology competition at the New Jersey Skills USA-VICA conference in Somerset County. By:Casha Caponegro        When Brian Davidson was 10 years old, he performed his first brake job on his mother’s automobile. Even at that young age, he knew that he wanted to work…

  • Elizabethtown deems water OK to drink

    The boil water advisory has been put on ice. By: Jeff Milgram    Put away the bottled water and don’t be afraid to drink a cup of coffee or a soda with ice.    It’s perfectly fine to drink water straight out of the tap, according to The Elizabethtown Water Co., which lifted its two-day boil-water advisory…

  • Eleanor Eleniewski

    Eleanor Blanchard Eleniewski, 89, died Monday at Maine Medical Center, Portland. Born in Hopewell, she lived in Pennington, southern New York state and Pennsylvania before moving to Portland eight years ago. Mrs. Eleniewski worked with the Alumni Fund Office of Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College many years. She graduated from Rider College. Daughter of the late Cecil…

  • Board selects newest member

    The school board chose Mr. Ransegnola over Ken Griffin and Nina Visconti-Phillips to fill the one-year vacancy on the board after interviewing the three in closed session Tuesday evening. By:Brian Shappell        Frank Ransegnola has won a place on the Board of Education — albeit, a little later than planned.    The school board chose Mr.…

  • MHS track athletes look to sizzle in May

    Gilmore sparks four-meet streak By: Rudy Brandl        The Manville High boys’ track and field team is getting back to full strength and it showed in last week’s dual meet victories over Roselle Park and Bound Brook.    Manville’s home wins over the two rival Valley Division schools ran the team’s win streak to four straight…