Category: archives

  • HHS freshman hockey notches 14-1-1 season

    They didn’t like to practice. They didn’t like hot weather. It did not even look like there would be enough players for a team. By:Neil Hay        From these unconventional beginnings, however, we present the 2000 Hightstown freshmen field hockey team, one of the best squads ever produced.    Except for two years in the early…

  • Position filled … before enabling law passed

    By: Mark Moffa        HIGHTSTOWN – The Borough Council this week appointed a new deputy municipal court administrator – just after introducing a change to borough laws allowing it to make such an appointment.    "We had the need to appoint a deputy municipal court administrator," said Candace Gallagher, borough clerk. "The mayor and council needed…

  • Cranbury mourns Dr. Tudor, veterinarian, town servant

    By: Sara Peters    The Cranbury community is saying goodbye to a devoted doctor, scholar and servant of the community.    Dr. David Tudor, 82, a longtime veterinarian, died Nov. 17 at Hartwyck at Oaktree Nursing Home in Edison.    “He was a wonderful husband and a wonderful father,” said Emily, his wife of 59 years. “He never…

  • Amtrak schedule change anything but minor

    Many forced to take slower ‘milk run’ line from Philadelphia to Princeton Junction By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – Princeton Junction commuters call it the "milk run." It’s the SEPTA local out of 30th Street Station in Philadelphia with a changeover at Trenton to an NJ Transit train to make the stop at Princeton…

  • Anna Fenity

    By:Staff    PLAINSBORO – Anna H. Fenity, 90, died Nov. 18 at the Hamilton Continuing Care Center.    Born in East Windsor, she was a lifelong Hightstown and Plainsboro area resident.    She worked with Unexcelled Manufacturing Co., Cranbury, during World War II.    She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Plainsboro and Keenagers of West…

  • Madeline DeMauro

    By: Staff    HAMILTON – Madeline LoRusso DeMauro, 71, died Nov. 16 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she was a longtime New Milford resident before moving to Hamilton several years ago.    Daughter of the late Pasquale and Angela Colavito LoRusso and sister of the late Lillian Davoli, Saveria…

  • Theresa Murena

    By:    Theresa Murena, 80, of Monroe, died Nov. 16 at the Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Blandburg, Pa., she lived in Elmont, N.Y. before moving to the Ponds in Monroe in 1995. She was a communicant of Nativity of Our Lord R.C. Church, Monroe.    She is survived by her husband, John; two daughters, Catherine…

  • Local student shows he got (tennis) game

    East Windsor youth is nationally rankedfollowing play in Georgia tournament By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – Though East Windsor may not be a hotbed for younger tennis players, Christopher Rosensteel of Woodside Avenue has excelled in the sport.    This year, he was recognized as one of the top 16 9-year-old players in the nation…

  • QUICK PICKS

    By: Staff Christmas parade    The Ladies Auxiliary of Hightstown Engine Co. 1 will sponsor its annual Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony at 5:30 this evening. The parade will start at Hightstown High School on Leshin Lane, will proceed downtown and end at the firehouse, where Santa will pull the switch to turn on the…